Lord's Day September 24 2023

It was quite an unusual day in Childs Hill last Loed's Day. First I was not preaching in the morning. My assistant Eddie Webster preached on Haggai 1, the beginning of a new series. God stuff. Then in the afternoon the Korean church that meets in our building in the afternoons had arranged a concert featuring the flautist Michelle Choi. We were warmly invited and so a number of us went. I love the flute and this was music of the highest quality. She is a very sincere Christian and she took opportunity to speak of Robert Jermain Thomas and faith in Christ before playing (disarmed me rather as I'm ambivalent about Sunday afternoon concerts). We were sumptuously fed afterwards with good Korean food. Then in the evening I preached on 1 John 2:12-14. We just crept up to double figures in the evening and we were around 40 in the morning. Good day.

Lord's Day October 10 2021

Last Lord's Day was a bit different in that I preached three times rather than two. In addition to my usual morning and evening preaching in the Childs Hill church I also preached for the Korean church that meets in our building in the afternoon. It was very kind of them to ask me and I was grateful for the warm welcome. I preached on Psalm 28 and someone had kindly chosen three appropriate hymns including a Fanny Crosby one that I didn't know,

A wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord, a wonderful Saviour to me.

He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock, where rivers of pleasure I see.

The words were up in English as well as Korean. There must have been about 70 present.

In the morning for my own people I preached on the final section of Luke 8 (Jairus's daughter and the woman with the issue of blood) and in the evening on Psalm 29, the thunderstorm psalm. We reached double figures on the evening and were a decent number in the morning though there were several missing. Our one Korean couple were there though I didn't get chance to speak to them. There was a lady from Mongolia present, which is a first for us. She was there with a man who gave me his name. I thought it meant death but he told me it means mortality. There's name to live with. We also had a visitor who normally goes to St Martin's in the Fields. She said our service was different. I don't think she had realised it could be done the way we do it.