Global Partner Interview: The Dennys

Kladno, Czech Republic

In this episode we hear Nathan Thiry interview Global Outreach Partners Marcus and Amie Denny on a recent trip to Kladno, Czech Republic. 

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• Dan Jarms 0:00
  Today on faith matters, Nathan Thiry is going to be doing an interview with our global partners in the Czech Republic, Marcus and Amy Danny.
  
  Dan Jarms 0:13
  I'm Dan Jarms. And you're listening to faith matters a podcast to help update you on matters of faith Bible Church, as well as equip you in matters of the Christian faith.
  
  Dan Jarms 0:34
  Nathan Thiry is a man of many hats of faith Bible Church, one of the things he does is oversee our outreach, global missions and local missions. And he was recently on a trip to Czech Republic, and he had a chance to sit down with Marcus and Amy Denny, and encouraging update from what's going on in the field.
  
  Nathan Thiry 1:00
  I'm here in the Czech Republic with Marcus and Amie Denny are missionaries to the Czech Republic, and I'm excited to get to talk to them. I'm excited for all of you who are listening to this to get to know them better and to know how to pray for them and give thanks to them for what God's doing. Marcus and Amie, why don't you just tell us about how God led you to serve here in the Czech Republic?
  
  Marcus Denny 1:20
  Well, it's a joy to have you here. And it's a joy to be able to update FBC on what God's doing. I mean, I've been here for 14 years. And we both got involved in ministry here through short term teams. So back in 2000, even before that, Peter and Sonia Smith were here. And they were focused on working with the church at that time. And we came over on a short term trip. And we were working at an English camp and just sharing the gospel with the students there. And I think for both of us, it just captured our hearts, we just saw a great need in a country that's filled with not just atheism, but all the results of that just the last thinking, people not understanding to any extent what life is about why they hear wildlife messed up how things can be made, right? No sense of the truth of God or the gospel. And I think that and then just seeing the Smith family, as they were ministering, watching how they loved one another in their family and how they loved the last and ministered to the believers. It was a huge, huge example I think for for me first and then yeah, McCain the following year. So and then through that, we just began to focus. I mean, I personally was really beginning to focus on what God was calling me to do here. And part of that was looking for a wife that was willing to do that as well, that knew what missions was about. The difficulty of that, and even was familiar with, you know, the work here. So, you know, God in His kindness led me and I to relationship, and we came here in 2009. So
  
  Amie Denny 2:57
  I think for me, it's just did what Marcus said, and you know, only that, for me, the experience was really eye opening, and that I'd never met people who had never heard of the Gospel for in any form in any way about Jesus dying on the cross. And I think that truly is what ignited my heart to the special need that is here. I mean, everybody needs the gospel remedy. unsaved needs regeneration. However, I'd never met people who are so much in a vacuum of absence of any of that knowledge. So that really ignited my heart, the desire and an urgency to fill that need.
  
  Nathan Thiry 3:36
  That's great. We're so thankful that you guys came here 14 years ago now, and for how the world have been using you tell us about where you are exactly, geographically, like most of us have heard of Prague, Czech Republic, but where is it that you live? Where's the church being planted? And then tell us about your focus? What have you guys been doing here the last 14 years in terms of your overall focus and effort?
  
  Marcus Denny 3:57
  In two weeks will be I have been here for 14 years. And we got here. Our oldest was four. And so we have there were four, two and nine months. So they're all super little. And we were just in our 30s. And we got here and we basically swapped places with Peter and Sonia Smith, who had, you know, started a church plant. I want to say 567 years before that. And it's just, uh, it's tough work. You know, it's just a lot of plowing, plowing, plowing, and sewing and sewing. And so when we came in, they had been here for 13 years, they were fluent in Czech, they were, you know, fully engaged in the ministry and, you know, shepherding and all the aspects of that, and we swapped places, but obviously we didn't just swap abilities because we were at Ground Zero as far as language goes. So but our focus even since day one is has been the church and building the church up and you know, seeing the last saved and the the elect sanctified. So We've been focusing on that. And now the church 14 years later it's it's a, it's, it's growing. We're super encouraged to see God out into the church saving people, and lots of stories about how God's just radically saved atheists and very, very lost people are in very dark places spiritually enslaved to sin. And he's adding those people to the church. And so a lot of encouraging stories. With that comes a lot of hard work, and a lot of hard praying and a lot of hard shepherding and ministry. So is the same thing you guys are doing there. It's exactly the same thing. But our goal is to see a healthy church planted in a country that's, you know, not just atheistic, but even the form of Christianity here and the state of churches, generally, it's very bad. Churches, very weak, those churches that have been existence for a long time that dominations liberalism has been creeping in. The Word of God is not preached, people aren't shepherded, you know, sins not rebuked. People aren't encouraged and edified and they're not equipped to do the work of the ministry, that kind of thinking that concept isn't here. There's really not a lot of biblical ministry. So our focus has been rarely doing exactly what you guys are doing in Spokane, just in this context, you're really wanting to equip the saints, for the work of service to the building up of the body. And that's the phase we're at in right now. We're just watching God, slowly increase people's hunger to know God and even see them increasing in their desire to serve and want to minister and build up the church.
  
