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YOU CAN USE OUR I WILL BE LOOKING OUT FOR MORE OF THESE OUTREACH

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FUTURE
CAR PARK! had situations where the person responsible for making a couple of HOPE magazines and Bibles! Our God is

the decision was not available but then that person
walking in at that very moment and happily agreeing to sovereign. His living Word will go where He wills.
Julie shared, “I will be looking out for more of these
deliveries of Scriptures. The Lord’s timing! outreach opportunities in the future, as I had to depend
Julie’s team also had two hotels that were functioning as on the Lord in many new situations. It gave me an
Centres for Asylum Seekers. The staff initially were very invaluable experience and great fellowship throughout!”
suspicious of the team’s presence but eventually agreed In two days over 1300 Scriptures were distributed with
to have HOPE magazines, whilst accepting Testaments many follow-ups to be made. Each team had their own
for themselves. Also, the young Asylum seekers testimonies of the Lord at work that were shared at the
sitting around outside were happy to chat and accept end of each day. We give thanks for the answered prayer
Testaments as well. and believe that the Lord will use the Scriptures placed
An electric gate at a Secure Home setting had been left in rooms and given to individuals to bring people to a
knowledge of our Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour.
open (someone propping it open & forgetting to shut
it!). The man in charge was amazed and annoyed that Submitted by Philip Ferdani on behalf of the Region 7
the team had driven in. He then unexpectedly accepted and Region 8 Scripture Focus Team.

TRAIN DELAY MEANT

SPRINT TO THE STADIUM

This was the tenth year that there had been
an athletics meeting at the London (formerly
Olympic) Stadium but the first time that
GOOD NEWS for Everyone! had been
involved in it. The organisers were expecting
50,000 people to attend, so this seemed a
wonderful opportunity to reach out with the
new A5-size London HOPE magazines.

We had teams from two branches in North London,
Cambridge and Newport & Lower Wye Valley! As the
athletics meeting ran from 1.00pm to 4.00pm, all our
teams planned to be there in the morning to catch folks as
they were going in, so they had something to read whilst
they were waiting for events to start.
Unfortunately, there were major problems with the Central
underground line, so the Cambridge Branch team were
sitting on the train for a long time before leaving it at the
next station and catching a number 257 bus to Stratford.
They needn't have worried though because there were so
many people passing the steps to the Westfield Centre
next to the Stratford Underground Station that they didn't
have time to draw breath to talk to them as they took the
HOPE magazines. The teams that had arrived on time were Branch, Isaac and Dhushy from the Newport & Lower
in the same position. As one member said, 'To be honest Wye Valley Branch and our Street Pastor colleague
there were so many people going past us that all we could Michelle, who came from Cambridge to help us. But most
do was hand out magazines'! of all our grateful thanks go to our Lord Jesus without
Our grateful thanks go to Ruth, Peter, Chaltu, Glen and whom none of this would have been possible!
Tommy from the London North East Branch, Paula, Submitted by Geoff Mann, (Cambridge Branch), on behalf
Jeremy and Jonathan from the London North West of the Distribution Team.

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