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Looking forward to some good food and good conversation with the folk at WEC.

What: Harvest Supper.
Where: West End Chapel. Fareham. Hants.
What: Giving a short talk/epilogue.

Harvest is from the Anglo-Saxon word hærfest, “Autumn”.
Farmers celebrated the end of the harvest with a big meal called a harvest supper. Some churches and villages still have a Harvest Supper.

The modern British tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall. Victorian hymns such as “We plough the fields and scatter”, “Come ye thankful people, come” and “All things bright and beautiful” helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service.

What: Assembly:
Where: Marchwood Infant School. Southampton. Hants.
Theme: courage & overcoming difficulties.
Bible Story: The four friends who took a paralysed man to Jesus.
(Mark chapter 2 verses 3-11)

Marchwood Infant School was first contacted with the Counties ‘Key to Life’ Expo in 2023 and this has opened up a regular opportunity to take assemblies.

Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

“Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.” —Nat Turner

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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…

Where: Duncan Road Church
Time:10.30am
Subject: ‘A River, A Dove & A Voice.’
Bible Passage: Matthew chapter 3 verses 13-17
YouTube Livestream: CLICK HERE

It’s conference time! This year I will be not be reporting but chairing the afternoon session! Trying to keep evangelists to a 5 or 9 minute time slot!

What: Bristol Evangelists Conference.
Where: Venue: Speedwell Chapel. Bristol. BS5 7SA
(Morning Workers Bible Study 10.30am led by Paul Young)

When: Afternoon Session 3.15pm to 5.15pm.
When: Evening Session 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Everyone Welcome!

Mid-September to December News/Prayer Letter 2024

News/Prayer Letter: CLICK HERE

I would value your prayers today as I take the Funeral and Thanksgiving service for Maureen McClenaghan who recently passed away. Maureen was a regular at our Hawthorne Court services and used to attend West End Chapel. Fareham.

Pray that what is shared will bring comfort to the family & friends who attend and that something of the message of hope we have in Jesus Christ will challenge and help others to come to faith in the Saviour.

“And when I think that God, his Son not spar­ing,
Sent him to die, I scarce can take it in,
That on the cross, my bur­den glad­ly bear­ing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.”

Venue: Porchester Crematorium.
Time: 12.15pm

Preaching today…

Where: Southfield Church. Nailsea. BS48 1SB
Bible Passage: Psalm 133
Subject: ‘Unity’
Time: 10.30am

School assembly (x2) at Sarisbury Junior School. Southampton.
This week I have been given the theme: Being Part of a Community.