  Nathan Thiry 6:30
  Tell us where where the church is. And where do you guys live? Maybe you can speak to that. You have new markets both speak impeccable check. Not that I would know but I people understand you and whatever your check is like the best in the family maybe. So anyway, tell us tell us where you are. You guys are so clad.
  
  Amie Denny 6:46
  No is just west, a little bit north of Prague, a capital city. And it is a small city, formerly the seat of communism. It had a iron mill Iron Works that actually provided iron for most of the Soviet bloc at the time. So I think culturally speaking, it's probably some of the hardest area to establish a church. That might even be the reason why Peter Smith decided to plant a church there. So our home is just north and west of our church plant, we decided to purchase a home. And so we can just to establish ourselves and our family little bit better. And we commute into the town, but our kids go to school there and everything. So that's basically our home base, we can share there, we evangelize there. We live there,
  
  Nathan Thiry 7:35
  tell us what some of the obstacles are that you've had to overcome, just in terms of, you've already spoken to some of the challenges of the darkness here. But tell us more about what what have been some of the things you've had to work to overcome by God's grace.
  
  Marcus Denny 7:46
  And the first one would be the language, obviously, it's very difficult language. You know, they didn't they didn't teach that in public school when I was there. So we had to come over and just learn from ground zero. And it's a, it's a very intense language. It's very, it's complicated, grammatically. And it's very different approach than English speaker. So that was the first hurdle just working on that. And we committed ourselves to that with a lot of a lot of time. And I was very kind to give us a great teacher. So that was the first hurdle. I think even just with that, you know, when I started transitioning to preaching and check, which was brutal for everybody, I think, for me, and not just for me, but I mean, just to think about the people that were sitting there listening to that, it's pretty phenomenal, that even in the midst of that, that the church started growing, it's kind of, I think, that shows us that this is all of God, because who would want to listen to anybody, you know, just totally butcher their language, you know, so but I think it showed the hunger there was for the Word of God. And even as people began to travel, extensively, some people were traveling to three hours to be with us on Sundays, because they really wanted to hear the word they wanted to fellowship. So that was a hurdle. Obviously, language wise, culturally, it's very different. So if we can talk more to this, but you know, she mentioned the communism here that just infiltrated the thinking, you know, atheistic thinking, atheistic worldview. It's not that people go around saying, I'm an atheist, I'm an atheist, but the impact of that having been raised up in a culture that rejects God, and therefore rejects the morality that comes with that and rejects the even the love the kindness, even trust, so trust was just destroyed as people were pressed to spy on their neighbors and, and rat out, you know, other people. So trust as a culture was completely destroyed. And even to this day, there's just not a lot of trust in other people. And so that obviously affects just relationships. You know, people don't greet one another on the streets, people aren't overtly really friendly. It just takes a long time. So even for us as Americans, and especially as missionaries. Now, we're already suspect, you know, I think instead of people really wondering, Hey, why are you here? Well, if just for example, people rarely would ask us why we're here. So here in houses American family out in this village, which is pretty sad. range, but people would rarely ask us, Why are we here? Certainly every single one of them is asking in their, you know, in their minds, like, What in the world is this family doing here? But for them, you know, it's just like a very personal question. And that kind of just shows you how difficult it can be to build relationships and you know, be able to share the gospel, or you can come in and we can go door to door and you know, given the gospel, but that, you know, that just shuts the door, I think long term. So you really, were trying that balance where so yeah, we want to get the gospel out there. But because of Catholicism because of communism, because even have an influx of Jehovah's Witness, all around us, there's just a lot of hurdles, and a lot of roadblocks. But I think that, you know, those things are overcome as they see the love of Christ. And as the gospel is going through the people that have been getting saved, and then they're ministering their lives, the radical change that that people see in their lives, is impacting them. And that's really, I think, how the church has been growing. And I think, how some of the hurdles have been overcome, you know, evangelistically.
  
