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MM 2024 Blog #5:
Morning and evening at Biserica “Speranta” Cahul, for two vwry different meetings.
This morning a meeting of disabled people, the blind, the crippled and many other disabiliyies. The evening was with a large youthgroup and in the afternoon we went to the small village of Cotihanna for a FRANK meeting.

Jamie writes:

Morning big church meeting
Approx 50 people
Gordon testimony
Igor preach
1 response

Afternoon meeting
25 people
Jamie testimony
Gordon preach
5 responses (1 for 2nd time)

Evening youth group meeting
Approx 30 people
Jamie testimony
Gordon preach
No public response, but God seemed to have done something.

Preaching today…

Activity: Morning Service
Venue: Duncan Road Church. SO31 1BD.
Time: 10.30am
Subject: ‘Planning for the future’
Bible Passage: Proverbs 11:3, 14:12, 15:22, 16:9, 21:5, 21:31, 27:1
YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/dV128aS9Z9w?si=3Hum3sJP3kKsJW1T

‘BodyBuilders’ Houseparty 2024 starts tonight at 7.30pm.

We will be squeezed, squashed, stuffed, scrunched, packed, compressed and jammed into various rooms at our Church venue.

We are planning to invade The Llittledown Centre – in the swimming pool can anyone beat The Moose on the Crusher Assault Course?

In Swanage it’s sunshine and ice-cream, drooling at the very thought of it!

A night-time hike over Hengistbury Head Nature Reserve.

And to top it all off our last activity of the weekend a visit to Avon Heath Country Park!

I am shattered just looking at the programme for the bank holiday weekend!

Then throw in a great team of helpers, a little bit of chill time, some Bible teaching from yours truly and some indoor games activities, and of course plenty of good food, food that can only be described as “beyond delicious.”

Me thinks it all adds up to one unforgettable weekend!

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

“Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.”
― Alister E. McGrath, (If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life)

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.

Today and tomorrow provide opportunities to share the message of Jesus in two Residential Care Homes.
Today: Hawthorne Court. 112.00am
Tommorow: Hamble Heights. 2.00pm
A joy to share the good news of Christmas with residents and staff.

Always encouraging to read Sermon Centrals weekly report, a reminder that the text of a sermon can be a blessing to others:

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IGNITE Counties Ignite Magazine Winter 2023.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Pages 6-7 Happy 125th anniversary, Counties. 2024 will see us celebrate all that God has done and continues to do.
Pages 8-9 Counties CEO Martin Erwin is visiting the regions to share how together,
we might see local churches grow through sharing the Gospel and making
disciples. He talks to Ignite.
Pages 1O-11 270 people from across the country attended Counties Connect Conference in
October. Kara Purdy, 21, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, shares her reflections.
Pages 12-13 Stevie Walker and Steve Cowles are Counties newest evangelists, having
completed the Evangelist Training Programme (ETP). But their backgrounds
couldn’t be more different.
Pages 14-15 Sue Ashmole is Counties Neighbourhood Chaplains Coordinator.
She took over the role at the start of 2023. Ignite caught up with her,
amidst her busy schedule, to find out how she’s been getting on.
Pages 16-19 Two Counties Evangelists share how God’s love is at work in men
on opposite sides of life who have been hardened by it.
Pages 2O-23 The Great Commission is at the heart of Counties own mission – making
disciples. But what of baptism? Senior Evangelist, Roger Chilvers, takes a look.
Pages 24-25 How a prophetic picture of scattering seeds turned Saffron Walden Community
Church into a packed, thriving congregation with a new café style hub.
Pages 26-29 Making Jesus Known Today and Tomorrow: Spreading the Gospel in
Twenty-First Century Britain. If you haven’t already read Counties new
book. CEO Martin Erwin gives a flavour of its unmissable contents.
Pages 3O-33 The transgender debate currently looms large in our society. As Christians,
how do we approach this issue? Steve McQuoid looks at a biblical approach.
Pages 34 Just a Minute with Gordon Curley.

A jolly good time was had by all!

AM – prayer & share time
PM – Dan Randall ( Hope together)
Presentation and discussion on
Understanding the Now and Embracing the Mystery of the Future.

Counties South West Cluster Group Day (Organised by Penny).
A chance to catch up and support (and be supported) collegues in all of our varied ministries

‘The sin of pride’ – Isaiah chapter 9 verses 8 to chapter 10 verses 34 – sermon by Gordon Curley

(PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

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Last assembly before the summer holidays — at Sarisbury Junior School. Southampton.