UK VI news......

Hi all,

We would value your prayers for all of us working for OM within the UK as in the coming months we will be facing the loss of friends and colleagues owing to the withdrawal of our overseas sponsorship licence. Please pray that in the midst of such uncertainty we will all experience God's grace, provision, stability and know His perfect will. Amen.

some of Kosova highlights.....

Chris writes: praise God for great times! We had a great time in Kosova...so many meetings and coffees and opportunities to encourage and to be encouraged...we were so blessed just by being there...sadly our time was so short and we did not get to do or see all the people and places that we wanted to...maybe with age and maturity I am more able to accept that now....next time!

But we still were able to see lots of people who were so happy to see us, join with a kids club with CEF, go to a Christian Kosovan wedding, visit and be encouraged with the new cafe opened by our church...and using some of our furniture from our cafe, visit the capital Pristina and some of The Ideas Partnership Projects, working mainly in Roma, Ashkali And Egyptian communities, seeing how they are growing including a new kindergarten, visit and be encouraged to see the drug rehab, Streha, near Gjilan in the south and how it has grown and is continuing to transform lives....and of course visit a Chelsea supporters cafe!......amongst other things!!!

We took so many pictures and hopefully you saw some of them on facebook but here are a few more:

Phew!!!......thanks so much for your support and prayers for us and for our time in Kosova.....    xx

life continues.....number 6 is lining up on the runway!!

Chris writes: so one group of ELCO students have left us and another one is already here or on their way. The new programme starts this weekend. It is such a joy to see the students leaving ELCO and going off to serve God in Birmingham, UK their home, or around the globe with OM. This will now be my 6th ELCO group and it is great to be part of this programme and to be able to train and equip, serving God in this way. Please do pray for the students both new and old.


For this programme we will not be around that much. Once the programme gets underway after one week we will be off to Kosova for two weeks...we are looking forward to this and the divine appointments we are praying for there. As the students arrive already things are starting to look differently for me with other new possibilities on the horizon.


Appreciate your prayers at this time

Thank God because He is Good!!

Chris writes....has been a busier than ever season....Christmas came and went and was fantastic to be at my parents down in Worthing for a week or so before...back here straight after for our New Years Outreach...and mission week for our students...then the end of one programme......evaluations and preparation for the new one......and we are now 4 weeks into the new programme....new and extra responsibilities for me!! Really feels like the train has begun again and now just need to keep it moving.......

We have had many blessings just lately.....words of friendship, money, visitors, new friendships, invites for meals, gifts of food..God always seems to know just what we need and when we need it...Praise God that is a testimony we all share!!

Have been struggling a bit lately with some of my old demons and habits...do I or don't I.....why not give in....why do I have to keep struggling.....must admit I came very close.....Psalm 118 from the Message summed it up for me.....felt like I was: '...right on the cliff edge and ready to fall, when God grabbed and held me....and now He's my salvation' (verses 13 & 14) and a few verses on: 'I didn't die. I lived! and now I am telling the world what God did.....' (17)

and finally verses 28 & 29: 'You're my God and I thank You. Oh my God I lift high Your praise. Thank God - He's so good. His love never quits!'

How are you doing??