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July/August ’09 Newsletter Address: 101 Stevens Rd., Greenback, TN 37742
Temporary Phone: (865) 856-7407 · E-mail: [email protected]
Dear Family and Friends,
We wanted to share with you highlights of the
past couple of months; in addition, news from Ireland
nd a few prayer concerns.
Baby News
We have some very exciting news – Our once family of two has now
increased to three. We’re expecting
a baby! Darleen is 11-weeks a long
and is doing very well. Last week
we had the privilege of hearing our baby’s heartbeat for
he first time. He/she is doing well! (Our due date is
an. 16th
, 2010.)
BMW Visit
Biblical Ministries Worldwide is a church-planting
mission organization that serves independent churches.
BMW missionaries began church planting in Ireland in
he mid 1970’s. The first of this month, we traveled to
Georgia to meet with the field director and talk aboutpossibly joining their team. We were blessed by
BMW’s kind hospitality and encouragement to us.
We are prayerfully considering joining the BMW
eam and would appreciate your prayers for wisdom
nd guidance.
Goals for 2009:
God still continues to press on our hearts the vision
to deepen our walk with Him, raise a godly family, an
serve Him on the mission field. Taking pen in hand, w
wrote out what we feel God wants us to make every
effort to accomplish this year.
Of primary importance, we have committed this fir
year solely to our marriage. Our aim is to seek Christ
first in our relationship, seek to better understand each
other and strength our relationship, and grow in a Chr
saturated love.
Second, prepare for our little one!
Third, continue studies on the Irish culture and
pursue missionary training workshops, as the Lord
allows.Lastly, continue researching ideas for a mission
organization to team up with in Ireland.
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Ireland Prayer Target
Please join us and pray for the
ounty of
Cork.Pray for
he Irish
Church tohavepurpose
nd vision
n raisingup
believers committed to holiness in
Christ. Also, pray for theBellincollig church, located at the
heart of Cork County.
News From Ireland
Hi, my name is John Mahony and’m a
Christianiving
downnear theouth
oast of
reland in
town called Ballincollig! I was bornCatholic like most people in
reland, but I got saved at the age of
0! On an island of about 6 millioneople, I am blessed to be part of one
of the 20 or so Bible-believingBaptist churches. Compare this to the
tate of Indiana which is similar in
ize to Ireland. There is lots of roomor more churches to be planted here!
Condition of the field and the need
With the ongoing scandals of abusey members of the Catholic clergy inreland, materialism and also the
urrent trend of atheism because of cience falsely so-called, manyeople have no interest whatsoever in
discussing anything “religious”. It is
lso considered patriotic to beCatholic because of our historictruggles with Britain! Satan
certainly uses every angle to blindthe minds of them which believe not(2Cor. 4:4).
Salvation
In Ireland, trusting Christ as your personal Saviour is very costly. As it
says in Luke 12:51-53, a new
Christian is immediately thrust into avery difficult situation and is trulytested if their conversion wasgenuine. New believers must learn
fast to trust in the sufficiency of
God’s grace, the need to study tohave answers for their spouses,children and others, and also not to
neglect the meeting together as achurch whenever the doors are open
for preaching, edification andexhortation!
Current work in the Ballincollig
church
I am currently working under Pastor
Craig Ledbetter. We average 80-90 people on a Sunday morning and weare considered one of the bigger churches here (just to give you an
idea compared to America). We arealso blessed to have two other missionaries, the Eberly’s and the
Hamilton’s helping us right now.I am working with the teenagers,
discipling them, and praying thatGod would cast down strongholdsthrough His word (2Cor. 10:4-5). My
Dad runs a Reformer’s Unanimousministry which reaches out to those
overcome with addictions. We alsohost a nationwide Men’s Retreat and
Youth Camp to reach out and affectthe whole country for Christ.This is the work and the fruit is lives
transformed by the gospel of JesusChrist, broken marriages reconciled,
whole families saved, teens and kidsliving for Christ, the addictedovercoming by the blood of the
Lamb, precious souls growing in
grace and in the knowledge of JesusChrist. (2Pet. 3:18)
Even though Ireland is just asmodern as America, and probabas far gone morally as the rest o
Europe, the country still despera
needs the Saviour. Not the false of Catholicism who is still dyingthe cross, not the god of money,
the god of science, but the only
who can save to the uttermost anstill does!Matt. 9:37-38; Acts 26:18; 1The5:25
We thank John for his report on
current work in Ballincollig. Lsummer ’08 (and summer ‘05)
Kevin had the privilege of visit
Ballincollig Bible Church.
“Má thugann tú taitneam
don Tiarna tabharfaidh
seisean duit mian do chro(Salm 37 [36]:4, Irish Bi
“Delight thyself also in
Lord, and He shall give thedesires of thine heart” (P
37:4).
In the Service of our Lord,
Cork
John with Pastor Ledbetter’s son.
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