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Magnifique soirée – a full house, we managed to squeeze everyone in and I found my new calling in life a TV monitor stand!
Thanks to Antoine Thenin who shared about his life and faith.
Thanks to Ashley & his team @ Stubbington Fish & Chips for some great food and thanks to Mike & Alison for letting us invade their home!

NEXT EVENT: Face to Face with Steve Buckeridge.
Date: Tuesday January 13th 2026
Venue: Locks Heath Working Men’s Club Duncan Road, Park Gate, SO31 (Parking opposite at Duncan Road Church)
Time: 8.00pm to 10.00pm

Eighty million passengers per year. Almost every language in the world. A wide variety of cuisine and people. Eight square miles that some people find stressful, others exciting and we enjoy! That would be an unusual country profile! Instead, it is the backdrop to Steve & his wife Judi’s Chaplin ministry at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Come and meet Steve as he talks about life at Heathrow Airport and shares about his Christian faith.

(The Net’ is a MEN’S event run by Counties Hants)

TONIGHT – The Net (Men’s Event) – Face to Face with Antoine Thenin.

Antoine was born and raised in France but came as an international student to Bournemouth in 2010. Since then, Antoine has been involved in international student ministry both locally and abroad. Antoine will share about his life, his travels and his faith.
Antoine is married to Nicky and they have 3 children.

The ‘Fish & Chips’ (or whatever else you prefer are from the local chippy.
Please email/txt me your order ASAP. (Pay for whatever food you order – all drinks free)

Venue: 5 Gardener Road Titchfield. PO14 4EF

A service for the residents at Hawthorne Court. Southampton.

Todays service will be:

Carol: Once In Royal David’s City
Prayer
Collective Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer (traditional)
Short talk #1: Gordon Curley
Poems by Penny
Solo by Penny: Away in a Manger
Short talk #2: Gordon Curley
Carol: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Closing Prayer

Hawthorne Court specialises in dementia care.

What: with Penny for an Assembly
Where: Park Gate Primary School. Southampton.
Time: 2.30pm
Theme: Christmas Celebrations
Bible Story: Nativity

Morning:
Venue: Velmore Church. Chandler’s Ford. SO53 3GY.
Subject: ‘The Missing Piece’
Bible Reading: Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 & Luke chapter 2 verses 8-14

Evening:
Venue: Cannon Court Evangelical Church. Fetcham. KT22 9LE
Subject: ‘The Promise of Peace’ – sermon by Gordon Curley
Bible Passage: – Hebrews chapter 13 verses 20-21

Download your copy of the Counties IGNITE Winter 2025.

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CONTENTS
Pages 6-7: We celebrate the life of Counties evangelist, Will Andrews.
Pages 8-9: GSUS Live lessons, hosted in a West Wales Secondary school, led to eleven pupils approaching Counties evangelist, Janet Hawking, for prayer during their break time.
Pages As One2Lead expands, students share how the course has furthered their passion for Jesus.
Pages 14-17: The Connect Evangelist Training Programme (CETP) is currently in progress.
Nearly 70 participants are now enrolled. We speak with two participants about their experiences so far.
Pages 18-21: Counties Senior evangelist Victor Jack shares the story of Sizewell Hall Christian Centre and its 50-year celebration.
Pages 22-25: A young Muslim man shares how he came to faith through Chatnow.org – a dedicated platform for answering questions about Christianity, led by Counties evangelist Matt Rich.
Pages 26-29: Phil Davies, Counties evangelist and the Pastor of Dunvant Christian Fellowship in Swansea, shares areas that have contributed to their growth.
Pages 30-33: John McGinley, the keynote speaker at Counties’ conference, shares: Re-founding the church on Jesus Christ.
Page 34: Just a Minute with the new Project 125 coordinator, Beverley Bedford.

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.
Within two minutes of arriving, I witnessed one Christian preacher being pushed by an angry Muslim, then sixty seconds later the angry Muslim was punching another Muslim man, then on the hour he got the hat trick by punching yet another Muslim! By the time the police got out of their minibus (on punch #3), he had long gone!
Plenty of people around but not a lot of useful conversations, the best being my colleague Mark spent a long time chatting to a Moslem doctor from Saudi Arabia and I had a long chat with Constantine a Moldovan Seventh-day Adventist (see photo), a very genuine guy but his theology was all over the place. Trusting that things shared with these two men will bear fruit!

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

Time for some stultiloquence in the park!

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Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe the tradition is connected to the right of the condemned to a last speech before being hung at the Tyburn gallows, a practice that stopped at the end of the 18th century. Every Sunday people from all sorts of convictions come to Hyde Park in the afternoon to spread their message or to have fun.

A great evening at Paulsgrove Baptist Church. Portsmouth, made better by the fact I didn’t have to organise it! Chinese food, ice cream for afters and a short quiz followed by a short talk from me.
Pray for those who took books and booklets from the literature table. Thanks to Rob Milikin and his team.

It was also good to catch up with some friends from the past, those we know from our long association with the Church and what were the young people who came along to our youth events and Camps, now in their mid-twenties and growing in their faith.

Looking forward to some good Chinese food and the opportunity to share the gospel at a Men’s Event organised by Paulsgrove Baptist Church. Portsmouth.