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Day 8 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Grays, Essex

February 8, 2016

Buoyed by the successes of the previous year – the formation of the Partnership, the planting of three churches and the revitalisation of another – 2011 began with great promise. The first day of the year found us going door to door in Grays inviting people to the Sunday services where I would be preaching for the next few months and to a weekly evangelistic Bible study based on John Blanchard’s ‘Ultimate Questions’ booklet. We had high hopes for this work. They would soon be dashed.

Day 7 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire

February 7, 2016

What’s wrong with your church, the lady asked? Not even the Christians in the village will go there! Lest you make the mistake of thinking – as I did – that she was just a busybody who didn’t know what she was talking about; she was right. Exactly right.

Day 6 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Chingford, Waltham Forest

February 6, 2016

After a period of decline left Kings Road Baptist Church in North East London with few members and no officers, services in the chapel were suspended. In 2012 Grace Baptist Partnership – in fellowship with Home Mission – developed a plan to replant the church. With the support of Hayes Lane Baptist Church in Bromley, Bernard Roberts and his wife Michelle were set aside to lead the work. Now more than three years into the project, they are seeing fruit for their labour and the small, increasingly-healthy church is growing.

Day 5 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Chelmondiston, Suffolk

February 5, 2016

What do you do when six of your eight church members leave? I suppose it depends on why they left. If they left because you were guilty of doctrinal or moral infidelity, you should repent and step down from church office. If they left because of unresolved personal differences, you should seek reconciliation without delay. But what if you sought such reconciliation and your efforts were effectively rebuffed? What do you then? For David Kelland and his wife these are not hypothetical questions but the exact situation they faced in Chelmondiston little more than three years ago.

Day 4 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

February 4, 2016

Church planting is not as glamorous as it looks. Ask the friends at Chatteris. They can tell you. Many times they have known the reality of being exhausted by the fight and exasperated by the fault-finders. They have oft embodied what it means to be faint, yet pursuing. But, to the praise of God, though they have often been faint they have never been faint-hearted.

Day 3 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Charlwood, Surrey

February 3, 2016

My questioner came straight to the point. Everything that can be done has already been done. People have prayed. People have evangelised. Meetings have been organised. Nothing has happened. Isn’t it prideful of you to think you will succeed where others have failed? I resisted the temptation to respond with the obvious rejoinder – Isn’t it prideful of you to think that no one else can succeed because you have failed? – and gave what I trust was a more helpful (and humble) reply.

Day 1 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Angel, Islington

February 1, 2016

Today we begin 29 Days of Prayer and Giving for Grace Baptist Partnership. Each day we will focus our attention on a particular church planting, church replanting or church revitalisation project in which we have an interest. We trust you will remember these situations in prayer and that you will take advantage of the opportunity to support the spread of the gospel by means of a donation to Grace Baptist Partnership this month. It will also help us if you will share these requests with your friends by forwarding these emails to them.

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