This week...

This coming week (9th-13th February) is the Newcastle Events Week – details can be found at http://www.free-newcastle.co.uk They have events running every lunchtime (twice!) and every evening. They also have a marquee set up on campus, where the events will be held (yes, I realise it’s bitterly cold, but they’ve promised heating – a definite thing to pray for!), and will be running a café all day everyday. Please particularly pray for Maurice McCracken who will be speaking – please pray that he would be faithful to the gospel and that God would give him patience, stamina and endurance for the week. Please pray for the CU members as they invite friends, course-mates, team-mates, house-mates and anyone else, that they would have courage and a thick skin to any mockery or rejection. Please pray for myself and the other CU guests that we wouldn’t get hypothermia (!), that we would enjoy the privilege of working with the CU and that we would be faithful to the gospel as we spend our time chatting with people and getting to know friends of CU members and strangers.

This year’s theme for the Newcastle events week is Free, which is based around the gospel distribution project that I’ve mentioned before. Newcastle CU has 6,000 copies of Mark’s gospel to give to students. This is quite a task, but they have shifted a significant number already. Please do continue to pray for the Free project both in Newcastle and across the country. I’m going to endeavour, I hope, to blog each day about what happens during events week, what can be prayed for and what is coming up.

God bless.

Dear Freedom