TAKING

CHRIST
Jim

and

TO

Jeanne

Blackhillock Farm west Scotland,

UK

THE

KINGDOM

Henckel

Burgle by Forres
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April 10, 1992

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 1

Once again time has escaped us, and this newsletter is overdue! Time really
flies the older we get. There is much going on, and our days are full.
We regret that we are losing one of the charter members of the work here.

Nancy McQuire is leaving the area as her husband has been posted to another
base. He is in the Royal Air Force, and is due to retire in two years. When
you reach that stage in your military career over here, the military moves you
to the base closest to your original home that is possible. We will sorely miss
Nancy, but wish her good hunting in finding a church home at her new residence.

We continue to plan for our summer intern, Becky Bartly, who should be with
us on or about May 28th. There is much that we wish to accomplish this summer
with Becky's help.
Please pray for good weather, as much of what we will be

doing is done out of doors - things like surveying, leafleting, etc.

We are

looking forward to having Becky with us.

The work here continues in an up and down circle. People continue to come
and go, and it is extremely hard to get people to make a commitment to our Lord.

Part of the problem is

teaching.

the years and years of either poor or non-existent

The rest of the problem is the times that we live in.

I believe that

people think that God will be satisfied with a common-law marriage as is the
government.

You know, just live the best you can without any real commitment or

wedding ceremony.

We know, of course, that this is not the case.

expects us to be brides of Christ.

of teaching.

God fully

It is hard to overcome this teaching or lack

But we persevere.

Jeanne continues to teach the women on Monday nights.

They average five to

six in attendance. Right now they are reading the books of the minor Prophets.
They have just completed reading through the Gospels and recording the words of
Jesus, studying the where, when, why, and to whom the words were spoken.
a good study,

It was

and much was learned.

On Monday nights, while the women are meeting, the men gather for a time of

prayer.

It started with just Chris, Robert, and I, and has grown to average

five or six per night.

In addition to prayer, we have been able to do some

teaching to these young Airmen. It was good to hear Andy tell Wayne that they
had been lied to when they were told to just ask Jesus into their hearts and
they were saved. He said that for the first time in the four or five years that

he has been a Christian, he feels he is free to ask questions and be answered out

of the Scripture,

truthfully.

alive to someone.

We praise God for these gains.

It does give satisfaction to see the Word come

Please continue to raise us up in prayer.

Pray for the unsaved of this

area. Pray for our spiritual, physical arid monetary health. Pray for Lorell
who is having real marital problems.
Pray for Robert as he labors with us.
Pray for growth in numbers at Forres Christian Church. Pray that the Lord would
raise some one up to provide us with a building to meet in that would be open to
us other than Sunday mornings.

We have finished our financial statement from last year.

Total giving for

the year was $30,800.88 given by sixty different supporters. We finished the
year in the red, almost to the Pound that we were behind at the end of 1990.
What this means is that giving has increased to the point that it covers
expenditures.
In fact, we are just slightly less in the red than the end of
1990. With an increase of giving of about $400.00 per month, we could be in the
black by the end of this year, and also be putting away a small reserve for
emergencies. We ask for your prayers in this matter, that God would raise up
these funds. If you would like a full financial reporL, they will be available
after May 15th from our forwarding agent. Just drop him a note.
As some of you may know, Jeanne spent the month of February in Michigan
City, helping to nurse our son Charlie back to health after a spell in intensive
care.

want to thank all of the folk who helped during this time with meals,

transportation, prayers and a shoulder to cry on when needed,

I wish to also

thank the anonymous donor of the ticket for Jeanne to travel home and back. You
will never know how much your generosity is appreciated.
May God richly bless
you.

With the exception of the average Scottish spring head cold, which one
normally catches in March and has until February (editor's note: I'm not sure if
Jim is joking or serious here), we are enjoying fairly good health.
We are
looking forward to summer and the programs that go along with it. We will try
to be a little more prompt with our next letter.
We would love to receive
letters from any who wish to write, and will answer all that we can. We thank
all of our supporters for their faithfulness.

In His Love,

(/

Jim I / Jeanne Henckel

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1992

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18 June,

1992

Christian Standard
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Cincinnati, Ohio 45231
U.S.A.

Dear Sirs,

Greetings in the name of Jesus!

I am writing this letter for several reasons. The first

reason is to update you on the work that is being done in the
north of Scotland. Forres, Scotland to be exact.

town of approx.

