Thank You - GBC Bulletin Column #51

I want to take the opportunity now to thank you, Grace Life Church of the Shoals, Second Baptist Church of West Frankfurt (Illinois), and Anchored in Truth Ministries for the tremendous blessing of having you serve alongside us a couple of weeks ago, and for your continuing prayers on our behalf.

With your team’s help, we were able to cover much more ground and make a bigger impact than might otherwise have been the case. We have kept record of the contacts that were made through door-to-door and street evangelism and continue to follow them up. While their lives are often complex and there is much to distract them from things of eternal significance, we are trusting God to overcome them by his Spirit and to enliven them to the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Perhaps most significantly, you helped us kick-start a new ministry that we have been praying for and planning since last year. Through the initial leafleting and follow up visitation at the Sky City housing project, we built up a presence on the site that we had been working toward but had not yet gotten. Our first meeting was attended by a Roman Catholic Eritrean woman and a young Iranian man who was attending a church-related meeting for the third time in his life. We have sought to maintain the momentum built up with your assistance and I have been joined by several church members in door-to-door work at the project, which has led to some in depth gospel conversations. Please continue to pray for the meetings we are holding in the community centre - we have three more that are scheduled: Atonement, Confession, and Eternity. Pray especially that the people we are reaching would know the atoning work of Christ personally, would confess their sins and confess Christ as Lord, and would have total assurance of eternal life with Christ.

Thank you for faithfully proclaiming the word of God to the people of the world, particularly those who have sovereignly been gathered in diverse Wood Green. People are getting to know who we are and what we are doing at Grace Baptist Church Wood Green, and most importantly, they are getting to know the good news about Jesus for all who believe in him. I can say with absolute confidence, "we will reap at the proper time if we don't give up" (Galatians 6:9).

We look forward to serving with you again someday, Lord willing.

With much gratitude

Yours in Christ

Ryan King and Grace Baptist Church (Wood Green) 

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This was printed in the worship bulletin of Grace Baptist Church (Wood Green) on 25 May 2014.