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Off to Swanage for SHOUT! Junior Camp made up of young people from Warwickshire.

The Camp will run from Saturday 9th August 2014 to Wednesday 13th August 2014
Please pray for Ivor & Angela Cooper (& the team) as they run the SHOUT! Junior Camp near Swanage in Dorset.
Gordon will be the speaker.

A good week @ ‘MegaMakers’ Holiday Club (Berrymead Evangelical Church Acton, London).
Although numbers are down compared to last year it is a privilege to be able to share the Good News of Jesus Christ in this tough multi-cultural area with the twenty-five children who came along.

At Mega Makers! children enter the inventor’s workshop and make some mega discoveries about God, hear about how God’s love is far wider and longer and higher and deeper than we can ever imagine and find out what it means to be a follower of Jesus

We had a great week at the LIFE EXPO at Lockerley Water Farm Campsite. Lockerley. Nr. Romsey. Hants.
Due to their size and location village schools often miss out on projects like the LIFE EXPO, but not this time!

Over 400 children from the surrounding villages were transported in to see this multi-media exhibition. The week was organised and financed by The Hampshire Christian Trust and it was run as an inter-Church project, with Christians from Churches in local area helping out as guides and staffing the event.

As expected the children and teachers who attended the Expo were thrilled with their visit.

As well as the 70min interactive lesson on Jesus, all the school children were given a ‘LIFE’ edition of John’s gospel.

Just to bring you up to date with the planned visit of ‘GSUS Live’ to Hampshire in Sept/Oct 2014.

‘GSUS Live’ is a resource that is available to secondary schools.
The aim of ‘GSUS Live’ is to enhance students’ understanding of some of the key teachings of Jesus.
A mobile classroom with a multimedia computer suite is the heart of the project.
It is designed to take classes of up to 32 Key Stage 3 students for a 45 minute session and provides a stimulating environment in which they can investigate Jesus’ teaching on Forgiveness, Fear and Rejection.

‘GSUS Live’ will be visiting eight schools and will reach thousands of secondary school pupils with something of the relevance and message of Jesus Christ.

Crofton School. Stubbington.
Tuesday September 2nd to Friday September 5th 2014.

Fareham School (we are still waiting for confirmation – please pray!)
Tuesday September 8th to Friday September 12th 2014.

Brookfield Community School. Southampton
Monday September 15th to Friday September 19th 2014.

Oasis Academy Lord’s Hill. Southampton
Monday September 22nd to Friday September 16th 2014.

Brune Park Community School, Gosport
Monday September 29th to Friday October 3rd 2014.

Bishop Luffa School. Chichester
Monday October 6th to Friday October 10th 2014.

Oasis Academy Mayfield. Southampton
Monday October 13th to Friday October 17th 2014.

Perins School. Alresford
Monday October 20th to Friday October 24th 2014.

Please pray for the planned site visit to each school on Tuesday 22nd July 2014 this is to make sure the trailer will be accessible and safe.

Please pray for (or attend) the Training Evening which will be on Monday 1st September (7pm to 9pm). This open to anyone who is planning to be involved setting up/dismantle the trailer (7pm to 8.00’ish) and those planning to present (8.00’sh to 9.00pm).

Please pray for this incredible resource as it is once again in our area.

Office catch up after 3 weeks of mission & holiday.

Please pray as we seek to make final preperations for the visit of The LIFE Expo at Lockerley Water Farm and the visit of GSUS LIVE in September/October.

The Curley’s on hols somewhere hot & sunny – please do not disturb (June 2nd to 16th)

Excellent week at ‘Mega Makers’ 5 day Holiday Club. The Community Church, Wellington Road, Hounslow.
The week finished with a Prize-Giving and BBQ – the sun shone, and we managed to squeeze so many people into the building!

A privilege to share the gospel with 50 children from a variety of cultural backgrounds (Indian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Polish and African to name a few) and from a variety of religious faiths.

six Bible teaching sessions with Westcliff Free Church (Southend-on-Sea, Essex) on their Church Weekend at Pilgrim Hall, East Sussex.

Great to have Penny and the kids with me! Yes, I braved the outdoor swimming pool!

So encouraging to chat with folks and know that the Bible teaching was a real help to them!

A real joy last weekend to join with Meadow Way Chapel (Norwich, Norfolk) on their Church Weekend retreat.

Great response to the five teaching sessions and great to speak to a Church who are hungry for the Word!

The Net: B-B-Q in the Woods!
They came, they chatted, they laughed and they ate plenty of food!
Excellent sausages plus Andy Payne’s famous Pheasant, Squirrel, Chicken, Pigeon and beef Kebabs!
Great night and thanks to everyone for making this such a good event.

The evening concluded with a Bible-based talk around the fire from Ivor Cooper. Please pray in the good news that was shared!
‘The Net’ is an inter-church event for men run by Counties Hampshire.