Europe Updates

6 | FROM THE OFFICE

Ministry Update

Thanks to your help, prayers, and support, we at CBN continue to share hope to people in need, here in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, and Australasia! We thank God for putting your faith in action and generous support. God is blessing our ministry projects and continue to multiply every gift, answer every prayer and we see the increased fruit of our joint effort! Below are the latest ministry updates to demonstrate to you the impact of your support to the ministry of CBN.

CBN Europe (with our headquarters based in Hereford, UK,) is one of CBN’s international ministry centres. We have regional offices in Germany, Croatia, The Netherlands and Moldova. With an active network of broadcasters and partner ministries, CBN Europe is uniquely positioned to share the Good News of Jesus through the four pillars of CBN’s ministry. Our foundation is Jesus Christ and the transformational message of the Gospel. All that we do is made possible thanks to our faithful and generous CBN partners and donors. THANK YOU!

OUTREACH TO THE NETHERLANDS

Thanks to your support to the ministry of CBN, CBN Nederland continues reaching out to Dutch speaking audiences in The Netherlands and Belgium. The Dutch website – which offers ministry updates and articles that inspire hope and faith in Jesus can be visited at: www.cbnnederland.nl.

Do you know how CBN Nederland started out? It all began when a young man named Chris sent an email to CBN Europe, asking why there was no CBN office in The Netherlands. What Chris did not know when he sent that email is that I had a longstanding vision to reach my home country with the Good News of Jesus, and I was so thrilled by his email as a sign that God was at work! After praying and receiving God’s confirmation to go ahead, I met with Chris in The Netherlands to discuss the next steps – we prayed together, and it felt as if we had been working together for a long time already. Thank You Lord for Your leading and provision!

Today, CBN programmes including the international 700 Club and Superbook in Dutch can be viewed on Christian cable channel – ‘Family 7’, who offer a platform for a wide variety of wholesome Christian programming for TV and online. Our Senor Editor, Seb, works closely with Chris to customise the programmes for the Dutch audience. We collaborate closely with Family 7 to reach a young generation through Superbook. We in the process of dubbing Season 3 of Superbook into Dutch. This is all made possible by the generous contributions of CBN donors and our friends and partners at Family 7. We praise God for this Kingdom collaboration and thank God for open doors for the Gospel in The Netherlands!

8 | FROM THE OFFICE foundation for the Gospel. From translating and subtitling ‘Jerusalem Dateline’ for online streaming to drafting our monthly email newsletter and answering online prayer requests – Chris works day in day out to share the Gospel through our various platforms.

We recently launched the first 13 episodes of Superbook in Dutch on YouTube and already, we have over 450 subscribers, and more than 50,000 video views!

In the past two months we received 75 requests for prayer and the number of requests keeps growing each month. We receive wonderful answers to prayer as we stand together and believe God for a miracle. Here is a recent testimony we would like to share with you:

“In April I had send you a prayer request for my sister who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. After half a year of much treatment and truly a lot of prayer, we received the results last Monday. While on the first scan there were a lot of tumors shown, now on the last scan they did, none of them were there and all the tumours are gone!! We are so thankful ad relieved! My sister had much spiritual growth during those months and we thank God for everything He did!” This is so encouraging! And we receive many testimonies like this. We thank God for blessing the work of our hands and for every partner and donor who enabled us to step out in this faith initiative. There is much more to come as we are in the process of translating Superbook Academy as an online tool for churches and trust that we will see many children and families impacted by the power of God’s Word and His love for them.

Please pray for Chris, his wife Samira and for the ministry in The Netherlands. This year, we would love to grow a small team to come alongside Chris, and see the ministry grow further. We also hope to launch a Dutch Prayer Line and raise more funds to continue translating Superbook content into Dutch. There is such a need for children’s resources in The Netherlands – and Superbook is much needed!

I hope you enjoyed reading about the work of CBN Nederland – all made possible by the generous support of CBN partners like yourself. Thank you and may God bless you!

Mark Dijkens

Regional Director CBN Europe

P.S. I recently shared my festive recipe for a Dutch apple pie airing now on the CBN Family app. You can watch it in the Christmas recipe section. If you would like a copy of the recipe with step-by-step instructions, please send an email titled: “Dutch Apple Pie recipe” to: info@cbneurope.com . It’s delicious, and I hope you enjoy it, too!