Bound by the Spirit

“And now I am bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what awaits me, except that the Holy Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and suffering lie ahead. But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God." The Apostle Paul in Acts 20:22-24

Are we willing to move where the Lord wants us to go, not knowing what awaits us, even to the point of suffering? Do we know that our life's value comes from the Lord and the work He has for us? Are we actively working to tell others of God's wonderful grace by sharing the Gospel with them?

Haiti Relief Updates

Here's a link that Mission of Hope Haiti has created for on-going relief effort updates.

http://disasterrelief.mohhaiti.org/

Mexico Trip 2009

"I lay a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it."

"For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ." I Cor. 3:10,11

The BCC Mexico mission team has returned from the Aldama Mexico trip. Working with Way Of The Cross ministry out of Harlingen Texas, we completed a new church building in a village of Paso Hondo Mexico. The local pastor had started building the church and had the foundation and side walls up but ran out of resources about a year ago. WOTC helped identify the local pastors need and worked with the BCC team in planning and getting the needed supplies to the church building site. The BCC team installed a new roof, windows, doors, electrical and provided the money for the concrete floor. We ended the building project with a wonderful church dedication service. A chicken dinner followed the dedication service and then we passed out schools supplies, toys, hand knitted afghans, and bibles.

The materials used to finish the church building were purchased from BCC Global Outreach contributions. Thanks BCC for your Faith Promise giving to Global Outreach and for using Scrip, you were an important part of this trip. Based on the local culture, we were told that the people will consider BCC a very important part of the history of their church and that the people will not forget how we helped provide for their need.

We not only worked on the physical church, we also worked on the spiritual church. We went to several other villages sharing our testimonies and sharing the Gospel of Jesus. We saw many people come to the Lord.

We are very thankful for the opportunity that the Lord has given us in being part of this mission trip.

Urgent Prayer

Dear Prayer warriors

Kim is in the Impenetrable, (Wichi Indians) with our staff for a Castle leadership trip. One carload, coming to the Impenetrable from the province of Misiones was in a terrible car accident where two Castle kids died and the mother of one is barely hanging on. Leo, our strongest Castle leader in the whole nation, was also in the car, possibly the driver, is in shock (emotionally, not physically). The woman whose son was killed was a co-leader in the province.

We are all devastated, and far away from these precious people. We need a Divine intervention. Please pray with us.

Blessings,

Shari (for the Babcock family and all of King’s Castle Argentina )

Nicaragua

We are back from WOTC Nicaragua crusade. We were part of a very successful mission trip working with Nicaraguan pastors and youth sharing the Gospel with over 7,000 people receiving Christ as their Lord and Savior. These local young people that we worked with are so excited and passionate about sharing their faith. It was tremendously rewarding seeing God's people working together, both U.S. and Nicaraguan, in spreading the Gospel of our Lord. There were 20 Americans and 90 Nicaraguans that were split into 4 teams that ministered in the Leon area at schools and in remote villages.

At the airport in Managua for the return flight I ran unto an A.G. pastor from Pennsylvania and had a brief talk with him. He told me that his church has been going to Nicaragua several times during the year and they are also seeing a great harvest as well.

God is moving in a powerful way in Central America!

Life In These United States - Anderson Version

Why do American teenagers have 35 different sweatshirts?

Does it ever get hot in Minnesota?

What side of the bike path should I ride on in America, left or right?

What is a dime...is it ten cents or five?

Why do so many of the houses here look like a puzzle picture?

Do all the roads and intersections in America look the same?

Why don't my friends finish their food? Why do they think camp food is gross? Don't they know there are people in the world who go hungry every day?

Can we have Malai Kofta, buttered naan, and tandoori chicken for lunch instead of roast, mom???

These are some of the questions our kids have had these past few months as we have been re-learning what it means to live in America.

GETTING SETTLED: This last month has been one of "settling in" to life here. Praise God we were able to rent a townhouse not too far from where we lived during our last furlough. It was a long season of searching for housing options so we are really grateful to be settling now!!

After renting it, we had three days of mad rush garage saling! We literally went to about 45 garage sales in three days, and made about 15 separate trips to Target, but were able to completely furnish our new home in those few crazy days! Thanks to all who donated furniture, bikes, and lent us things to use for this time in the USA. It is SUCH a great blessing to be in our new house and to feel as if we can begin to rest and put down some temporary roots here. God is good.

The last few weeks have also included a Koerner family (Cindy's mom's side) reunion in Missouri, senior teen camp for Steffi, and a Minnesota Timberwolves Basketball Camp for Jeremy. Jenna continues to work on learning how to drive with dad each evening after dinner and is getting ready for North Central University. Todd and Cindy have enjoyed some games of tennis and have been busy unpacking stuff that was in storage as well as just setting up life here.

