New Shepherd Caring for the Flock

Three Rivers Community Church in San Marcos, TX, voted to call Adam Schindler as their Pastor.

Please pray for the transition for Adam and Stefanie Schlindler and TRCC. Ask God to grant them His favor.

Knocking on Neighbor's Doors

Sometimes all it takes for a neighbor to visit your church is to ask them. Knowing this, Kenyon Ross and others from Shades Valley Community Church in Birmingham, AL, are knocking on neighbor's doors to invite them to visit. As Kenyon stated recently:

(For) one couple the Lord's timing was just right, they've really needed a church community to be involved in--be praying for this couple, her sister passed away this summer and she said that they haven't had a close group of Christians to walk through that with.

To encourage others to get involved, Kenyon's mapping their progress. In the picture, the orange dots represent the homes they've visited and the green dots are where they've had the opportunity to share the gospel. Praise God!

Pray for more green dots (and neighbor visitors) for Shades Valley Community Church. If you'd like more information to start a similar effort at your church, email Kenyon Ross.

Will Preach for Bananas

At a recent fundraising event for FIRSTCHOICE Clinic, Matthew St. John, teaching pastor of Bethel EFC, Fargo, ND, was awarded the coveted, "Will Preach for Bananas" hat for being the pastor who secured the largest number of sponsors for the LIFE WALK.

Five of Bethel EFC's pastors, (including Pastor Matthew), along with many Bethel EFC members raised $6000 for FIRSTCHOICE Clinic, a caring and confidential clinic offering pregnancy options including post abortion support and services.

What local service or compassion agency is your church supporting?

To the Fields

EFCA EQUIP is hosting a Prefield Training (PT Live) event for new missionaries in Minneapolis to encourage and teach 22 new missionaries (15 adults and 7 children) who will be leaving for the field in the next 6 months. The new missionaries will be deployed to Japan, Indonesia, France, Italy, Congo, Costa Rica, Ukraine and Hungary.

Pray for these new disciples preparing to reach out to their respective fields--white for harvest.

Quilting: Piecing the Borders

A few years ago a group from Grace EFC, Jefferson City, Missouri hosted a week-long quilting camp which birthed a growing, Christ-focused, evangelistic quilting ministry in Hungary. With a vision for reaching Hungarian ladies with the gospel, this ministry has grown into 12 clubs throughout Hungary and Ukraine.

Hungarian women experience a sense of community and encouragement in the quilting clubs (one of the biggest needs in Eastern Europe today).In addition to having an outlet to create beauty for their lives, quilting clubs teach a skill and they include an evangelistic message. Churches in the U.S. partner to teach, provide supplies, share their testimonies and lend support as needed. In the past year, four to five ladies have accepted Christ at each quilting camp (totaling 12 new believers!) and five others rededicated their lives to the Lord.

The quilting club is just one of many ministries held at the Kelenföld Ministry Center (KMC) in Budapest, Hungary. Ten of the ministries at the KMC are led by Hungarians, including:

• KEGy (Kelenföld Evangelical Free Church)
• FEK (Youth at the Threshold of Life)
  
• Quilting club
  
• Bible school
  
• Free Saturday singles' group
  
• Film Club
  
• Apologia (apologetics for Hungary)
• Wycliffe-Hungary
  
• MEE (Hungarian Evangelical Free Church)
  
• Small group ministry
  
• Arts Café
  

Praise God for how He continues to bring many believers together for the sake of sharing the gospel!

Keys to Learning

Studying the persecuted church, the elementary program at First EFC Fullerton, CA, will be learning the "key" to helping the persecuted church is to pray. To unlock the student's potential, the teachers are looking for 1,000 keys--old/used/no longer needed metal keys, for a special craft project for the lesson.

Pray for all Sunday school teachers and their students and join FEFC's elementary classes in praying for the persecuted church.

Hungary for a Steer?

In Montana, God’s cows roam and ranchers raise calves that are then sold to support missionaries. Sporting a triangle brand with a cross on the top of it, the cows are part of the STEER Inc. brand.

Headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota. STEER facilitates a unique three-way partnership between donors, farmers or ranchers, and missions. A donor donates a cow, a farmer or rancher feeds and cares for it, and the proceeds from the sale of the calf each year goes to the designated mission.

If you, or someone you know is a farmer or rancher, there are cows immediately available at STEER Inc. for placement in support of EFCA ReachGlobal missionaries Brad and Kari Mullet who work in Hungary. STEER money to missions!

For more information read the full story at Brad Mullet's blog:
http://mulletsinhungary.blogspot.com/2009/10/magyar-mullets-september-2009.html