Forres is a

10.000 people located about 30 iniles north-east

of Inverness. The work here was started in 19S6 by a team of

interns working in Buckie, Scotland with Sam Burton. Buckie is

about 30 miles east of Forres. Robert Caudle has been working

with the Forres church since it started. The church meets in the
town hall on Sunday mornings and in peoples homes on Sunday

evenings and Thursday evenings.

on an
internship
in the
summer
of 1987. We tnen^ returned Forres
to Ozark
Christian
College
to finish
our degree work, graduating in the spring of 1988. We returned

to Forres as full time missionaries in January of 1990.

^ Since our return in 1990, the church has grown to an average

o. 21 people on Sunday morning and 16 on Sunday evening.

average 9 at our Thursday evening Bible study.

We

Because we are

large January
Royal Air1990,
Forcewe base
gain and23 lose
people
all the time. ^ Since
have weimmersed
people.
Most of these have gone on to other places, though we have
retained about 7 that we have baptized.

We have started training our congregation in the use of the

Ambassadors Peace Treaty program.

We hope that this program will

stimulate our people in the area of evangelism.

The second reason for this letter is to inform you that we

will

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speaking dates after January lstV^1993^

Appointments are throughrour forwarding agent, Mark Dace,

Str.eet, Michigan City, IN. 46360. Phone; days-' (2"i 9)""

t^^our

.Would you please incluTJe us

Available Speakers List" covering
th-e *t i me'^"i nvo 1vedT^""

Thank you very much for continuing to send us the Standard

and Lookout. They help us to feel part of the work in the USA
even though we are away from there. We really appreciate the
wor

you are doing and the materials you provide that we can use

with confidence that they are scripturally sound.

In a country

that abounds with Calvinism it is so important to know that what

you are sharing with people is in line with God's Word.

Sincerely in Christ,

eanne Henckel

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CHRIST TO
Jim

and

Jeanne

UK

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Blackhillock Farm West Scotland,

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July 7,

1992

Greetings in Jesus' Name:

I promised that I would try to be more prompt with our quarterly

newsletter in our April edition.
Here i t is July already, so I
thought a few lines would be in order.
The most exciting news that we want to relay to you is that we
have introduced our people to "The Ambassadors Peace Treaty" program
of evangelism.
For those of you who are not acquainted with this
program, i t is written by John Hendee, and is available from Standard
Publishing.
It was readily adaptable to our situation and difference

in language (yes, the language is different here, mostly in usage).

We have gone over the program with three people so far, and while we
have not had any decisions from i t so far, two of the people have not
said "no" to Christ yet, and they are still thinking about accepting

Him.
Please pray for us and the people that we have taught so far,
along with those that we hope to reach in the future.
I guess the
best part of the program is that it gets our people involved with
other people.

The next most exciting news is the growth we see in some of our

people.

This past Sunday we saw two of our young mothers sing special

music in a trio with Jeanne. They did a wonderful job!! This may not
sound like much of an accomplishment, but I assure you that it is a

major break-through for these two. A year ago if anybody would have
told me that Jacqui and Lorell would even sing out loud I would not
have believed it. Jacqui is now leading the women's Bible study for
this quarter, and Lorell is teaching Sunday School. They have really
grown, and we praise God for them.
I wrote last time about our summer intern.

summer interns, both from Ozark Christian College.

Revise that to two

Becky Hartley and

Tina Keeter are on the scene, and keeping busy with surveying Forres

(when the weather permits), and helping to teach Sunday School to give
the teachers a summer break.

and the ability to sing.

They both are gifted with the children,

It is really great to have young folks

around the house again. We praise God for Becky and Tina, and the
work they are doing. We hope that they are learning a lot.
1 would like you to please pray for a family that has left the
church here this past week. They seem to feel too much pressure from
outside committments to be involved in the Lord's work, and that is a

tragic thing.

We pray that they will see how much the body of

believers here love them, and want them back with us. Please raise

them up in prayer. Their names are Chris and Sandra Penny and sons,
we have had visitors the last three weeks in our Sunday morning
service that have come directly from our effort to survey Porres
There have been two children, and one adult. We are thankful for
David and Andrew.

hese results so far.

We continue to invite people at every

opportunity. The surveying also continues as the weather permits

It

because yo S^rvjy
drrwLther."

