An Exciting Update!

God is working so powerfully and wonderfully! Keep praying!!!!

Dear Prayer Warriors,

Thank you again for your faithfulness in praying for the first Baseball Camp for Jesus here in Aurich, Germany. We had the most incredible day ever during the 18 years of this camp. I’m not sure we’ve ever had two baptisms on the same day at the camp, so having four baptisms on the same day with three participants and one leader far surpassed our expectations.

I had shared in my original prayer requests that we knew we would have at least two baptisms. But today we had two more participants say they wanted to be baptized, and they asked me to do their baptisms. What a blessing it was to baptize three people and help baptize the fourth. Plus, there was a 79-year-old lady from one of the churches we work with who wanted to be baptized. So, I helped with that baptism since I was already in the water. So we had a total of five baptisms, praise the Lord!

And it appears that we will have more and more baptisms in the coming years based on some of the conversations we are having. Two of the younger participants on my youth team said they trusted God 100%, but weren’t ready to be baptized.

To top everything off, we had a perfect day of weather with a high temperature of 70 degrees and clouds most of the day. Wednesday was a similar day, but we had lots of sun and needed to encourage everyone to put on sunscreen. Tomorrow the high temperature will be about 76 degrees with sun most of the day. So we’ll need to use some sunscreen.

The American family with a dad and his two teenager daughters were all finally at the Camp today as well, praise the Lord! The stomach bug kept all of them out on Tuesday, and only one daughter came on Wednesday. So it’s been a tough week for them, but we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and have been called according to His purposes.

We also had three people from Texas and one from Arkansas arrive early in the afternoon to spend some time visiting the Aurich Baseball Camp before traveling with us to the Osterholz-Scharmbeck Camp next week.

Please continue to pray that we can encourage others on our final day tomorrow to take the step of faith that will enable them to put all their trust in Christ the Son and God the Father, so they can experience the peace and joy that is only possible with Jesus living in you.

In Christ’s perfect peace and highest joy,

Mike