Jesse's Last few days in England

- We praise the Lord for His abundant mercy and grace towards us all! What a wonderful God, Who being infinite chooses to use finite beings, Who being perfect has chosen to redeem those who were imperfect. Let us all thank Him for Calvary!

- I will be flying back to Tennessee at 9:00 am Friday morning. It has been such a wonderful trip: Ramsey, England; Northern Ireland; Germany; France; Birmingham, England. The Lord has really proved Himself strong while we have traveled with the New Testament Church Pioneers. We thank Him for teaching us valuable lessons for our future ministries as well as giving us many new friendships that we can keep for eternity!

- Don't forget, this Pioneer trip is not over! Levi will be continuing on here in Birmingham until July 30th! Please continue to pray for him and follow his updates on the blog.

- We thank the Lord for all that he has allowed us to do these last few days. We have been involved in children's clubs, church services, street Evangelism, manual labour and so much more!

- We ask you to pray for a few more people who we have been able to give the Gospel to this last week. I met these three young men while in the Birmingham city center. I was able to give them all the Gospel, please pray that the Lord would convict them of their sin and show them their need of Christ! Their names are (from right to left) John, Matthew and Charlie. We have also given the Gospel to many people while out doing door-to-door visitation this last Saturday, please also pray for Robert, Lonnie and Jane as they have also been given the Gospel!

- Praise the Lord for all that He has done in these last few days and we look forward to seeing what He will do before this trip is through!

Great Blessings and Prayer Requests - England

- We have been thankful for all that the Lord has done since we have been in England. We have had the opportunity to do physical work at the chapel building as well as work in the many children's and teens programs, lead singing and go visiting. We had 42 young people at our last "Swords Club" (Bible club for young people aged 5-12).

- Today while we were out making some follow up visits near the church, we began speaking with a couple teen age girls. We began to give them the Gospel and before we were done another girl and two boys came and joined the group. We spent about an hour with them, giving the Gospel and answering questions. Near the end, the first two girls left, but the other three stuck around. Levi spoke with a young man named Jonathan (17 years old) and Jesse spoke with Lauren (15) and Chris (16). We could see signs of true Holy Spirit conviction on the faces of Jonathan and Chris as we spoke about the seriousness of sin and the severity of the deserved penalty. These young people do desire to have their sins forgiven and to have peace with God but they are still somewhat hesitant. Please pray that the Lord will continue to reveal Himself to them, convict them of their sin and bring them to a place of full repentance from sin and faith in Christ. Four of the Five young people were named Lizzy, Lauren, Chris and Jonathan.

- The Lord is doing great things through the faithful work of the Zenkers and the other Christian workers here. Families have been saved from their sins and lives have been changed. Please pray that the Lord will provide the finances for the purchase of a new building for the Crown College British Division as well as a Christian Heritage Center here in England.

From Germany to England

- We praise God for all that He has done in our hearts since our last update. We have gained many new friends here at Rhine River Baptist Church, too many to list really. These two young men are named Alex and Alem. They both faithfully attend the services of the church and are growing in the Lord. We thank the Lord for their encouragement and hope that we were a help and encouragement to them as well in the times that we spent together in fun and games as well as in conversation over the Word of God.

- Pastor Tom Lancaster and Bro. Mark Lancaster and their families as well as the many people of Rhine River Baptist Church (and a couple neighboring churches) opened their homes and their hearts to us while we were in Germany. We thank God for the encouragement they have been to us while laboring together and we hope that we have also encouraged many of them. We would like to thank you all for your loving kindness towards us.

John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- We have had the opportunity this last week to visit the beaches of Normandy (D-Day) with Pastor and Mrs. Tom Lancaster as well as a number of believers from other churches. We saw many places and heard many stories of heroism as we were reminded of the thousands who gave their lives throughout WWII purchasing our physical freedom.

- The Lord used this to remind us of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave His own life once and for all, purchasing our eternal freedom! What love (!!) that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”