It has been encouraging to hear from so many of you regarding this year’s conference. We expect a really good number of folks from throughout the country to be in attendance. Let me make a couple of requests of those of you who will be coming.
I trust you will take the time to read this email carefully. There are a number of things I need to report to you. I would much prefer to sit down over a hot drink and discuss these things with you face to face as this medium seems so impersonal at times. Regrettably, that’s not possible. This is the best any of us can do with our present limitations. Please read and above all please pray.
As Paul moved toward the conclusion of his letter to the church at Rome, he urged his brothers and sisters to join in my struggle by praying to God for me (Romans 15:30 NIV). When John was writing to encourage Gaius in his faithful support of the itinerant preachers moving among the churches, he argued we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth (3 John 8 ESV). We are pleased to invite local churches and likeminded Christians to join us in the struggle of church-planting work in England and beyond through their prayers and to support this work through their finances on either an occasional or ongoing basis. This prayer guide is produced to give you an idea of the sorts of prayer needs we have at the moment as well as the ways in which the work can be supported financially.
All friends of Grace Baptist Partnership are encouraged to attend our annual conference 29th – 31st of August at Grace Baptist Church, Angel, Islington, EC1R 1XD.
By all accounts, Ali McLachlan’s recent trip to Germany was especially blessed of the Lord. Thank you for your prayers. It appears the Lord is working in Austria as well. An Austrian man who desires training as a church planter is planning to move to Wetzlar and the need for offering training in Austria itself is being prayerfully researched. We look to the Lord to provide the men and means to forward His purposes.
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Grace Baptist Partnership will have a joint worship service at Grace Baptist Church, North Watford on 29 June 2013 beginning at 3:00pm. After the service we will enjoy a bring and share meal. The day will include preaching, music, testimonies, prayer time and a special feature. Do make plans to attend.
The brothers meeting at Wood Green changed their normal gathering time and place this month in order to participate in a church planting conference at Union Chapel in Bethersden, Kent. It was a real joy for me to speak to the forty or so in attendance about Biblical principles for church planting in the morning and best practice for church planting in the afternoon. Specific discussion (and prayer) focused on developing plans for a new church plant in Maidstone.
On Saturday 5th May 2013, ten Christians from Chelmondiston and Ipswich met at the home of Pastor Dave Kelland for prayer and designation of areas to visit with invitations to a series of talks on ‘The Bible – It is Relevant Today!’ at the Shotley Village Hall starting on Wednesday 15th May.
Recently a team from two churches in the United States spent seven days with Grace Church Southall (London, UK) doing outreach activities. Read here to find out what they got up to.
