Newsletter from
Larry & Jean Taylor

June 2008

Dear Friends,

      June 1, the community decided to block our parking area and have a flea market. We have tried to get the community to do this on a Saturday morning instead of Sunday but that did not happen. Thus, we rented the space in front of our building and encouraged our people to bring their items to sell and trade. We had a table for clothes and cast off things. We had a table which gave away popcorn for free. We had a table to sign up for scrapbooking. This was an idea of my wife and daughter. We are having the first scrapbooking night June 12th. Jean and Rebecca had some examples of this craft on the table. They had 12 ladies who have nothing to do with the church give us their contact information. We are praying that God will do good things with this outreach. We are trying to widen our horizons with the scrapbooking class. We also did face painting at the flea market. Deborah did the face painting and did an excellent job. (She is home from BBC for the summer.) The neat thing about the face painting was that Monique one of our elderly ladies sat at that table and witnessed to all the parents who were waiting for their child to have their faces painted. She handed out personally hundreds of tracts and invitations to the church. Rebecca did a puppet play for the children. We had a few come to watch that. We also offered the use of our restrooms to the community. We had a few hundred people walk in our building where we had people standing, sitting and drinking coffee who could then converse and witness to them. It was a sunny day and our people stayed and stayed. We pray to reap a harvest of souls from this effort by our people.
     June 9 was father’s day in Belgium. We had a good group of Dads for the day. It was also western day at the church and we had several visitors come to the services. Then we did good Baptist tradition, we had dinner on the grounds with a barbeque. It was a good day. We had good time in witnessing to the visitors explaining the gospel to them. Pray for Marie Theresa and Francis to be saved. Jean Pierre was here also and is in need of salvation. There was a couple who promised to come and it was disappointing for the wives and children when they did not attend.
          Gasoline is $9.46 a gallon. Inflation is above 5%. The Forbes Tax Misery Index places Holland as #2 and Belgium as #3 with France as #1 as the top three who impose the harshest taxes out of sixty-six countries in the world (The United States is #49.) Food prices have risen 13% and are now nowhere higher in Europe than in Belgium. These are just a few of the recent headlines from articles in our national newspapers. If our future ministry here were dependent on what the economy is doing we would certainly have reason for doubt and fear. It is obvious that our purchasing power has now declined 40% when just looking at Dollar-Euro exchange rates. Let us throw our hands up, panic and run circles scream the sky is falling. However, I believe the God of Heaven is still running things around here and we need to put our life in his hands.

Your missionary,
Larry Taylor
P.S. Please keep us in your prayers as we take a short furlough in October and November that we can gain some need support. I will be on the east coast and have a few dates left if you would like a report.
LT

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