Sunday 21 October 2012

Hello everybody,

Wow, it's been a tiring couple of months! With the Kiriks away there has been plenty to do, but the Lord has sustained us and kept us going despite our weaknesses. He is faithful!


Angie and I have been to a couple of small conferences where we got the chance to remind Christians about the Great Commission and tell them about what the Lord is doing through National Missionaries in Asia:



Special mention goes to friend and supporter Reverend Paul Blackham, who we ran into at the CRE in Manchester. His fiery enthusiasm was an extremely powerful encouragement to us and we were very grateful for seeing him:


Helen White is adjusting well and has courageously dived into the training for her role in Partner Relations. It's a lot to take in, but she is trusting the Lord and is doing us all proud:


We are constantly reminded that it is prayer that will make the real difference in eternity. We can do all the work we want, but without the Lord it's futile fleshly activity. He is the one who will accomplish His will on earth. We've prayed together in our prayer room...


...and also outside of the prayer room! We realise the importance of bathing everything in prayer and keeping the Lord central in our everyday service.


We were wonderfully blessed by Elliot (our web developer) and Anthony (our printer) who visited the office recently to help us out. We consider them both part of our family and are always happy to see them whenever they can cut the time out of their busy schedules to make the trip from London to York.



While dog-sitting got the Kiriks' we discovered their dog's surprising ability of breaking wooden gates.


This prompted some impromptu home DIY:





In case anyone was wondering, we were not severely affected by the recent flooding in the North of England. York only caught the edge of the heavy rainfall and besides a high river and some re-directed traffic we were untouched by it.


Angie has very kindly taken to knitting a couple of Christmas stockings for us both, greatly impressing me with her creativity, skill, and diligence.



Also, not being fans of the traditional Halloween, we decided to use the opportunity to voice a sweeter message to any trick-or-treaters we night get at our door. Again I was very impressed at Angie's creativity:





We are about to enter an extremely busy time. We have the Renew Your Passion conference on Saturday 24th November in Manchester (have you booked your place yet?) and then KP Yohannan will be speaking at St Michael-le-Belfrey in York the day after.

Please pray for the Renew Your Passion conference, that the Lord would use KP Yohannan to encourage all who come and renew their passion for Jesus, for prayer, and for the unreached world. Pray that people who are spiritually dry would get refreshed, and that they would have a renewed understanding that the Great Commission is still ours, still not finished, and still urgent.

Thank you again for reading, and thank you for your love, prayers, support and friendship.

God bless you,

JP & Angie


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