RENEWING OUR HEARTS: Our time in the USA is split up about 50/50. Half of our time we have set aside for rest, renewal and input into our own lives. We want to "fill up our tanks" and get ready for the next season God has for our lives and ministry. Next week we will attend a conference, and in September we fly to Canada for a ministers retreat. Please do pray that God will refill all the places we have given out and been depleted spiritually, physically or emotionally over the past four years. We know this time of reflection and rest is vital for our long term work in India.

RENEWING RELATIONSHIPS:The other 50% of our time is set aside to renew relationships and share our vision and ministry with friends, churches and partners here in the USA. All our Sunday mornings are booked up from September- November now, but we do have some Sunday evenings and Wednesday nights available. We also look forward to sharing one on one with many of you about what God has been doing in India. If you would like to schedule a time for us to have coffee, a meal, or just hang out with you, or with a group from your church, please give us a call to arrange something. We now have a landline which is 952-997-3695. Our cell is the same and is 952-465-7531.

BUDGET NEEDS: With the addition of needing to rent a townhouse during our time here, our cash budget need has increased significantly! Please pray for the full release of our needed cash budget, for the provision of the $10,000 needed for the land payment due in December, as well as an increase of $400 per month in our regular monthly needs. At this point we are starting from zero...so still have 100% of our budget left to raise! If God is leading you to help with one of these needs, please do write to us for info on how to do that. :)

INDIA: We were recently in touch with our team in India and it sounds as if things are going well there in our absence. The house churches continue to grow and our staff are working hard. Do continue to remember them in your prayers.

God bless and enjoy the rest of the summer!

The Andersons- Todd, Cindy, Jenna, Steffi and Jeremy

Babcock Bulletin - From Argentina

“Taking Back the Streets”

Our theme for this winter (your summer) is “Las Calles son Nuestras”, or “The Streets are Ours!” Castle staff is challenging the teams throughout Argentina to go to the streets, reclaim

them for Jesus and to post the testimonies on the web to encourage others to do the same.

About three blocks from our Castle building is a government housing complex… ie, slums. One

Saturday, a woman with breast cancer was watching a Castle team perform a drama about Jesus, and became conscious of a burning heat going through her chest. Afterward, she was thrilled to find that the same Jesus from the drama had taken the cancerous tumor out of her

body! Of course, the team took that opportunity to pray and rejoice with her!

Another evening, in spite of the frigid temperatures, the staff decided to witness on the train,

all the way to the center of town. Then, they went down the main walking street, preaching in both English and Spanish. They found out that they had a better audience when preaching and translating. So, a staff member would preach loudly in Spanish and one of our daughters would translate into English. Then they would walk among the crowd and ask individuals what they

thought about the presentation.

On one train car there were only four people, hardly enough to do a presentation, yet Zeba did one anyway. Afterwards he sat down near a young man and began to talk to him about his eternal destiny. He found out that Damian usedto be a Christian and go to church regularly, but something happened that caused him to lose faith. When Zeba spoke to him of the relentless love of God, Damian admitted that it had been years since someone had spoken to him about God. By the end of the conversation, the Holy Spirit had moved him to decide to return to his faith, to his church and to lead his children spiritually.

During the swine flu epidemic, the city of Buenos Aires was in a panic, closing schools, universities, malls, movie theatres, etc. A visiting team from Taylor, MI, went out in small groups with Castle staff members and knocked on doors in the neighborhood, volunteering to pray for any sick people inside the house. Some people slammed the door in their faces, but others welcomed the unexpected show of kindness and received prayer for themselves and their families.

Another team worked in a slum area on the other side of town called Monte Grande. One young man followed the team from the plaza to the church, fascinated by a group of young people that were wholly sold out to the Lord. A mother received sight in an eye that had been damaged by

surgery, while still another woman was set free from witchcraft and received the baptism of the

Holy Spirit.

Time is short, Bible prophecies are coming true. Let’s reach out to people today, in case we don’t have tomorrow.

Prayer Requests!

1. Traveling safety: Buenos Aires has tremendous casualties on their roads, we appreciate your prayers for safety so much!!

2. Wisdom and more wisdom. On every front of the ministry.

3. For our Castle leadership trip (from various provinces) to the Impenetrable.

4. For staff members to be “adopted” by churches/individuals for $100/mo.

5. For construction teams to come help us utilize our castle building.

Lots and lots of blessings,

Kim and Shari Babcock