  Amie Denny 11:01
  Personally, my struggle, as I have contact with unbelievers, a daily basis, is how to trust God that He will lead and he will help me to reach out to the people around me, I think, you know, it's easy to kind of, we, you have the pressing Great Commission in your heart, you want to be faithful to God's commands to reach out. And yet, and I could, I could be very zealous, and that that's a beautiful thing, you know, to go and say, I'm going to overcome this, I'm going to go reach out to everybody, and I commend that, that'd be really good. However, in this environment, I think it ends up being a little bit unattractive and people are weary and don't trust, that kind of evangelism as much. I'm not saying it's not, we should always bounce in sometimes and out attract and just to approach people boldly is exactly what we should be doing. However, in this context, I think it's taught me and is teaching me to continue to learn to put that evangelism and all of God's ministry in his hands, meaning that being very powerful, being not timid but being waiting on him. And a lot of times, he overcomes the barriers of what my flesh can ever overcome, if I was just super bold, and, you know, decided to be very loud for the gospel, which again, I commend, would not be as effective here. He overcomes what my flesh couldn't overcome in their hearts, where he leads the relationship to another level. And he, a lot of times presents need to the person who I'd like to reach out to or to Marcus wants to reach out to two where they notice that we're different, they see that we're genuine, they see that our love isn't fake. And they actually reach out to us afterwards when they have need. I'm not saying that's always the case. But I think for me, it's a challenge then, not to not to go forth in the flesh or not to go forth. I'm desiring evangelism, out of any human feeling of guilt, false guilt, but rather to really commit and trust God, that if He's author of salvation, that he will lead those opportunities. And he does.
  
  Nathan Thiry 13:11
  That's great. Tell us about some of the ways you've seen God overcoming those things that have been challenging for you. Have you seen God? Building up the church? What what kinds of things you've been seeing him do that have been encouraging to you lately?
  
  Marcus Denny 13:21
  Well, first would be just people that have been saved. Yeah, you know, God gives us personally opportunities to share the gospel. Even with neighbors, we've had numerous opportunities, you know, one of our neighbors up here, he kind of figured out what I was doing, and on his own was, like, you know, Googling my name and found our church website and sort of listened to some sermons are interesting, which, by the way, I just, it just shows you people aren't going to come directly ask us why we're here. But they they are curious. And they some of them do start digging around and, and it can lead to good things. So this guests are listen to some sermons, we had some very good conversations and lots of opportunities to talk to them about Christ and just just continue to try to do so. But for the most part, I think what's been most effective is the checks themselves. So we just see unbelieving family members, as Amy was talking about that are in desperate situations. We had one of the sons of one of our members, just a very godless man just to live in a lot of sin and darkness and immorality. And he was just brought to his wit's end and he came on our dad's children's canoe trip. So every summer we do for a week, we just paddle on the river, and, you know, camping at night and stuff, and he was with us, and by the third day, he was just he was he wanted to come to church. And this is a guy who was very much against God. But he just he just, he came up to me, and he said, Can I come to church on Wednesday, or can I come to church on Sunday? And, and I said, like, what's, what's bringing us about? And he literally said, I don't understand what's going on at RST. What's happenings when he said translation. And I said, What do you mean he goes, I've never met people like this. I've never seen dads that love their children like this that serve others. You guys, you guys are even serving me and my family, my kids, I don't understand this. And so obviously, that led to opportunity to talk about the love of Christ, the love of God, and what it was that he was seeing. And so they came to church, and God saved them. And they were, you know, they've got nine kids, between them, she was waiting on their second kid together. So when they got married, she had had the baby, you know, they got baptized, you know, God brought them to faith, and they got baptized, and they're growing. And so just things like that, I think where we see the the power of the gospel manifesting itself in the lives of those in the church and God using the saints, to you know, be fishers of men.
  
