Encouraging Visit

Creation Fest planning meeting at my house.

Just last week Brian Brodersen visited England. He had a packed schedule; he likes to see as many people and do as much as he has time for. So he went to Oxford for the Teach the Word conference. Monday he visited Bristol, where a new work is being planted. On Tuesday following we met for a Creation Fest planning session. That evening he taught the Gateway Fellowship at Yateley, east of where we are. Elliot Wilsher and I have been out there before; his in-laws live out there. We had dinner with Brian before the meeting. He taught a simple, encouraging message from Aaron’s blessing in Numbers 6.

Question and answer time in Yateley.

Wednesday he went to London to meet with the managing director of Premier Radio. Matt Kottman, Doug Keen and I  drove his baggage to York, as we were meeting with Calvary pastors there for a quarterly prayer meeting. We prayed, discussed, ate curry, prayed some more.

Our first prayer session in York.

Discussing weighty matters after a great curry.

He went up to a conference in Scotland and we came home and did our weekend thing (more on that later). Monday he returned to my house. Elliot and Matt met us and we had one more curry in Surbiton.

Quite a lot was accomplished on his trip. It was an answer to my prayer, that the Lord would bless that short time and make it count. The most important thing is that people were encouraged and built up. That is a highly significant work.