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Preaching today…

Activity: Morning Service
Venue: New Farm Chapel. SO24 9QH ·
Time: 10.30am
Subject: Amazing Grace!
Bible Passage: Luke chapter 23 verses 32-43

Latest Counties Ignite Magazine Summer 2025.

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Contents

7: Rachel Jordan-Wolf: A Vision for the Future
8-11: Equipping everyday evangelists to spread the Gospel
12-15: One family’s journey as they seek God
16-19: A unique partnership between a local church and a high school
20-23: Why Young People are Opening the Word Again
24-26: One Young Person’s Journey of Finding Jesus
27-29: Evangelism in the Everyday
30-31: Hope and Redemption Behind Bars
32-34: Bob Telford tells us about a unique mission method

Preaching today…

Activity: Morning Service
Venue: South Hayling URC. Hayling Island. PO11 9EY
Time: 11.00am
Subject: ‘Curiosity Satisfied‘ – The Queen of Sheba
Bible Passage: 1 Kings 10:1-13

Good News Camp 2025 – Photo Bomb #2
A superb week, so many prayers andswered!

a FANTASTIC week @ Good News Camp 2025 (Photo Bomb #1)

Hampshire Youth Camp run by Counties Hants

Good News Camp (Sunday August 17th to Friday August 22nd 2025) is up & running! It’s gonna be a good one!
(photos from previous Camps)

We ask prayer for:

Safe travel for everyone to and from the site.
Unity & balance in the team – we have a variety of helpers with different backgrounds and experience– pray that we will all complement each other in our various roles.
For Gordon as he prepares & shares talks from Luke’s gospel.
For Moose, Naomi & Penny the Leadership Team.
For a good time spiritually – that the week will be marked with conversions and spiritual growth.
Health & safety – accidents do happen – pray with us that any accident/health issue will be insignificant and handled well!

Good News Camp Site Set Up!
An afternoon & evening of preparing & decorating the site (Fun theme ‘Adventure Cruise’) ready for the rabble to arrive tomorrow – now where did I put that check list?

A service for the residents at Hawthorne Court. Southampton.

Todays service will be:

Hymn: Morning has broken.
Prayer.
Collective Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer (traditional).
Memory jogger: You are my sunshine.
Short talk #1: Gordon Curley.
Sunday School Action song: From the rising of the sun.
Short talk #2: Gordon Curley.
Hymn: Rock of ages.
Closing Prayer.

Hawthorne Court specialises in dementia care.

A surprise visit to the Corner from AP better known on YouTube as the Apostate Prophet, AP (Ridvan Aydemir) is an Ex-Muslim, Turkish-German YouTuber known for critiquing Islam. I think he got an easy time as many of the top dawah Moslems were absent.
Another particularly good afternoon that started with an influx of Orthodox Jews, all willing to talk and debate, and so Chris and I took up the challenge.
Other conversations took place during the afternoon with Moslem men, these seem to be productive and all was going well, then during my final polite and respectable conversation with a Moslem man another Moslem man decided he would join in, or rather hijack the conversation and turn it into a monologue, as a result it turned into one big mega argument with lots of shouting! Not the best way to finish the day but that is Speakers Corner.

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov

Last week, Shalini was kicked and Jason was punched twice by those who belong the religion of peace! The summer period always sees gangs of young Moslem men from Saudi Arabi flooding the Corner and acting as if they own the park and can do what they like. Glad to say that in all the madness there are many sensible Moslems who want to debate and not cause trouble. One thing for sure, it aint gonna be dull!

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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.