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Tomorrow will be the halfway point of the week for The Life Expo in Chichester, the four schools who have attended in the first two days have been very enthusiastic, as you can see from the teachers quotes below!

One teachers from The Parklands Community school Chichester wrote in the visitors book,

“The Life Exhibition was very informative and all of the children were engaged throughout. The staff were really friendly and accomnodating and the experience was very smooth.
A fantastically well organised and snoothly run event. The children were all engaged and seemed to really enjoy the experience.”

Two teachers from The March CofE Primary School Chichester wrote in the visitors book,

“Thank you for an interactive, thought provoking experience to enhance their thinking about Jesus.”

“Thank-you so much. The children really enjoyed it and it has built on and developed our R.E. teaching in school.”

For further information click here for an overview of the expo.

The Life exhibition is all set up and ready to go! First class of the day will arrive at Swanfield Chapel, Chichester at 9.20am.

This week Monday to Friday the (Counties) Life exhibition will be hosted at Swanfied Chapel with a variety of local schools beinmg transported in each day.

The Life Exhibition is a multi-media experience designed for primary school children which complements and works alongside existing RE teaching. Using interactive tablets, QR codes, graphics, quizzes, films, songs and a discussion café, Life helps children learn – in just over one hour – about the story of Jesus and his relevance today.

The exhibition is often FREE to schools thanks to the sponsorship of local churches (like Swanfield Chapel) and Counties. It is aimed at Year 5 & Year 6 pupils, although sessions can be adapted to include pupils in Year 3 & Year 4.

Fot further information: Click Here

After a three week break it is good to be back at Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London. The winter nights make for a shorter time with visitors and tourists but the die hards will continue to chat and debate under the portable lights that many regulars bring with them.

“One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!” ~ T.L. Osborn

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 spead their message or to have fun.

Venue: Duncan Road Church. Southampton. SO31 1BD
Activity: All Age Service
Date: 13th November 2022
Time: 10.30am
Speaker: Gordon Curley
Subject: ‘A Rebellious Nation’
Bible Passage: Isaiah chapter 1 verses 1-31

Thank you for your prayer support during the mission – it was much needed and appreciated!

Mission 2 finished on Sunday and it has been another wonderful week with our 4 evangelist + Mark McCormick (the organiser from Moldovan Mission) speaking in a total 48 FRANK groups sometimes in pairs sometimes in singles.

There were an approximate total of 497 unsaved FRANKs (Friends, Relatives And Next of Kin) that heard the gospel with 171 of them making commitments to Christ, of these each evangelist saw people responding and often with tears in their eyes. Please pray for the Pastors who will follow up and invite who responded to a weekly discipleship course.

NOTE: We had fewer meetings this mission due to the glorious sunshine that we enjoyed each day! The sunshine allowed people to get ready for winter by gathering and cutting up firewood etc, but the downside for us they were not available in the daytime to attend the house meetings. We were surprised by the number who instead turned up to a combined evening meeting held in the Baptist Churches!

So we praised God that together we prayed and rejoice together how God has answered those prayers.

At Chisinau International Airport waiting for my plane home!
Exhausted and exhilarated, a great time!

Final team meal together!
Joshua, Lance, Marie, Ecaterina, Angela, Serge, Steven, Mark (& GC taking the photo)

NOTE

I have cribbed some thoughts posted by Bob telford on his Whatts App support group page – I think they are relevant to my mission as well!

We have seen a high response of people responding to the gospel. I want you to be clear about 4 things:

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

2. I have been careful to UNDER REPORT the numbers rather than risk exaggeration. With the language and culture differences it is not always easy to get the bottom of how much people have understood, so I’ve been conservative in my reportage.

3. No one is claiming that all the people who reponded have been converted, that is why we call them ‘responders’ not converts.

4. 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. Thanks again for love, prayers. Pray us safe home tomorrow please. I’ll send a final update when I’m home. God bless.
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Preaching today in Giurgiulești
Morning in the Church followed by four additional home meetings throughout the day at 2pm, 4pm, 6pm & 8pm.

(Giurgiulești is a commune in the Cahul District of Moldova. It is also a border crossing point to Romania).

It was super to work alongside Pastor Sasha today, we (Ecaterina my translator and myself) shared the good news of the gospel from five different Bible passages, I had not intended a different message for each group but that is how I felt led by the Holy Spirit. Maybe the different messages helps to keep me fresh but that makes it harder work for Ecaterina!

The last meeting of the day (sorry no photo for this one) was also held in a home. A Christian lady invited us to enjoy a meal and while we were eating her non-Christian husband, Father and teenage son also joined us for the food. I was asked to give an impromptu talk and it was so natural to pick up a loaf of bread and use it for an illustrative talk, I was able to link together three Bible stories, Jesus the bread of life, Jesus and the last supper and Jesus on the road to Emmaus, all three men of this house (representing three generations of the family) listened attentivly to the talk and eye contact was maintained throughout. A great end to a busy day!

A quiter day today, Steve, myself and our translator Ecaterina went to Slobozia to speak in a meeting organised at the church building. About 40 unChurched people attended and great to see 15 people respond to the gospel.

I do not expect much has changed since this video was made in 2016!

Meeting #1: A visit to the Consiliul Raional Cahul to meet Președintele Raionului Cahul (Nicolae Dunas). Good to chat over coffee and pray with and for him.

Meeting 2: A more traditional house meeting at Iepureni.
Steve preached on Luke chapter 15 and folk responded well to the message.

Meeting 3: Another traditional house meeting at Iepureni.
Sad to hear the story of how the man in the photo was paralysed but good to share the story of the lame man with him and two of his neighbours (Luke chapter 5) that Jesus healed. Bringing hope into a home of sorrow.

Meeting #4; This time at the Church in Iepureni.
20 people from the village came along and although I messed up the appeal (I tried something different and confused folk), it was a thrill to know of several men who responded to the call to trust Christ!