^^^^remely hard to write on. Please pray for some

The latest visitors to Henckel Manor were Dr. and Mrs Ron keiiv

weddinr"'f'

:ileitLe
Church in Florida.

honor Tf their 25ih

and'the^^f^
sh'- 1 minister
f
They start out
to a winter-only

or so people, hit a peak of 600 around January^\nd^friit"20^^^

the first week of May when they disband fo7'thf su^er." '^aT

exciting work. We were sure thankful for their visit in the middle of
June

We are holding our Holiday Bible Club (V.B.S.) at a different time

this year. Instead of having it during the summer, we are having it

over tattie holiday" in October. Tattie holiday is a local holiday

to allow the children to be off school to help with the potato harvest
when they were harvested by hand. They no longer harvest tatties in
that manner, but they still keep the holiday. We are looking forward
eLltTd
something
the children
to do Mark
thatand
week.
are with
also
excited about
having for
our Forwarding
Agents,
PeggyWeDace,
US during Holiday Bible Club.

nearW

believe,
our thirdour
year
on the
field is
we will but
be starting
first
furlough
in

^d-Noyember. We had originally planned to spend our fourth year

ourfam?^^ 'if
churches, and becoming reacquainted with
JLong
long at this
thT" ttime, so we will
only be taking six months,bhewhich
work will
that

put U9 back here in raid-May.

speaking dates for us.

Our Forwarding Agent ie now scheduling

Please contact him for a time for us to visit

you, if you are interested in hearing about our work.

His name,

address and phone is as follows:

Mark R.

Dace

311 Iremont Street

Michigan City, IN 46360

Home phone (219) 874-2057
Office phone (219) 872-5310

He needs to know as soon as possible so that he can plan our

itenerary.

We are looking foward to seeing old friends and new in the near

future.

Thank you for your prayers and support in our ministry.

In His Great Love,

Jim and Jeanne Henckel

Financial Report - Taking Christ to the Kingdom

January - June, 1992

Balance Forward (January 1, 1992)

$ 1335.63

Income:

Gift Income

$14035.56

Interest Income

12.79

Other Income

9.14

Total Income

$14057.49

Total Available

$15393.12

Expenditures:

Henckel Support
School Loans

$10200.00
1230.42

U.S. Expenses
Scotland Expenses
To Savings

500.00

U.S.

950.00

Taxes

Debt Reduction

258.11 (paper, postage, phone, etc.)

338.52 (computer software, equip.)

500.00

Total Expenditures

Balance Remaining (June 30, 1992)

($13977.05)
$1416.07

From the Forwarding Agent

* I have had opportunity to present the ministry of Talcing Christ

to the Kingdom recently: for Junior Wilderness camp at Lake Region

Christian Assembly; and on August 9 I'll be sharing with the First
Christian Church in Chesterton, Indiana.

* As Jim mentioned, my wife and I will be making a trip to

Scotland in October, to assit with their Holiday Bible Club, and to
help in evaluating their ministry.
* I have already received requests for Jim and Jeanne to make a

presentation during their

furlough.

Their proposed

schedule

is as

follows: raid-November through December will be spent with family,

although they will be available to churches in the immediate area;
January through mid-February they will visit churches on their way to
and through Florida; mid-February through the end of March will be
spent in Texas, Missouri, and Kansas; and April through mid-May will
be spent in this area.

Please let me know if you would like to have

them share with you during one of these times.

Mark

KINGDOM NEWS from

Jim

&

JULY,

Jeanne

c/o Mark R.

Dace

311

Street

Tremont

Michigan City,

IN

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TAKING

CHRIST TO
Jim and

THE

KINGDOM

Jeanne Henckel

Blackhillock Farm West Scotland,

25 October,

UK

Burgle by Forres
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1992

Dear Friends,

It is hard to believe that it is the end of October already!

We
have just, today, had our closing program for Holiday Bible Club
(V.B.S.).
We held our H.B.C. over the fall school holiday this year
to see if it would be better attended.
God really blessed usl
We
enrolled thirty-four different children, and averaged thirty a day for
the week. We also immersed three young people on Friday, October 23.
Please pray for Allan, Emma and Sarah Glen as they start their walk
with Jesus.
By the way, since we do not have a building of our own,
we
baptize
in
the
North Sea.
The
air
temperature was
about
forty-three to forty-five degrees farenheit, and the water temperature
was about thirty-four degrees.
Our closing program was also eventful. As we only have an average
attendance of eighteen to twenty people per Sunday, including nine to
eleven children, we were really pleased to have seventy-one people in
services, including our closing program, this morning.
That is double
the best attendance that we have ever had for anything before.
Praise
the Lord!!!
Many of the parents that attended this morning indicated
that they would allow their children to come to Sunday School on a
regular basis.
Threr were a few who even indicated that they might
attend as a family.
We are absolutely over- joyed at God*s greatness
and goodness!

We need to thank all of our supporters for their generosity and

dilligence in supporting the work here. A very special thank you goes
to Mark and Peggy Dace, our Forwarding Agents, for traveling to Forres
to help us with H.B.C. this year.
A special thanks also to First
Christian Church, Michigan City, IN., for allowing Mark the time and
means to come.
You will never know how much they were needed and
appreciated.