  Nathan Thiry 15:44
  Have you guys seen God using marriage counseling to bring people and grow people in the church? Well,
  
  Amie Denny 15:51
  I think that's another real key sign, maybe have the kind of teaching people or have access to hear that a lot of it's very heady, like people if they've come upon really good reformed doctrine, theology, they're all too happy to teach it. However, maturity comes with time and with exposure and discipleship, to go godly, older people who've walked the walk and can show you. And we were so blessed, growing up at Faith Bible Church, that we were totally surrounded by mature older couples, with children, families, and we're able to see with our own eyes, what that looks like. However, people here are very limited in their access to such help, and discipleship, those relationships. So I think a lot of many members have become members of our church to the fact that they're totally on board with right theology, they love the Word of God, however, they were deprived of examples and of discipleship relationships. So it really is not any kind of crazy, amazing shepherding or counseling, really what it is, is just taking these people by your side and showing them how to walk life, using the principles from God's scripture, practically living the mountain and also supporting them, it becomes a mutual relationship over supporting one another, and that fellowship becomes strong and deep. And then you see how God's Word Chain word changes, and transforms their marriages and relationships. So
  
  Marcus Denny 17:24
  yeah, just to add to that, you know, Paul says, in first us, you know, we imparted to you our lives. And I think we just see, you can't dismiss you can't separate life and doctrine. You know, you can't plant a church through zoom. You can't plant a church through disinformation, you can't just send over, you know, a bunch of sermons that a bunch of books and just expect, hey, people are gonna, you know, get the doctrine, and then the life's just gonna come after, no, they have to see that hand in hand. And so I think that's been absolutely crucial. And that's even that conviction has just been solidified even since since we've been here. Because we've seen that like Amy was commenting, we have seen even check pastors that have reformed in their theology, but because they themselves were never, you know, under God, the eldership are under godly examples. They've got the right doctrine, but they haven't necessarily learned how to implement that in every aspect of their own lives. So in I think, what we say, and it's the little catchphrase, but you know, you can't be Paul, unless you've been Timothy. So you have to be Timothy, you have to learn not just the truth, but how to live the truth. And as you're modeling that, then the doctrine even sometimes I would say, people are catching the life, they're catching the example before they're catching the doctrine. So sometimes it's the other way around, they see your life like a missed company with this one couple. And then comes the opportunity to take them further into the scriptures and to show them you know, even right doctrine, and that why our lives are the way they are, isn't just because we know, we're nice people, but it's here's the foundation, it is the word of God. It is the sovereignty of God, it is the gospel every day in every aspect of our lives. So that's been huge. And we want to, we want to model that. And I think that we see that we're encouraged as we see even couples in our church that are growing, not just in right theology, not just in biblical doctrine, but they are growing in their ability to live out what the Scriptures call them to do. And because they've had a model, either with us or even with others in the church, they're able to carry that out.
  
  Amie Denny 19:18
  And just a quick note, one really exciting thing is we're kind of getting to the point where point where some of these couples are ready to pass that information on that they're eager to establish discipleship relationships with younger people, and they're like, looking for those relationships, which is just, I mean, a miracle to see it's a true blessing.
  
  Nathan Thiry 19:37
  That's super encouraging. Thanks for sharing that and just exciting to see how God's using his word using you all another faithful brothers and sisters in the life of the church here and Claude, now, tell us about your family a little bit, give us kind of a glimpse into what's your family life, like? What's kind of what has been some of the things that kind of happen in typical week for you guys, tell us about your daughters what they're into now.
  
  Marcus Denny 19:58
  Come on over here. You know, we knew that we were entering into, you know, a very serious mission field very difficult place. And by God's grace, you know, we had good examples at FBC, and other, you know, biblical churches. And so I think by God's grace, we prioritize family, we never want it to be that family that sacrificed our family or our children, on the altar of missions. So we just made a real strong concerted effort to disciple our kids and, you know, worship Christ together and teach them and I think God's you know, he's been very kind and gracious. And I think even Amy has had a huge impact on just discipline our kids, and he's led them to the Lord. So that's a game changer. You know, we don't we don't look at them as like little, little, little missionaries, they were our first mission field. But now that God saved them, and they're growing, they love the Lord. And they've been there since the beginning, they watched themselves, they're excited, they see what God's done in the church as he is growing. So it's thrilling for them. And it encourages them, I think it motivates them. And so it's been a great opportunity for us to work as a, you know, as a family as a unit, not just to, you know, worship Christ together, but to minister together. So we're thankful for the girls love for the Lord and for their love for the church, their love for the last God's using them in their prospective schools, where they're at ministering the gospel. And, you know, just like, just like it FBC got, you know, kids in the school system there, it's not easy. But same thing here, you know, all sorts of kids that are just lost and broken families, and our kids have lost opportunities to minister to them. So we're, we're encouraged by that.
  
