Wednesday 23 December 2009

Hi again, and a very Happy Christmas and peace and goodwill to you all!

York has recently been regularly and beautifully covered with fresh snow, and I am hopeful with the prospect of my first white Christmas in a long time. I have decided that York is indeed colder than Norwich, but I have as yet managed to avoid being incapacitated by any climate adjustment disorder!



I was blessed and privileged to be able to spend some time with John McKay and Randall Hardy, dear friends and leaders within the ministry of Creation Research (John is the director and chief speaker and Randall is responsible for the mailings, literature, and speaking engagements in the UK):


Elijah Kirik's birthday entailed the creation of an edible skate park (not life-size) which I believe he was pleased with:


James (my landlord and housemate) and I wanted to investigate the flaming Christmas pudding phenomenon, and decided that it would be a good idea to turn off the lights for full effect. Behold the full effect:


I was really excited to be able to return to Norwich for the Servants Church Christmas play:





During the play I heard a song called "God Is With Us" for the first time and immediately loved it, I pray that it blesses you too:



...I also had the chance to do some street evangelism with the guys from church on the Saturday before, here's a shot of John sharing the Gospel:


...and had a chance to fellowship with brothers and sisters that I haven't seen since the August Family Camp:



...as well as eat a rocking horse that Noelle Brown made me:


At the office we had a delivery of 16,000 new copies of "Revolution In World Missions". This is the space they were destined for before we unloaded them:


...below is a shot of the books sitting outside in the freezing cold. It seemed that the trodden ice was not going to be helpful to us as we carried the book boxes in. In the absence of proper grit we used table salt to try and melt the ice. Unsuccessfully. I am hoping the next deliver will be in the Spring!


...and this is the filled up space after much elbow grease!


We pray that each of these books would represent a sponsored missionary, that everyone that reads one would be stirred up to live their lives to fulfil the Great Commission and be focused on eternity. At the end of the day this isn't about books, or money, or even missionaries, but about souls brought to Christ.