Archive for November, 2024

Always look forward to our monthly visit at Hawthorne Court, Southampton for a short Christian service with residents & staff.

This month’s fun theme/ memory jogger will be: Remember.
Bible Theme: God keeps his promises

Todays service will be:
Hymn: O God our help in ages past.
Prayer, followed by The Lord’s Prayer (traditional)
Sunday School Song: This little light of mine.
Hymn: What a friend we have in Jesus
Closing Prayer.

Hawthorne Court specialises in dementia care.

A cracking day at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London, with some great conversations with people from Pakistan, USA, France, Portugal, Bulgaria and God even crossed my path with a trainee Russian pilot!
No arguments today, just one useful discussion after another, now why can’t it be like that all the time!

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” — C.S. Lewis
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Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe the tradition is connected to the right of the condemned to a last speech before being hung at the Tyburn gallows, a practice that stopped at the end of the 18th century. Every Sunday people from all sorts of convictions come to Hyde Park in the afternoon to spread their message or to have fun.

Preaching today…

Activity: Morning Service
Time: 10.30am
Subject: ‘But I tell you…’
Bible Passage: Matthew chapter 5 verses 17-48
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Homeward Bound
At Chisinau International Airport waiting for my plane home!
Exhausted and exhilarated, a great time!

MM 2024 Thank you for your Prayerful support!

Praise God that we have seen a high response of people responding to the gospel. {lease remember 3 things about these missions:

1. Weeks of prayer from the believers in the city and villages has led to many people having been prepared by God to listeto and receive the message and I believe the mission has been especially fruitful because of that.

2. With the language and culture differences it is not always easy to get the bottom of how much people have understood, but as far as possible we have reported what took place.n
No one is claiming that all the people who reponded have been converted, that is why we call them ‘responders’ not converts.

3. Local pastors and missionaries have been present at every event collecting names, noting responses etc. The follow up will, for the most part, be thorough and many will come to a clear understanding and a conversion experience during the discipleship course.

I hope this summary and these comments are helpful. Other evangelists have been working in the area as well as myself and they are reporting people turning to Christ as well.
Thank you for your prayer support during the mission – it was much needed and appreciated!

John chapter 4 verse 37:
“Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.”

Well it;s almost all over for another year, today we have two review meetings.

10.00am Meeting with the Pastor’s.
1.00pm Team meeting and lunch.

The evenagelistic meetings are now concluded but the follow up work for the Pasots goes on! I am also encouraged that that the Spirit of God continues to work in the hearts of men, love the litttle parable of Jesus in Mark 4:26-29,

“Jesus said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

MM 2024 Blog #9:
Today we were preaching in the Cantemir Districtof Moldova.

Sunday Morning Service:
A very enjoyable service with great singing and an engaged congregation, Everyone was invited to stay after the service to enjoy a meal, this was put on because we came to visit.
Jamie: testimony
Gordon: Preach
21 people, 3 kids
6/7 responses

Afternoon F.R.A.N.K. meeting.
A chat and preach while sitting around a table, intimate but effective, thee pre-message conversation was good and the ice broken before the gosprl was shared.
Jamie: testimony
Gordon: Preach
11 people with four adults there for the first time.
3 responses

Evening F.R.A.N.K. meeting.
This was held in the Church and so many from the village attended, once gain many were there for the first time!
Jamie: testimony
Gordon: Preach
30 people
8 responses

Today my team will be at Baiamaclia/Frumusica,

Frumușica is a commune in Floreşti District, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Frumușica and Frumușica Nouă
Baimaclia is a commune in Cantemir District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Acui, Baimaclia, and Suhat.

Gordon and Viorel Jamie snd Darian
First meeting 10:00 at Frumusica.
Then Baiamaclia at 2.00pm & 4.00pm

MM 2024 Blog 8:

Today my team are at Al Caza, near Etulia on the Ukrainnian border.

FRANK Meeting #1;
22 people (including us) strange setting beside a supermarket, people walking in and out, phones going off at inaproipriate times, noisy tractor parked next to us with loud ebgine runnijng while he went in the shps, and in all the madness God was at work!
8 kids(it was good to do a kids talk just for them, great to see their faces light up and see teir smiles)
9 responses (4 from kids)

FRANK Meeting #2;
7 people
3/3 responses, ladies
All outside the church and in a row of houses where the Pastor has been praying for a breakthrough.

FRANK Meeting #3;
13 people outside in the courtyard, the sun shone in their faces (they would not move) and the wind blew, they listening well.
3 kids
6/7 responses (2 kids)