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ctivity: All Age Service
Date: 11th May 2025
Time: 10.30am
Speaker: Gordon Curley
Subject: Complete in Christ: From Paul, with Love
Bible Passage: Colossians chapter 1 verses 1-14
YouTube Livestream: CLICK HERE

Preaching today…

Sarisbury Junior School. Southampton – Assemblies (x2).
Love seeing the expressions on the faces of the children as they walk in, you would think someone special had come to see them!
Theme: Grace
Bible story: The Lost/Prodigal Son ( Luke 15:11-24)

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‘Body Builders’ is a monthly inter-Church youth event for anyone aged 8 to 15 years. The series of events finalise with a weekend House Party in Bournemouth. Dorset. UK

‘Body Builders’ Houseparty 2025

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‘Body Builders’ is a monthly inter-Church youth event for anyone aged 8 to 15 years. The series of events finalise with a weekend House Party in Bournemouth. Dorset. UK

BodyBuilders Houseparty’ 2025 (Friday eve to Monday tea-time)

Please Pray:

 Praise God for a good number of youth and leaders (37 onsite).
 Praise God for a great team of volunteer helpers.
 Please pray unity, when young people get tired, problems arise!
 Please pray for safety as we travel around Dorset for a variety of activities.
 Praise God for the freedom we have to run this type of weekend in the UK.
 Please pray for health, we are squeezed into our venue, space is limited and a bug or an illness can ruin a good weekend!
 please pray for spiritual blessing (conversions and growth in believers).
 please pray for spiritual blessing (conversions as well as growth in the believers).
 Please pray for GC as he preaches and leads the main three sessions on the life of Moses.

‘Body Builders’ is an inter-Church youth event for anyone aged 8 to 15 years.
The evening consists of ice-breakers (games & activities), World Vision, DVD’s, Tuck Shop and a short talk.
‘BodyBuilders’ concludes its yearly session with a weekend houseparty.

Park Gate Primary School – Assemblies x2 (9.00am & 2.30pm).
A long overdue visit to our local school, looking forward to meeting the new Head Teacher and watching the reaction from the children, many we know from Kids Clubs, Holiday Clubs and previous visits.

Theme: Responsibility.
Bible story: The two sons (Matthew 21:28-32)

It was great today to enjoy the company of Billy Graham (I kid you not!), Billy is 93 years old and has lost none of his enthusiasm of sharing the gospel (Billy is a former open-air missioner), also in the photo is my Ethiopian brother Gabriel.

A usual day at Speakers Corner, the sun shone, the crowds came and amongst the shenanigans, sensible conversations and arguments took place.
Two highlights today, #1: a good chat with Husain from Saudi Arabia, former Muslim now agnostic seeking the truth. #2: a long chat with a Kurdish man now living in the UK, he is from the Alevi* minorities and these are seen as ‘questionable’ by many other Muslims.

* Alevism (/æˈlɛvɪzəm/; Turkish: Alevilik; Kurdish: Elewîtî is a syncretic heterodox Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Islamic teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, who taught the teachings of the Twelve Imams,

more madness in the park, it had been brewing for an hour or two and finally kicked off towards the end of the day, me thinks it is time to go home!

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.” — James Nathan Miller
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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
Venue: Norreys Church. Wokingham.
Time: 10.00am
Subject: ‘Seeing is believing!’
Bible Passage: John chapter 20 verses 24-29

A memory from the past! A mention on one of Ivor & Angie Cooper’s prayer letters. The year 1987. The reason, I had just completed my first year in full-time Christian ministry (in-service training with the Cooper’s & the Telford’s) , it was now time to move away from the Midlands but where? At that time I did not know what County I should be, I had a calling to join Counties Evangelistic Work (as it was in those days), but no County fixed, it would take another year before I had a calling to go to Hampshire!
Praise God for 39 years of provision of funds, friends/fellow workers!

Praise God for 39 years of provision of funds, friends/fellow workers! “How good is the God we adore!”