August
2012
Dear Pastors and praying friends,
We would like to share with you the latest development in
our deputation process. In May, we had
a conversation through email with a German pastor. In that conversation he told us that the
church has been praying about the possibility of asking us to consider joining one
of two teams from their church. Each
team would be made up of two German couples and an American missionary
couple. The goal for these teams is to
plant churches within a two hour radius of their home church, and they would like to
launch these teams within three years.
After considering this possibility and praying about the
opportunity, we are interested to see if God opens this door as we
anticipate ministering in Germany for a number of reasons. First, this opportunity lines up with our
ministry objective of forming church planting teams with Germans. We believe that Germans need to take the
driver’s seat in church planting in order to reach their country for
Christ. Forming teams with missionaries
and Germans affords that opportunity for Germans to be in leadership from the
groundwork of church planting. Second,
the timing of a desired launch in three years will work perfectly with us, if
we are able to get to Germany by the end of the year. We would be enrolled in language school at
the beginning of next year, and Lord willing, be finished with language
training in time to launch with one of these teams.
The timing of us leaving for Germany is crucial for a number
of reasons. The first, mentioned above,
is getting through language training in time for the launch of these church
planting teams. The second, being just
as crucial, is a deadline set by our sending church. We are currently at 53.7% of the support we
need to live and minister in Germany. We
need to have 100% of our support committed by October 1, 2012. This means we need an additional $2,714.00 in
monthly support by October 1. From a
human perspective this could seem like a mountainous need, but our God is in
the business of moving mountains when his people pray in faith.
Would you join us in praying that God would provide the
remaining support we need by October 1, 2012?
Would you seriously consider whether you are able to assist
us in meeting this needed support.
Sincerely,
Jim and
Sarah Engle
Baptist Mid-Missions
Appointees
to Germany
