Greetings from Athis-Mons, France
June – July 2024 Neswletter

Dear Prayer Partners,
Despite my many weaknesses and failures, I sense God’s hand of blessing upon my ministry. “Behold ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.”  Isaiah 58:4.  It was from this verse I got the title for my book on fasting. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD O HIGH. The book has been printed and is available through my web site..

On June 22 I traveled to Paris to see the ear doctor. She prescribed for me drops to loosen the ear wax 5 days ago. I could hear very little that day. As usual tracts were distributed as I traveled between three different trains. I stood outside the final station Liege in north Paris and distributed tracts. I met Charles a waiter in the nearby restaurant. He came and offered me water. He had a cross around his neck. As a high school student, he spent a year in Iowa living in a pastor’s home as an exchange student. What joy & results distributing tracts brings me. By 1963 I was distributing tracts. At the ear cabinet Mrs. Ignatova (Bulgarian) washed all the wax out of my ears! After leaving the train in my town of Athis-Mons I began the steep climb up the hill. The train station is alongside of the beautiful Seine River. I offered a man a tract. He said he had. As he passed me he whispered in my ear Israel. I did not understand that at the moment but later realized what he said. Near my apartment there are two free public library boxes. You can leave a book and take a book. This box is near the entrance to the cemetery. I offered a man a tract. He stopped and we talked. He said he is a Jew. He invited me to the Saturday morning service which is at 9:30. The synagogue is a 5-minute walk from my apartment. I was not able to go the next Saturday, even though I wanted to go.

A few weeks ago, I was pressed in my spirit to get out of my apartment. I took 2 French Bibles for the free library boxes near my apartment. It was Friday afternoon. Therefore, I wanted to walk by the nearby synagogue. I distributed tracts and as I approached the entrance to the synagogue a young man crossed the street. I offered him a tract which he took. We talked and I found out he is a Jew. His grandmother who used to live opposite the synagogue died the day before in Ashdod, Israel. As I left him, I remembered I had a booklet in my back pocket of the conversion of Lorna Simcox of FOI Mission. She is Jewish. He received it and said he would read it.

I am thankful for the massive help of pastor David & Martha Langley for preparing for printing of my book. He has more books. If you want more David can send them. David ??s email: owasso@hotmail.com His phone: 918-695-5336. He lives in Owasso, OK which is just north of Tulsa. Please pray for his church Bethany Baptist Church in north Tulsa. Any comments from those who read the book will be greatly appreciated. I would like this book to be translated into French and Romanian, perhaps into Hebrew. The church in Mioveni, RO will translate it and print the book. The purpose of the book is to show what is Biblical fasting. I did that by showing most of the fasting done in the Bible. There is a commentary on Isaiah 58 after presenting the fasting of the Bible. I pray this book will encourage Christians to start Biblical fasting. For those Christians already fasting may they be encouraged to continue.

I will soon be getting new eyeglasses. Eyeglasses in France are paid for by the government and private insurance. July 18 I will have a lung scan as I am spitting up blood. I need dental work. In the past I did my dental work in Israel. I have not been in Israel since the end of 2019.

On July 1 I left by van to attend an eight-day Baptist Bible conference in Larodde, FR. Professor of biology Pierre Williams of Pensacola Christian College taught about Creation. The fellowship and teaching were a blessing. I was able to put up 5 Bible posters around the conference. Now that elections are over in FR I can restart to poster. Andrew & Sephora Livingston are the directors of this Baptist center called Arc en Ciel (Rainbow). Andrew is pastor of the Independent Baptist Church of Bort les Orgues, FR. I appreciate your prayers for my driving. I will visit the Oasis church in Olivet, FR to pick up used clothing for the Christian Mission La Gerbe (the sheaf) who transport the clothes to Ukraine. The pastor is Louis-Marie Lemofac who was born in Cameroon, Africa. Their Mission is called the Gospel for All based in Switzerland. Their pastor in Tours, FR Kurt & Mireile Ruiegger were my friends since 1988 when I spoke in his church. He died in 2023. The Olympics begin July 26, 2024, in Paris. It will be a good time to give out tracks.

Michael David Bentley

Matthew 9:14-15. “but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and them shall they fast.”