  Amie Denny 21:33
  Yeah, I think, just kind of what life looks like, you know, I think it looks very similar to what any of lives of the families at FBC would look like kids going to school and lots of activities, trying to balance, you know, keeping God first priority. With growing independence, our kids are 1816, and 14. And they're starting to build up their own lives and allowing that but also trying to help them navigate the world and be prepared for being adults that can walk in faithfulness, in faith and in love and in the church. And so, yeah, it's been a blessing to even see I'm sure it's a huge amount of Marcus's influence as evangelists that they really have a heart for our two oldest, especially right now, as they're more mature in their faith for for the kids in their school, and they are reaching out to them, can you continue prayers are needed that they would stand firm. But we also pray for our brothers and sisters in the states knowing that the world is increasingly darkening. And knowing that that requires our kids to be very, very firm in their faith. And they were also requires a lot of wisdom from us to impart to them and to help them so that they would not fall and be subjected to the devil schemes.
  
  Nathan Thiry 22:56
  What did that what do you like to do for fun together as a family or or on your own? Or what kinds of things do you do here to enjoy God's creation and just recreate?
  
  Marcus Denny 23:04
  In the past? We did a lot of hiking, so we would spend a lot more time I think, out in the forest. Yeah, every Saturday. Lately, life has just been so busy. So you know, Lydia is in the gun nauseum, which is the basically University Prep School. It's super intense. She used to, you know, she was climbing beforehand, just doesn't have even time for that. She's just, you know, seek, you know, focused on pursuing the Lord and then doing school, Sophie as well. She got accepted into the Prague conservatory music conservatory, which is a huge honor. And she's likewise just, you know, super busy prioritizing the Lord and being faithful to school. So I think we're just thankful when we have opportunities, you know, just to hang out and talk when even the kids will just be like, Hey, let's Can we just, we just hang out at home? Just have dinner? Yeah, just talk on a walk, you know, we, you know, watch, watch a Mandalorian or something. You know, we do stupid stuff to you. So it's, I think it's just a precious time. We recognize how fast how fleeting this time is. And we just really treasure I think more and more, I think we just both of us realize this time was short and sweet. So and they recognize it too, I think and we just appreciate and we have opportunities together just to talk and hang out.
  
  Amie Denny 24:23
  I think we also try to use utilize vacation time just to catch up big time in those hikes. hikes are awesome, have the first no one really wants to talk everybody's kind of in their own head and then get into first our second hour and everybody starts opening up and you start having really good conversations. So we go in, that's kind of our way we go on vacations, we kind of stick local and check and go places that are beautiful, and we can spend the whole day cut out nature, and we just end up talking and kids end up goofing off and Marcus goes off actually more than the kids. It's really fun.
  
  Nathan Thiry 24:56
  That's great. Tell us some ways we can be praying for you all
  
  Marcus Denny 24:59
  Yeah, you know, I mean, just for us personally, as we just mentioned, just the guy would just increase our own love for Christ. I think the first seven years here, because things were just so small, you know, we were just very focused on check. And then just ministering the few people in the church and the few contacts we had. Minister was much more simple. And I think it was easier really to prioritize Christ, just practically there was just more time now with, you know, the, the age of the kids and where we're at as a church. I mean, you know, what, we're, you know, churches yesterday, we had 80 people at church, and which is huge for us huge. And there's just a lot going on. And so that, I think the prayer would be that we would, you know, be Mary, Mary, you know, Luke 10, just prioritizing Christ, and then that we would faithfully shepherd the church, for shepherding our kids and then shepherd in the church, that God would raise up shepherds in the church. So we see a potential we see even just some young young men and some young couples that have some potential and even some desire. So we're thankful for that. Part, just continue to pray for the elders for myself. And for Daniel Atomo. Ski, who is a co elder is an encouraging brother and, you know, loves the Lord loves his family, and loves the church and just growing in ministry together. So even just our relationship that we just continue to grow and love for one another, and just just a real, like, there'd be a sense of camaraderie in the ministry and putting our hands to the plow together and not looking back. And just the guy would raise up a church that really is equipped for the work of service. And that it would really be that kind of church where it's like, yeah, this is not just, it's not a one man show. It's not a couple of people doing the work. But it really is a church that's matured, and ministering to one another, encouraging one another, even reproving, your rebuking and counseling and helping one another. So those would be some of the things,
  
  Amie Denny 26:54
  I think the only other thing I could add, is just pray for unity. And you can always see that as things start to progress. And people start to grow that Satan just doesn't want that. And he wants to use anything, anything at all, if possible, to destroy unity amongst the people of a growing and thriving church, certain things using things like pride using things like just disagreements regarding very superficial things, relational discord, just that God would continue to build the faith of his servants, all of us so that we would refuse sin, we would say yes to the Lord and obedience and in the sense of like, taking off sin and putting on his character, character, the Holy Spirit. So I think that's, that's a big prayer request.
  
