We are all really tired at the moment! Praise the Lord for strength and travelling mercies to get through our hectic season of conferences. Soon we will be able to put all our exhibition stand equipment away for a season!


New Wine Shepton Mallet 23rd July - 6th August

I went down to Shepton Mallet for my third year at New Wine.


Once again I called upon the generous hospitality of Colin and Jean, and was again blessed beyond abundance. Colin let me to help set up our stand:


...and Jean faithfully made sure I was well fed and watered:


For the first week the stall was manned by Colin, myself, and Lesley-Anne:


...this was our stall in the Exhibition Hall:


...Colin and Lesley-Anne were diligent and faithful to share the cry of the unreached world with every Christian who came across us:



...and we got sponsorships! Praise the Lord! I got pictures of 4 of them (we got 5 in total):





For the second week Jean replaced Lesley-Anne at the stall. She spoke to many people about how the Lord is reaching the lost in Asia through National Missionaries, and gave out many free copies of "Revolution in World Missions":



This is a picture of Jean, Jean, Colin and Colin!


Grapevine 26th - 30th August

Last week I drove to the Lincolnshire Showground for the Grapevine conference:


...I got completely soaked while putting up my tent! Still, the rain has it's benefits:


I set up camp next to Richard and Brenda's campervan:


Richard and Brenda kindly committed to helping to man our stall at Grapevine:


...and tirelessly encouraged people to consider the reality of 80,000 people dying in Asia without Christ every day:




...and one couple sponsored a missionary!


Richard and Brenda also took charge of looking after me while I was at Grapevine, ensuring that I was properly fed and cared for:




...and helped to secure my tent when it seemed entirely possible that it would be carried off by the gales!


Forum 5th September - 9th September

On Monday I am off to Forum, which is a UCCF event, hosted by the Quinta Convention Centre:


Forum's aim is to equip University Christian Union leaders for mission. It is our first time there and we hope to bring the message of reaching the most unreached in Asia to them. I would appreciate your prayers for strength and energy for my time there!

At The Office

Please pray for the completion our new website. The old one has died, and we have been struggling to get the new one completed. Some of us have been working longer hours to try and get it finished, and we would appreciate your prayers!


It should go live on Monday, but the sponsor function does not work. We will be a sponsorship organisation whose website does not allow sponsorship :-(

Thanks for your patience and kindness!

News from Norwich

I have heard that dear friend Libby Dean, wife and mother of 3, went home to be with the Lord after a battle with cancer.


I am planning to be at the funeral in Norwich on Friday 9th, which will be at 11:45am at St. Faith's Crematorium, followed by a thanksgiving service next door. Please remember the Deans in your prayers, for peace and comfort from the Lord.

Thank you for spending this time with me,

JP

Hello Prayer Team,

Greetings again from semi-sunny York! Thank you for your prayers for the Big Church Day Out conference. It was a really encouraging time, we spoke to many people about the work the Lord is doing through Asian missionaries, gave out over 400 free copies of "Revolution In World Missions", and 3 people sponsored missionaries that very weekend. The journey down was eventless, the two volunteers, Mike and Arul, were a blessing, and all the equipment was present and effective. Thank you for covering me with protection.

I would like to call upon your prayers again! On Saturday I am going to Shepton Mallet for the New Wine conference, just like last year, and would appreciate more prayer cover.


New Wine Shepton Mallet

So this weekend I will be loading up a van with about one and a half thousand copies of “Revolution In World Missions”:


…going on a 5 hour drive:


…and then meeting up with Colin and Jean, with whom I will be staying.


They were kind enough to let me stay with them last year too, which saved me camping all by myself for two weeks! This year I will be taking them up on their hospitality again, and they will also be helping to man the stall, along with another volunteer named Lesley-Anne. Please pray for energy for us for standing at our bookstand each day 10:00am-6:00pm and 8:30pm-10:30pm sharing about what God is doing in Asia. Please also pray that people would understand the Lord’s heart for the unreached world, and that people would sponsor missionaries.


In The Office

I have been training the newest addition to our staff, Catherine, as she will be taking over my role in Partner Relations, so that I can move into a more active role with our volunteers. She has learned quickly so far and I am confident that she will do the job well.


We have been blessed by regular and reliable help from several local volunteers lately:


…Colin and Paul come in every week, and Colin also feels that the Lord is leading him to join us a part-time staff member.

Also, someone called Rowina very recently got to know Gospel for Asia and felt compelled to create a video to help Christians come to grips with how unreached Asia really is. It imagines the world as a village of 100 people, and illustrates the statistics in a very graspable way. She came to visit us and finalise the video last month:


…please pray for the video to be fruitful!

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Prayer Requests:

Strength for, and fruit from, all of the conferences we are going to:
- New Wine Shepton Mallet 23rd July – 6th August
- The Keswick Convention 23rd July – 5th August
- The New Wine Café in Newark 30th July – 5th August
- CreationFest 6th August – 12th August
- The Aberystwyth 6th August – 13th August

Catherine to become fully proficient in her new Partner Relations role.

Protection for Colin as he takes the first steps of becoming a GFA staff member.

For the Lord to use Rowina’s video to capture people with a vision and passion for the Great Commission.

That the Lord would cause our lives to bear fruit for His kingdom, in souls being won in Asia.

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Outside The Office

Angie Lucich and I are officially a couple :-). We both feel as though the Lord has presented us to one another while we’ve served here at Gospel for Asia, and opened a door for us to become more than friends. We are pursuing the relationship and I have taken Angie out to do lots of classy things such as eat macaroni cheese in the street:


In all seriousness it’s an extremely exciting time for me! I know that some of you have been praying along these lines for a long time for me, and I am in your debt, and yet I also ask you to continue to remember us in your prayers as we learn to relate to one another in this new way.

Also, last weekend my Dad and three of my siblings came to York to visit. From left to right this is Jonathan, Joanne, Joseph, and Joshua:


They were able to meet Angie, and we took them walking around various sites in the city:




…we played games:


…they got to meet Brian, Mindy and Elijah:


…and they were also able to get to Caroline’s birthday celebration and see the Gospel for Asia office.



It was a great couple of days; I was so happy that they were able to see where I live and serve, meet my dear friends, and get to know the girl who is stealing my heart :-). I was so blessed with being able to share my life here in York with them! The Lord is so good!

Thank you for your prayers, thank you for your time.

Please continue to pray, please continue to believe. Please continue to serve Him who is worthy, to be enraptured by His love, and to be thrilled that God has reserved a place in Heaven for those who trust in Christ alone.

In this together, together in Him,

JP

Request For Prayer

I am driving down to the "Big Church Day Out" weekend tomorrow, and would appreciate prayer cover! I will be going down to help man a stall where we will be giving away free copies of "Revolution In World Missions", as well as talking about what the Lord is doing through national missionaries, and also encouraging people to sponsor those missionaries. There are supposed to be 10,000 people at this conference.

It will be at the grounds of a place called Wiston House in West Sussex:


...we will be camping outside and I think our stall will be in a marquee.

I will be picking up friend Arul from London:


and meeting another helper called Mike on Saturday morning. My route looks like this:



***Please pray for:

Safe travel
Good sleep!
Many books to be taken and read
Missionaries to get sponsored
People to be stirred up with Jesus' heart for the lost world
More unreached people in Asia to hear the Gospel as a result of this weekend!

Thank you in advance for your prayers!

JP