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Dear friends:
We are about to head out
(Marty, Jeanette, Ellie) to the airport to board a plane for Europe.
Please do pray for us during these three weeks of interacting with
many BCM ministry fields and leaders we have not yet met. Our
itinerary:
1. We will first be traveling to
Madrid, then to Mision Betel, BCM's beautiful and historic Christian
camp/retreat center in the middle of the old palace grounds in
Segovia.
2. Next stop will be Centre 7 in
Toulouse, France, the focal point of BCM's ministry in France and
another outreach/retreat center in the city itself with many
different ministries.
3. From Toulouse, we will be
heading via Brussels to Centro Maranatha near Rimini, Italy,
Christian camp/retreat center up in the mountains of central Italy.
4. From Italy we travel to Bybel
Club Centrum 'De Herikon' in the Netherlands where their children's
summer camp will be in full swing.
5. Our last stop will be Germany,
where we will be staying with our BCM Western Europe director, Rev.
Dale Sigafoos, and visiting the church they have been involved in
planting as well as other ministries. In each country, Jeanette will
be involved in video, photo, and ministry interviews for the media
department and BCM World magazine while
Marty will be meeting with ministry leadership. Ellie plans to take
in as many sight-seeing opportunities as possible (okay, we may join
her!). We will be on email and can be contacted through BCM
headquarters in case of any emergency (717-859-6404).
Meantime, on the home front, our
son Josh moved home this last week from Wyoming. He will be watching
our home while we are gone and is currently job-hunting. Today is
his 21st birthday, which he will be spending alone as we leave at
noon, so if you know him and would like to wish him happy birthday,
drop him a call (717-626-8752 is our home phone #). Our youngest
son, Steve, meanwhile, has received his A-school assignment with the
Navy. He is training as a medic and really enjoying himself. Now
that he is out of bootcamp, his contact info is the following:
Sr. Windle, Stephen Neal,
Naval Hospital Corps School
SDCA, 601 D Street,
Great Lakes, IL
60088. If you wrote him during bootcamp and didn't hear
back, rest assured he was greatly pleased and surprised at all
the mail he got; picking up pen and paper to answer is another
matter.
Again, thank you for standing
with us in prayer. Please pray that this trip to Europe will be
a time of real encouragement for our ministry leaders as well
as strategic planning and sharing. And we would appreciate your
continued prayer for our 'out on their own' sons, that they
would walk godly lives and follow Christ's call on their future.
In the service of the King,
Marty and Jeanette Windle
BCM International
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