Faithful Prayer Warriors Needed!

Faithful Prayer Warriors Needed!

First Day Report on the Baseball Camp for Jesus in Vechta, Germany

For the blog post today, I am sharing Mike Garst’s email report on the first day (Monday) at the Vechta, Germany Baseball Camp for Jesus! Having good prayer coverage is so important for ministry opportunities such as this, so I want to give you an update so you can join with me in praying for Mike and his team. God has been doing some mighty things, and the camp is off to a great start. Remember that they are about seven hours ahead of us so pray as you go to bed for the camp for the next day. It will begin while you are sleeping. When you wake up, pray for the afternoon and especially the evening worship and ministry opportunities for that day. If you have been keeping up with the reports, you will see that they are having record attendance for each of the camps. This is so encouraging, and we want to see God move in power so that hearts and lives are transformed for His Kingdom and His glory. Thank you for reading, and especially thank you to those who will take the time to pray over the course of this week!

FROM MIKE:

Dear Faithful Prayer Warriors,

Thanks again for all your prayers. Kameron Bolding arrived early yesterday evening as scheduled, got a good night’s sleep after being up over thirty straight hours and had a good first day, along with the rest of us. This BBC will also, like the other two camps, be the largest camp we’ve had at this site with about 90 participants. We have ten teams, with one of them being a cheerleading team for the first time. And that team is full and already, like some of the other teams, asking some good questions about faith.

Sunday was another good day of preparation, plus we had the largest number of people at the worship service at this Camp site. Our oldest American, Charlie (76) preached a good sermon on encouragement.

The biggest challenge we have through tomorrow is the hotter than normal temperatures and lots of sun. The high temperature today was 86 and tomorrow will be a high 90, with a chance of storms rolling in late in the day. The forecast after that is 82 Wednesday (with some chance of rain), 74 Thursday and 72 Friday. I’m looking forward to seeing and experiencing what God will do through the people who are either participating or helping to lead the Camp.

Please continue to pray for our original prayer requests, which include:

1) The American and German leaders would quickly unite their hearts and minds so they can share and demonstrate the love of Christ in a way that shows all the participants and helpers that they deeply care for each other and for all the people involved in the camp.

2) That the leaders who will be preaching, teaching, and sharing their testimonies would be ready and willing to boldly talk about their faith and how it has changed their priorities and lives.

3) That all the participants who are being drawn to the Lord for the first time would take that step of faith to follow Jesus and get connected with a believer who can mentor them on the journey.

4) That all the participants who have started the faith journey would take the next step to grow in their faith and love by connecting with other believers so they can encourage each other.

5) That God would provide favorable weather for playing baseball.

6) That the Americans would develop lasting relationships with new host home families. And that the Americans who will be staying with a host home family they’ve stayed with before would continue to strengthen that relationship.

7) That all the German and American leaders would do their part to stay connected to their team members and continue to deepen their relationship with them after the baseball camps are over.