As most of you will know by now, Jeanne and I will be on furlough

from November 17, 1992, until May 11, 1993.
If you have not yet
conversed with Mark about us visiting your congregation while we are

Baptism in the
FRIGID North Sea

in the States, please do so as quickly as possible as we are trying to

get our itinerary put together.

We really want to visit all that we

can while we are on furlough.

We do have a few needs that need to be met. We are in desperate

need of an automobile while we are stateside. If there is anyone that
has a second or third car that we could use while on furlough, we
would be most grateful. Please let Mark know If you can help out in

this way. We will also have some added expense of keeping things
going here in Scotland and traveling stateside. If you can help out
it would be so appreciated also.

As I mentioned in our last newsletter, we have been using the

Ambassador's Peace Treaty to reach people for the Lord.

We were

successful in teaching Mandy Walsh, and immersed her in Christ in the

North Sea on August 23. The ladies have been having their Bible Study
in her home on Monday nights. P.T.L.IM Please pray for Mandy, and
her young daughter, Kim,

On the Friday night of October 9, we had an overnight video party

at Henckel Manor for all our youth and friends. We ended up with
fifteen youth aged six through thirteen, A great time was had by
alll!

Since our last letter we have had the privilege of entertaining

some

folk

at

Henckel

Manor.

The

Ross

Wistmann

Sawbridgeworth, England, spent a few days with us,

family

from

Mr. and Mrs, Lynn

Gardner, from Joplin, MO, spent a day with us in August,

And of

course Mark and Peggy Dace have been with us for twelve days. We are
most grateful for those who have shared our home with us. We are also

looking foward to having our daughter, Terri Kay, visiting with us on

November 5th through the 17th,

Please pray for the following:

- A car for our use while on furlough.
- The congregation hers in Forres,

Robert Caudle, as he ministers here on his own during our

furlough.

Increased support to allow us to enact more programs here

- Safe travel for us while stateside.
~ The new Christians here in Forres,
- Follow-up of those who attended H.B.C.

We are so looking foward to seeing family and friends very soon.

In His Lovs/

Jim and Jeanne

A Note from the Forwarding Agent

It is difficult to sum up the experiences gained in twelve days in

the country of Scotland, but I'm going to attempt my best. My wife
and I went to Scotland with the desire to help encourage Jim and
Jeanne,

and

the

people

of

the

Forres

Christian

Church,

and

was

encouraged by tnem in return. We thoroughly enjoyed working with the

children, and the other adults, in their Holiday Bible Club. The Club
not only met, but exceeded their expectations. To highlight a great
week, we were blessed with three baptisms;

and Jim and Jeanne were

estatic with the number present for the closing program.

The praises

and the honor for the week belong to God.

Two things about the work were confirmed by our trip; 1) the high
cost or living in Scotland; and 2) the great spiritual needs of the
people. While we were there, the value of the American dollar was its
highest in about three years. While the items in the stores are about

the same in Pounds, as Dollars here; as a result of the exchange rate,

multiply

our

costs

by

about

1.7

exception was with fuel (petro) .

2.25 Pounds,

to

determine

their

costs.

One

A gallon of unleaded gas was about

or $3.82.

The people in Scotland need to know Jesus.

A comment was made to

me that one of the reasons why the H.B.C. closing program was so well
attended is nobody had anything else to do an a Sunday morning 1 We
saw the reality of beautiful cathederals, reminder of
church, with very small actual participation. My friends, I
our own country is headed in the same spiritual direction as
I pray that in fifty years we won't be lamenting over 4 or

the state
fear that
Scotland.
5% of the

American population worshipping in a church of any kind on a given

Sunday.

My space is

limited, but my thoughts are not.

On behalf of the

Henckels, I want to express our gratitude to you for allowing us the

opportunity to perform this ministry,
you.
Mark

and share news about it with

Financial Report - Taking Christ to the Kingdom

July -

September, 1992

Balance Forward (07/01/92)

$1416.07

Income;

Gift Income

$6083.79

Interest

3.03

10.45

Income

Other income
Total

$6097.27

Income

Transfer from Savings

$1300.00

Total Funds Available

Expenditures:
Henckel Support

$8813.34

$5400.00

School Loans

615.21

U.S. Expenses

172.49

Furlough Expenses

$1300.00

Total Expenses

$8268.83

Ending Balance (09/30/92)

544.51

KINGDOM NEWS - OCTOBER, 1992

from Jim & Jeanne Henckel in Scotland
c/o Mark R. Dace
311

Tremont

Street

Michigan City,

IN

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