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ATHIS-MONS, France  APRIL 2, 2024 

Greetings to my Helpers, 

  I am thankful for 8 months visiting family and Christian helpers in the USA.  April 2023 to February 2024   I was able to celebrate Christmas and my birthday with my brother and sister with their families.  The Christian fellowship with my supporting churches and with individual supporters was very helpful and encouraging.  Paul’s joy in receiving finances from his supporters was that they would receive “fruit that may abound to your account.”  Philippians 4:10-11

  During my time in USA I spent one month in Romania.  While in RO I had a 3-day conference on fasting at Living Hope Independent Baptist Church with pastor Mihai Czentye.  My 120 pages on fasting is about to be printed.  I am planning to send 1 copy to each of my supporters.  If any person or church wants more than 1 copy, please let me know.  Pastor David Langley of Bethany Baptist Church in Tulsa, OK is responsible for the printing.  His email: owasso@hotmail.com His telephone: 918-695-5336.  Central Baptist Church in Houston, TX has ordered 50. After 60 years of fasting experience, I felt it was time to write something about fasting.  “Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye brake every yoke.”  Isaiah 58:6

  Upon returning to France, Feb. 7, I could not find my French driver’s license.  On  April 1 I found it.  This is not an April fool’s joke.  On March 4 I began traveling in France.  I attended an Independent Baptist pastors conference in Larodde, FR.  This Christian Center called Arc en Ciel (Rainbow in the Sky) is run by Andrew & Sepohra Livingstone.   They have offered to take care of me once I can no longer care for myself.  Jaques LeGrand was there from nearby Ussel, FR.  He puts up Bible posters which I gave him.  I visited a long-time friend & Messianic Jew Francois & Veronique Blum in La Croix Rousse a suburb of Lyon, FR.  While distributing on the street I mat a Jewish couple who were willing to talk and to take a message on Purim by Israel My Gory.  Purim was soon to be on March 23.  

  Returning to Athis-Mons I put up small Bible posters.  In L’Isle sur Le Doubs on 17 March I had an accident with a pedestrian apparently in a crosswalk.  I, do not know if he was hurt as he was taken to the hospital to be checked.  The police let me go after taking my personal information.  There has been no further communication.

  The verse from Purim is Esther 4:16 “Go, gather together all Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.” 

With thanksgiving,

Michael David Bentley

I am thankful the LORD OF THE HARVEST enabled me to serve 52 years of missionary service.