Monday 21 January 2013

Hello dear friends!

Thank you for your prayers for our relocation.

Angie and I moved to Manchester a week and a half ahead of the main office. We packed up our stuff into a rented van, said goodbye to our flat in York and drove to our new home.




This is where our new office is; inside the purpose built "Message Enterprise Centre", also known as the "MEC", and owned by The Message Trust.


Our main office is in the window on the right of this picture below:


Angie and I spent a week and a half working by ourselves in the new office space, waiting for the arrival day of the rest of the office and the GFA family.


There is also a cool cafe inside the MEC with nice coffee and great staff.


Ten days after our arrival the moving team arrived with all our office gear.


Catherine came up ahead of the rest to oversee the movers, she and Angie were charged with making sure everything was put in it's proper place.


The moving team was very good. We told them where we wanted everything (that's our post room below):


...and they did all the heavy lifting...


...and unpacking.


For a while there was stuff everywhere:


This below is our prayer and meeting room:


Soon the rest of the gang arrived started setting up their desks and other areas:


Richard, our new IT guy, and Dan, our old IT guy, both got their heads together and did the tremendous work of getting all our systems connected and going again.


And now here we are, mostly set up and pressing onward!



Our first order of business was to hold an all-hands meeting and thank the Lord for His bringing us to this place. We then re-dedicated ourselves to serving Him, reminding ourselves that everything we do is in worship and service to Him.


This was closely followed by a celebratory team lunch at the MEC cafe!


Anthony and Elliot also came up from London for this meeting, and also to discuss the future of how we are going to get the message of reaching the unreached out to the UK church, and win Asia for Jesus.


It was a busy week, but although we were very tired we very also very satisfied and fulfilled to be doing the Lord's work the Lord's way. Angie and I were also thrilled that we were able to have Anthony, Elliot, Brian and Elijah stay at our house during this time. Elijah isn't in this picture, I think I had already put him to work at this point...


...Elijah helped to make pasta, take out the recycling, make teas and coffees, take up the washing, arrange the salad and clean up. I was very grateful for his service!


Thank you for your prayers, thank you for being a part of reaching the unreached in Asia through your intercession. Please continue to pray for us!

Pray for JP

  • To remember to wait and listen to the Lord
  • To have wisdom, especially for conferences
  • To get the postal follow-up going again
  • To get the Volunteer Network going
  • To plan my time well


Pray for Angie

  • To hear God's voice and leading
  • To make a great video for the RYP conference
  • To be able to finish her many design projects
  • To make a good Lent Leaflet


Pray for both of us
  • For money for Angie's visa
  • To have more personal supporters

Thank you all.

Grace and peace be with you!

JP & Angie