Hathcocks' prayer update excerpts

Greetings from Texas,

God is at work! God's Word is so rich and full of truth. I am encouraged by the things that He is teaching us. This week I was able to participate in a simulcast of a Solemn Assembly in Dallas. It was hours of prayer and words of challenge and encouragement. We so desperately need God to revive our land especially America and how far we have drifted away. I don't know what else will change the direction that we are going unless God steps in and changes things.

Thank you for your faithfulness to pray for us! Darrel's surgery was successful and he has some pain but is healing. We are hopeful that this will bring some healing to his foot. We were blessed to help a friend and be on campus one day during missions week and to encourage and challenge students in the area of missions. Arianna started her job last week and she is learning so much and we are so thankful for this opportunity. We found out that our former pastor from Hungary will be in McKinney, Texas this week and at the DBU campus. We are so looking forward to seeing them this week. I don't think this is a coincidence.

Please pray:

• Continued healing for Darrel's foot and relief from pain.
• Christians would be desperate for God, humble their hearts, confess and repent from sin and turn to Him. God would send an awakening to America and throughout this world.
• Students would see the possibilities of being a missionary wherever God places them and that they would surrender their plans and desires to Him.
• "R", a women who works at Walmart who shared with me that she was a Wiccan. Pray for God to open her eyes and heart to the truth and to see the lies that she believes.
• There was an explosion in Budapest. Don't know all the details but pray that God would use this to point people to Him.

Also I would like to share a prayer requests taken from "40 Days of Prayer for European People."

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. John 4:35

Pray God would send workers into the harvest, particularly in countries where we no longer have team members.

One of God's servants,
Kimberly

Brown family newsletter August 2015

Dear Friends and Family,

We are witnessing one of the largest refugee movements Europe has seen since World War II. Governments and politicians are seeking solutions to this crisis, but there is no agreement as to what should be done beyond providing humanitarian assistance and granting asylum. As you have probably seen in the media, Hungary is in the eye of the storm as they attempt to secure their border with Serbia and register all immigrants entering the European Union, which is understood in the Schengen Agreement.

While governments and politicians work through issues and solutions, there are ordinary citizens -- especially believers and churches -- who are greeting refugees as they enter cities and congregate at transit service centers, train stations and parks with bottles of water, food, toiletries, medical services, clothes, diapers, etc.

If anyone is interested in serving and caring for refugees coming through Budapest, we’ll be glad to talk and explore ways to serve. Gary Miller, our team strategy leader, can also be contacted; Gary has contacts with various groups and agencies working with refugees coming through Hungary. Contact Gary through the contact form on the Heart for Hungary webpage. 

Baptist Global Response is helping refugees displaced by the Syria conflict; you can learn more at: https://gobgr.org/news/news_detail/help-and-hope-for-syrian-refugees

Please pray for the refugee crisis, for European governments and peoples to respond with compassion and understanding. Pray for wisdom and discernment in knowing the best ways to help asylum seekers and how to resolve the causes of this massive migration.

Moreover, this is a huge opportunity for the gospel to be shared among people who may not have had access to it before. Pray that churches and believers will lovingly serve and care for refugees in the name of Christ and intentionally, boldly, clearly tell the gospel and invite refugees to believe, repent and follow Jesus.

Attached is our family’s newsletter for August. (Download here.) Please forward and share with your church, Sunday school class, Bible study and missions group and others.

As always, we are grateful for your prayers and the faithful support Southern Baptist churches give to the Cooperative Program and generous gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. You make it possible for us to serve as Christ’s ambassadors here.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you. I Peter 1:2

Ron and Robin