Hello Friends,Shanna and I couldn’t possibly be more encouraged and excited to share with you that this past weekend, Faith Community Church (IPC) in Prague, Czech Republic (www.faithcommunity.cz), voted to extend a call for me to serve as their interim pastor, which we've enthusiastically accepted pending the approval of our mission agency Mission to the World. As Faith Community Church continues to be a mission church that is not yet fully self-supporting, we will continue to be faith based missionaries with Mission to the World while serving in this new role. We're still in need of your generous gifts and prayers on our behalf in order to serve in this capacity in the capital and largest city of the most atheist country in the world, Czech Republic.
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| On Prague's Famous Charles Bridge |
Known as “The Heart of Europe” and birthplace of the Protestant Reformation, today only 0.76% of Czechs are Bible believing Christians, while 78.4% describe themselves as atheists, a higher percentage than North Korea (71.3%), Japan (60%), and China (51.8%). The number of Gospel-centered churches in Prague, a city of 2.7 million people, can be counted on just two hands. It is absolutely vital that the ministry and witness of Faith Community Church and their church plant DoSlova continue for the future of the Gospel in Czech Republic, Europe, and the western world. We’ve long prayed for and dreamed of a day when we would get to serve the Lord where there is little to no indigenous Gospel witness, and now God is calling us to just such a place.Over the next 40 days, we'll finish out our roles and responsibilities here in London at IPC-Ealing where we've been serving for the past 2 1/2 years in outreach to internationals, pack up our home, and then return to the United States to visit with current and potential donors and partnering churches about this new role, and we’d love to see you and share more with you about how the Lord is at work in our lives and in Europe. We will not be able to begin our work with Faith Community Church and move to Prague until this much needed financial support for our move and day-to-day ministry there is raised.
Would you pray with us for this financial need to be raised as quickly as possible for the good of our family and the church in Prague so that we can get to them as quickly as possible and begin serving them? After surviving for the past year without a pastor, they are quite eager for us to arrive as soon as possible, as you might imagine.
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Prague is nicknamed "The Heart of
Europe".
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Lord willing, it would be best for us to arrive in Prague to begin serving the church there in August, and so that our children can begin school there uninterrupted after the summer break, but we are trusting that the Lord knows what timing is best for our family's arrival in Prague and what would be best for Faith Commmunity Church. Gifts toward this need may be given through the MTW website at www.mtw.org/bean.
Warmest regards from London,
Dawson, Shanna, Joshua, Caleb, and Mary Bean
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