Thursday, 30 October 2014
School bookings
So far we have 3 days booked in local schools 2 in a school of 400 on the 19th and 20th Nov and 1 on the 21st in a larger school but we are just going in for a day and we will have 180 kids , I am still waiting to hear from the other school in Tramore but since it is half term I won't hear from them till next week, please pray they will be in touch very soon and pray for wisdom as regards contacting other schools and for my preparation too thanks charis
Taxes
I am in the middle of doing my taxes right now as I am self assessed for tax, I used to do my own taxes when I worked with the amazing journey but it has been a few years since I last did them so I am hoping I mange to do them without too much pain and that things have not changed too much since I last did them.
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
New Prayer letter
Hi
all, just a note to update you on my news and to ask for your continued
prayers. I hope you all had a lovely summer and that you had good weather, the
weather here in Tramore was beautiful. It’s hard to believe Christmas is already
just around the corner! Please find all my news enclosed. Thanks so much for your continued support and
prayers love Charis xx
Moved AGAIN
I
moved and then went straight into summer work after I moved so I’ve not yet had
a chance to unpack everything! It has been very stressful and unsettling to
have to move again, this is my 4th move in 2 years so I’m even unsure
if I should even unpack! Please pray I will feel settled soon and that I will
get the last things unpacked.
King’s
Kids
Kid’s club would
normally be starting back this month but I decided that I needed to take a
break from the club for a few months so that I can have the time I need to
focus on starting up schools work. I Then found out that 3 of my helpers
couldn’t help this year and so there would just be me and 1 other lady every
second week so the decision was taken out of my hands. I do hope that club will
start back again in Jan but this will depend on helpers.
The Summer
Last summer we did 1 summer club/camp in conjunction
with Beach Missions and this year we were able to do 3!
The 1st week we did a club in a local hall
which is near a large estate but despite giving out over 200 invites no kids
from the estate came! Thankfully we had
about 15 kids each day some whom we knew from our church or from other churches
and there were also some who came from one of the asylum centers here in
Tramore and several of them were muslims, Pray that God will continue to work
in their hearts.
The 2nd week was a football club which we
did in a local football pitch; we had skills and drills, then a half time talk
and then matches. This week was planned with little notice as I had no venue
for this week up until about 2 weeks before and so I was unsure how this was
going to work out but it went well and we had about 12 kids each day some of
whom live in the same estate as my colleagues Daniel and Inge, Pray that they
will have contact with these families into the future.
The 3rd week was in the estate where we do
the weekly kids club and so there was no problem getting kids to come along and
we had about 20 each day.
Overall we had a great 3 weeks, it was tiring but
good!
Baptism:
Aoife is one of the young people in church
and she was baptized in the sea here in Tramore in Sept. Praise God for her testimony and about 20 of
her friends and family that came to the service.
Tramore Bible church is now on Facebook, check out our page and follow us! You can listen to and watch aoife's testimony on the church facebook page.
Schools Work
I am starting
work in primary schools this month. There are 4 primary schools in Tramore and
over 1300 pupils! That’s a lot of kids that need to hear the good news about
Jesus! To start with I am borrowing the
Amazing Journey (AJ) equipment; this is an exciting one day Bible presentation
that I used to work with and it has been into the schools here in Tramore in
the past (but not in the last 7 years). I will offer this presentation to the
schools first and then I hope to follow up with Bible Explorer. Bible explorer is
for 1 hour a week for 5 weeks and the kids learn all the stories of the OT and over
70 hand signs so they can remember the sequence of events. I have not used
Bible Explorer before but I did some training in this last year. Please pray
for me as I start up this work
Prayer and
Praise Points:
Praise that the 3 summer camps went
well and for all the kids that came
Praise for the young people in church who got
involved with the camps etc over the summer
Praise that about 20 of Aoife’s friends and family came to her
baptism in Sept
Praise for the children’s ministry training
that BCM(Bible centered ministries)ran for us ; 15 came in total and 10 were
from the Tramore church
Please pray for
the schools work I will start in Oct/Nov starting with the Amazing journey and following up with Bible
Explorer in the new year; Pray for schools to take up our offer to come in, for
helpers, for funds and for God’s word to speak to pupils and teachers
Pray for me as I prepare and deliver lessons in schools
Pray for wisdom
as regards kids club
Pray for me to
settle into my new home quickly
Monday, 13 October 2014
Schools
on and off again
Hi all well you will be glad to know I have internet in my house!!! I actually had it for one or 2 days and believe it or not my line broke and I lost it again but it is back again now (hopefully for good but who knows!!) anyway I just wanted to let you know I am alive and well.thanks for your continued support and prayers charis
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