Greetings fellow labours, We would like to inform you of a need and request your help in supplying for this work. Through your help last year, we were able to feed over 2,000 Bulgarian church families during the harsh winter. We would like to do the same this year. A 110 lb. sack of flour and 5 liters of oil currently costs $36.25. With $145, you can feed four families throughout the winter. Because of the decline of the US dollar, it will now cost $60,000 to feed 1,600 families for the winter, but we would like to feed more. Please pray with us about these matters and believe God to supply the need. Whatever the Lord lays on your heart to do, we’ll be grateful.

The Lord has abundantly blessed us this year. With great joy we would like to give you a brief update of the work in Bulgaria and Romania:

        •  Over 100 churches have been established in Bulgaria and Romania since 1991. During the past few years the churches have grown from around 1,500 families to about 2,000.

        •  In 2011 many adults professed faith in Christ and were baptized.

        •  Many have been saved and encouraged through our preaching and singing DVD’s and CD’s, one of our main evangelistic tools. Wherever our Turks travel they take the DVD’s and CD’s with them.

        •  20 church feeding centers have been established in Romania and 18 in Bulgaria, where children and adults get one good meal per day.

        •  In 2002 Casa Julia Children’s home was established in Romania. They are raising 11 abandoned children, giving them a safe, loving, Christian home.

        •  During the winter we assist our church members with food. We also help those in need with firewood. A cord of firewood costs about $180.

        •  “Coats for Kids” was started in 2009 by the Leach family. They distributed 1,000 winter coats, 1,000 pairs of socks and 25 pairs of shoes to the neediest children in his Bulgarian village churches.

        •  8 Missionary families minister in 3 languages: Turkish, Romanian, and Bulgarian. 17 National pastors help us oversee this work. About $1,000 a month extra is needed to support these men.

           We try to help each pastor offset the costs of their food and fuel (fuel is presently $7.50 a gallon). Our men look after 5-10 churches and several even more than that!

The Lord is good. He has met our needs consistently, and we are careful to give Him the praise for His loving provision, and for your obedience to His moving in your hearts.

To God be the Glory! In Christ, Rev. Mike Nixon Director of Charity Baptist Mission

Since 1991 the Lord has kept the doors open for Charity Baptist Mission to help feed the poor in Bulgaria and Romania.

As of September 2011 the following are the basic costs for carrying on this work.

Bulgaria

•  We are supplying food for 18 churches daily. Monthly it costs about $175 per church.
•  About 353 children are fed each month through theses churches.
•  Some of these churches feed between 20 and 30 children daily.
•  It costs roughly $8.50 to feed a child for the month or 29 cents per day.
•  We need at least $3,150 each month to continue this work.

It's been a long time since we've gotten in this amount for the feeding.  Currently, we receive less than $2,000 per month, so many of the missionaries give out of their monthly support to help with this endeavor. Even with their help, we had to cut the feeding down due to lack of funds.

 We can't afford to buy beans every month. Sometimes we have to buy fewer potatoes, rice, and/or oil.  This month cabbage will be cheap, so we'd like to get each church a couple barrels of cabbage: they pickle it and use it the rest of the winter.  If we had the funds, we could also buy more potatoes this month while they're cheap and then store and use them in the coming months. 

Romania

•  We supply food for 20 feeding centers which feed 15-20 people at each location.
•  Each month we buy 7,500 loaves of bread for around $2,200 dollars (at 29 cents per loaf)
•  These are distributed throughout the Romanian feeding centers.
•  Roughly 280 people are being fed each day at a cost of $2,550 each month.
•  That comes to about $8.90 per month for a child/person.
•  Our Missionaries oversee 15 churches with the help of 7 national pastors.

In addition to the bread we are spending about $2,000 a month for food plus about $500 - $600 a month all together on rents and water for the 16 places that prepare food for children.  This includes some food for the National pastors and their families.  We also have churches in some very poor villages where not only the children, but all those that come to the church can be fed.

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 - Please click on the following link for -
 

A SUMMARY OF OUR 35 YEARS ON THE MISSION FIELD 1975 - 2010

(An overview of what the Lord has done through Sr. Missionary Ralph Cheatwood, who is over the work in Bulgaria and Romania)

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Camp Meetings at Brookside Baptist Church

 Rev. Mike Nixon - Pastor - Rev. Fred Potter - Founder

Services:

Monday 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Tuesday - Friday 10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

CAMP MEETING DATES

March - Last Monday & week following, July - Last Monday & week following October - Last Monday & week following

For more information call: Tel. 423-878-2771 or 423-878-8131  Tri-State Baptist Children’s Home 1528 Vance Tank Rd. Bristol, TN. 37620

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”  1 Cor 13:13

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