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    This document is a newsletter from First Baptist Church in Athens, Texas about their mission work in Cesis, Latvia. It discusses how winter has arrived in Cesis, bringing freezing temperatures and snow. It notes how Latvians adjust to winter differently than Texans. It also summarizes youth activities at the local church, including a youth service and Bible study. Additionally, it discusses the church's soup kitchen ministry to help the elderly and poor, and talks about the possibility of Cesis Baptist Church obtaining their own building.

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    This document is a newsletter from First Baptist Church in Athens, Texas about their mission work in Cesis, Latvia. It discusses how winter has arrived in Cesis, bringing freezing temperatures and snow. It notes how Latvians adjust to winter differently than Texans. It also summarizes youth activities at the local church, including a youth service and Bible study. Additionally, it discusses the church's soup kitchen ministry to help the elderly and poor, and talks about the possibility of Cesis Baptist Church obtaining their own building.

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    This document is a newsletter from First Baptist Church in Athens, Texas about their mission work in Cesis, Latvia. It discusses how winter has arrived in Cesis, bringing freezing temperatures and snow. It notes how Latvians adjust to winter differently than Texans. It also summarizes youth activities at the local church, including a youth service and Bible study. Additionally, it discusses the church's soup kitchen ministry to help the elderly and poor, and talks about the possibility of Cesis Baptist Church obtaining their own building.

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    First Baptist Church

    MISSION: CESIS Cesis Baptist Church


    Athens, Texas Cesis, Latvia

     M I S S I O N N EW S LE T T ER 2 0 0 7 — 2 0 0 8 

    November 15, 2007 Volume 1, No. 6

    WINTER ARRIVES IN CESIS


    Our Latvian figure out why snow would cause such a change in life-
    friends tell us that style.
    we can’t be true We seem to be adjusting well to the temperature
    Latvians until we changes. It could be that the parka, hat, gloves, scarf,
    have stayed here an sweaters and long-johns that we wear outside have some
    entire winter. We effect on our adjustment. Our flat is relatively warm
    are beginning to and we just keep feeding the wood to the stove.
    see why!
    The biggest adjustment has been after the time
    For the past ten or changed. It is completely dark here by 4:45pm. The sun
    so days we have not does not get very high in the sky during the day and
    had any tempera- night comes very quickly. Everything has a trade-off as
    tures above freezing. To The ‘monk’ sculpture at we were enjoying day- l i g h t
    balance some of that St. John’s Lutheran until 10:00pm in the
    out for us, we have seen summer. Most Latvians
    the first of many snow- warn us more about
    falls. After a few flurries depression from the
    during the weekend, it way of life. Nothing slows dark days and long
    really started coming down down, nobody stays home nights than about the
    on Monday. After about 18 and they certainly don’t cold weather. We are
    hours of snow, everything close the schools. When we doing great and don’t
    was pretty well covered. As told them that if Texas had foresee a problem
    native Texans, it is enjoy- received the amount of with that. Our
    able to watch the snow and snow that Cesis did on St. John’s Baznica
    Cesis friends go out
    see how different every- Monday, we would have of their way to check
    thing looks. closed the schools and
    cleaned out Wal-Mart. up on us and help us out. We are privileged to have
    For the Latvians, it is just a They just laugh and can’t such fine people to work with.

    Youth Service—November 25
    The next big push for our youth Riga, student-led Bible-study and most of their parents and grandparents
    will be a city-wide youth night to music from some of our members. did not practice Christianity during
    be held at Cesis Baptist on No- We are glad they are taking such an Soviet times there is usually no family
    vember 25. We have tried to let active role in getting this type of tradition of attending church. We have
    the youth organize and plan the meeting started. Being a Christian in been encouraging our youth to become
    service the way they think it Latvia is very much different from more open in their Christian walks and
    would appeal to other Latvian being one in the US. Most young we hope this will be another good step
    young people. There will be a people will not admit to their peers for them.
    Christian band from a church in that they even attend church. Since
    SOUP KITCHEN
    The elderly and the poor suffer in This kitchen is a joint-effort between the think they understand we don’t speak
    Latvia for a variety of reasons. For Lutheran Church and the Cesis Baptist Latvian very well but most of them love
    the elderly, some of Church. to chatter just like we knew the lan-
    the problem is There is a guage. We just nod and smile!
    that they ex- core-group The soup is nearly always beet or cab-
    pected to have of elderly bage based, not our favorites but they
    a pension after and down- seem to love it. They only get soup and
    working for so on-their black bread … no tea, coffee or desserts.
    many years luck people Laura has been making cookies to take
    under Soviet that are and they love them. We have also tried
    rule. Since there every to buy fresh fruit at least once a week
    Latvia became week. They and distribute to them. They are so
    a free nation, are ex- thankful for it. We wish we knew the
    the pensions tremely nice language better because a lot of them
    that the elderly to us and probably have had interesting lives.
    receive are very low. try to talk Some are battling alcohol problems or
    A few of our soup-kitchen with us at
    It has been our privi- have had other difficulties but we are
    lege to help serve in a friends . . . every oppor- never more appreciated than when we
    local soup kitchen. tunity. I serve there.

    A HOME FOR CESIS BAPTIST CHURCH ? ? ? CONTACT INFORMATION:

    It has long been a dream for Cesis Bap- MWimberley2005@yahoo.com


    termine the best course for its future, how it
    tist Church to have their own building. will be able to meet the financial obligations www.cesislatvia.blogspot.com
    They currently worship in a church that and what their vision for Cesis Baptist
    is owned by the Lutheran congregation. Church will look like. www.picasaweb.google.com/MBerley
    Not since the late 1930’s have the Bap-
    tists met in their own church building.
    Cesis Baptist has recently begun to
    study in earnest the possibility of con-
    structing a new church building. We
    will have a meeting this Wednesday to
    talk with a pastor from another part of
    Latvia that is currently building a small
    church with a congregation the approxi-
    mate size of Cesis.
    There are many obstacles still to over-
    come for this to be a reality but if this
    church is ever going to grow and have
    an identity of its own, they will have to
    have a building. Planning all of one
    church’s activities around the calendar
    of another congregation is very hard to
    do. There is a need of Sunday School
    rooms, parking and adequate restroom
    Current meeting place for Cesis Baptist . . .
    facilities at the current church. Please
    be in prayer as our church tries to de-

    Page 2 Mission: CESIS


    A FEW MORE SIGHTS OF CESIS:

    Castle Park lake — freezing


    Winter artistry . . .
    over . . .

    Castle Park stairway . . . Castle Park

    Youth Meeting: cold floors?

    Volume 1, No. 6 Page 3

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