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Andrew Lucas

On Monday afternoon I drove up from London with my father-in-law and Dinu Moga from Oradea, Romania to the conference centre. We began at five with an opening sermon from Andrew Lucas pastor in Omagh, Ulster. He took us to various places in the story of Paul where Paul experienced discouragement, weakness and loneliness. He sought to show that each time it was in the Lord that Paul found relief and we must do the same. After our evening meal we had a superb message from Stuart Olyott on setting out in the ministry. as he said it is simple being a minister though not easy. he urged us to know your God, to know yourself, to knowyour flock and to know yoour job (qhich is to be an example, to pray, to preach the gospel, to declare the whole coounsel of God and to shepherd every sheep (including the lambs). SUperb stuff.

Banner Conference 2025

After not being at the conference last year I am here again in Yarnfield Park for the Banner of Truth Ministers Conference. Nice to have family and friends here. Great joy to have Iain Murray introduce one of the sessions. Reports to follow.

Lord's Day April 6 2025

Over twenty of us sat down at the communion table on the Lord's Day, the first in April. This included the two newly baptised men who I mentioned last week. I then preached on Ephesians 4:13-16 (really enjoying Ephesians by the way). We had some Iranians around for lunch, which was nice. Although the morning congregation was quite large the evening one was small. I was glad I'd picked out an encouraging verse from the Old Testament to stir us up.

Midweek Meeting April 02 2025

A good time of praye rand Bible study last week as we looked at the classic verse.

Day Off Week 14 2025

It's a week ago now but I did have a nice day off on April 1 not caught out by any pranks. I've now reached page 745 of David Copperfield so the end is in sight. Also had a nice walk and a coffee and watched Univeristy Challenge from the day before which I had missed because of a meeting with the architect. We also watched the last of the interesting drama based on the story of Ruth Ellis. Also a bit of research for apaper I have to give next month.

Lord's Day March 30 2025

Many events seemed to combine last Sunday. It was the end of Ramadan and the first Sunday of the new year for Iranians. It was Mothers Day in the UK and the clocks Sprang forward an hour to British Summer Time. Perhaps for the latter reason and may be some others it was not the best Sunday to have a baptism bit we did and followed it with a meal. We baptised two young Kurdish Iranian men. One was so late due to travel problems that we almost postponed it. We got there, however. I reached on Matthew 13:44. About twenty of us stayed for lunch and that was a very nice time. In the evening Eddie preached well to s small gathering, a second look at Colossians 3.

Midweek Meeting March 26 2025

We were the usual few at the Wednesday meeting as we carried on through Romans 8 and spent tme in prayer.