  Nathan Thiry 27:47
  That's great. Well, it's our privilege to pray for you all and to partner with you. And we're so thankful for your example of faithful ministry and just love for Christ's love for His church. And thank you for establishing his church here. And we're really thankful for you, um, tell us some what are some things you're looking forward to? What's coming up for you all in the in the near future? Some things that you're you're excited about, that we can be praying about with you all?
  
  Marcus Denny 28:11
  Yeah, we've got our church retreat coming up first week of July. And it's a it's a really blessed time. For us as a church, we started doing this. We've been doing church retreats for a long time. But once COVID hit, we started doing week long ones. And those just proved to be an incredibly blessed time very, very strategic for the people to spend time together for a whole week to sitting under the word, you know, fellowshipping together, spending time outside, just you know, hiking and having fun. So, what we'll be doing that we're ramping up for that. That's a huge, huge blessing. Next year, we'll continue on with our men's and women's meetings. So those have been likewise just very instrumental. I think for building relationships, discipleship, relationships, and partying, sound doctrine and godly living. The women are going through
  
  Amie Denny 28:59
  loving messy people by Scott mill,
  
  Marcus Denny 29:02
  yes, loving, messy people. So that's been very good. I've had a lot of good discussions. We went through a MacArthur's brave dad. And now we're going through the spiritual disciplines of the godly life of the Christian life, Donald Whitney, and yeah, these are just like, you know, basic things, but very well laid out in his instrumental for the church. So and I just wanted to add to just to thank you guys, as a church, you know, I recognize you know, you just hear my voice. And a lot of you that are maybe listen to this, I've never met never met me, but I do recognize too I go to, will show up at FBC and people that I've never met or walking up saying, like, Hey, I pray for you every Tuesday or I pray for you, like three times a week or, you know, it's just a huge and huge encouragement. And we're mindful that we really are an extension. So this is not our ministry. This is Ephesians. Four. It's like because FBC did that work, the equipping of the saints for the work of service. It's like God raised up other men in the church there and has sent them out all over the state. and even under different countries. So we recognize very clearly, you know, we're an extension of the work that you guys are doing there. That's a huge, you know, honor for us to be supported by you to be prayed for by you to be encouraged by you as a church. So we just want to thank you. We recognize that we we couldn't be here. You know, admissions can't happen without money. It can't happen without financial support, and it can't happen without prayer. So we're very thankful for our partnership and the Gospel.
  
  Nathan Thiry 30:28
  Thanks for taking time to talk with us today. Do you have any parting word of exhortation or encouragement for us, Marcus or Amie
  
  Marcus Denny 30:34
  does press on, keep doing what you're doing. You know, you guys are blessed in the nations are blessed and through us your blessing, you know, this country, your blessing our church. So don't don't slack up, man. Just keep doing what you're doing. You know, you guys as elders and pastors, just keep equipping those men and keep sending them out. You know, and I know that you guys are doing a ton, you know, you're given a ton, there's a lot of cost. But as Christ said, I mean, you guys are storing up treasure in heaven. You know, there's no doubt about that. So just continue to do that. Keep pressing on and keep encouraging us as well. Keep telling us to be faithful. Keep telling us to keep our hands to the plow. And the Lord will come back soon and we'll we'll have a reward.
  
  Nathan Thiry 31:16
  I love it. Love you all, and we're thankful for you and yeah, thanks for spending time talking today.
  
  

Dan Jarms

Dr. Dan Jarms is teaching pastor and team leader at Faith Bible Church in Spokane Washington, as well as associate dean at TMS Spokane. He has been married for over 30 years to Linda, and has three adult children. He earned his B.A. in English at the Master’s College, B.Ed. at Eastern Washington University, M.Div and D.Min in Expository Preaching at The Master’s Seminary. His other interests include NCAA basketball, gardening, brick oven cooking.

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Marcus Denny

Marcus and his wife Amie were highly involved in ministry here at Faith before being sent down to The Master’s Seminary. During their time in Southern California Marcus completed his pastoral training in a small but growing church. The Dennys have been serving in the Czech Republic since 2009 where they continue to be used by the Lord to establish a healthy church in a highly atheistic country.

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Nathan Thiry

Nathan Thiry is the Growth Groups & Outreach Pastor at Faith Bible Church. He enjoys biking and outdoor activities, and has a passion to see the gospel spread throughout our community and the whole world!

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