Emerson Swope

I thank the Lord for Gulnaia, a 30 year old Lithuanian mother of a Catholic background, had a Buddhist husband, and spoke very good English, who prayed to receive Christ with me as we were landing in Vilnius, Lithuania.

I'm thankful for the many new and renewed friendships developed among team members, Lithuanian and Belarusian Pastors, lay leaders, and translators.

I'm thankful for the gracious loving Lithuanian and Belarusian people and for being able to worship our Lord with them.

I'm thankful for the receptive sweet spirits, personal sacrifice, and the hunger of both Lithuanian and Belarusian people to become fully equipped disciples of Jesus and to serve Him through the local church as leaders.

I'm thankful for Eduadaras, a new believer, who enriched the Adult Small Group Leader's sessions in Kaunas, Lithuania by providing insights needed to reach unbelievers, like he had been, through small groups.

I'm thankful for the receptivity of the Lithuanian Pastors to a Small Group Strategy in their churches.

I'm especially joyful and thankful upon hearing the testimony of fruit that God has provided through Pastor Arturas Narbutas' emails telling how he had prayed for at least one small group and that his church, God's Grace Baptist Church, Kaunas, Lithuania, had voted to begin and had already started two Adult small group Bible Studies.

Joplin, Missouri