December 2009

Merry Christmas everyone!

December is one of our favourite times of the year...All the lights, Christmas decorations and Christmas carols...the food..the presents and the fact that everywhere you go, you get reminded of our Saviour's birthday! Jesus is indeed the reason for the season! Praise God!

We have been busy with various projects this past month...

November 30th - Jesus in Song Concert - Fundraising concert to cover some of the costs for the front entrance work... The night was a great success with four different bands coming to play and almost 200 people coming along. Thank you Matt Collins and team who put the concert together!

December 12th - Light of the World Campaign, Outreach to the community - As a church we reached out to our community and handed out over 300 gift wrapped candles to our church neighbours and people in the community. This outreach is always well received by the people giving out the gifts and those receiving. We believe we exists to glorify God and reach out to those around us!

December 13th - Sunday Morning Church with Fire Starters - A group of young people from all over Scotland come and sleep over in the church once a month. They take part in our outreaches and host their own worship encounter service both Friday and Saturday nights. This weekend God moved powerfully amongst them, healing various people from their sicknesses. One example is of a person who was healed of a scar from her ear to her neck. Glory to God!

December 17th - Christmas Dinner and Carol Service - We celebrated Christmas with our church family... The night was filled with good food, fellowship and a nativity musical prepared by the worship team. This was also a great time for the church to bring non-Christians, family and friends along.

December 20th - Ladies Night - We are getting ready to get together as women of the church to have a creative night tomorrow. Two of the ladies are florists in the church and they have prepared a table decorations work shop where all the ladies who want can come and have fellowship and prepare a center piece for their Christmas tables...It should be lots of fun!

December 23rd - We are going to the U.S.A. for two weeks in Christmas!!! We are looking forward seeing all our family and friends...

Thank you for supporting and praying for us! With your help you made this mission possible!

Please look at the video we have posted, some highlights from this past year...

Love, Paul, Heini, Josiah and Gloria

Champions Youth Conference 2009

Hello Everyone!

I had a dream...Everything starts with a dream... or with a thought...


Almost ten years ago Paul had a dream about a youth conference that would reach out to the Scottish young people right here in Scotland. Something that would be of excellence, something that would absolutely change their life for God!


This dream came to pass in Champion's National Youth Conference when five Scottish youth leaders caught the same vision. They came together with Paul and invited Pastor Eric Peoples from Manchester, CT as a guest speaker to launch the very first conference last year.

And now a year later, we had our second Champions Conference.

Over 300 young people came to the conference from all over Scotland. Paul and the team have worked hard preparing for this three day conference. It was truly a success! The first night 50 people raised their hand to reconfirm their commitment to the Lord and three raised their hand for salvation. We also had many youth come down to the altar with tears in their eyes surrendering their hearts to the Lord. God showed up!


Love and Blessings, Paul and Heini


Here are some photos.











This years Guest Speaker Paul Reid

Front Entrance

Dear family and friends,

"Rome was not build in a day" is the famous saying, which we have had to relate to a few times in the past year. As we look at the task of renovating our church, the building is over 100 years old and it has not been decorated since the 1960's. However, we are advancing one step at a time, and have gained momentum to see things change and become more up-to-date.

Here is an update how the building is being renovated...

This past week we laid a new floor in the pastor's office...

One of the big projects that we have been working on the last few weeks is the front entrance. Here is a picture before anything started.

Here the work starts. We pulled out the "old" front entrance box which was meant to keep wind and rain out. The reason for this removal was to have more room and natural light shining through. Next we took out the old ceiling to put up a stronger one. We also added new lights to make the room brighter.

A new front door is being installed in the next picture. We are praising God for the financial provision for this door. We had taken a step of faith and ordered it, believing Him for a miracle.

A few days later, after the order, we had received a message from the States that a children's ministry had sent 3,000 pounds to pay for this accessory for the front hall. This donation covered the full bill for the door. Praise God!

A new laminate floor is being installed.

After plastering all the walls, we had put a fresh touch of paint on.

We are so grateful for all who have partnered with us in this project!

Our children Josiah and Gloria are a huge part in our ministry in Scotland.

Hallelujah Party

Hello Friends!

The world celebrates Halloween, we celebrated Jesus Christ through Hallelujah Party on the 31st October. We had a great night with lots of kids coming from the community. We were able to share a simple message of the gospel and play fun games and have good food...and of course we had a great time! Sunday morning one of the mum's came to church and with tears in her eyes she gave her heart to the Lord. Praise God! Thank you for praying!

Here are some Photos...Love and Blessings, Paul and Heini

Registration

Feeding the donut game...

Simple gospel message

Time for worship



Heini and Tracy-Ann

Great job everyone - now cleaning time...

Building Work

Hello Everyone!

The journey in Bridgeton Life Church is continuing full speed.

We are in the middle of church construction right in the front entrance. The old dated look from the 1960's has to go...The walls have been cracking, and the whole first "expression" when you walked in the church was very dark...

First part was to pull down the existing ceiling and cover it with the plaster board..Next is plastering, then painting, and hopefully in few weeks time we can lay down a new floor...We are excited to see the church physically and spiritually changing; reaching higher and going stronger each week.

There is much to do but we are taking one step at the time, together as a church...As the saying goes, "Rome was not build over night..." We are learning to be patient with the work. Thank you for your faithful support to us, and please keep us in prayer as our goal is to have the front entrance decorated by the end of November when we will be hosting a special concert for the community.

Please pray for us also as we are preparing for our annual Hallelujah party on the 31st October 2009.

Here are some photos of the front entrance in the middle of walls getting plastered.

Blessings, Paul and Heini

Baptism Sunday

Celebration Sunday! God is so good and so faithful! Thank you for praying!

The 30th August we had a baptism service where three people were baptised,
Robert, Clayton and Christine! The day was filled with joy and excitement.

Robert is a single man who we had met just few weeks ago in one of our outreaches in Bridgeton Cross. He is hungry for God and taking steps to see his life changed. Please pray for Robert as he continues his walk of faith and believes freedom from his past addictions!

Clayton and Christine gave their lives to the Lord in May when God supernaturally healed Clayton's back. The Lord has been doing a work in their lives and in their children's lives. Please keep them in prayer as they pursue their destiny in God.

Here are few photos...Blessings, Paul and Heini



Clayton getting baptised



Christine getting baptised



Robert sharing his testimony with Pastor Paul

The Champions from left

Pastor Paul, Robert, Christine and Clayton

Church is Fun!

Can Church be fun?

We are teaching to the people of Bridgeton that Church indeed can be fun!

Relationship with the Lord needs to be real...

Church needs to be relevant to our lives and filled with joy! Let's not give up but press on. We are winners as long as we don't give up...No matter how many times we fall, we get up and keep going. Praise God for His amazing grace!

Please keep us in prayer as we will have a baptism service this coming Sunday the 30th August 2009.

The photos are from one of our Sunday morning services...

His joy is our strenght, Praise God!

Love, Paul, Heini, Josiah and Gloria

Kids Programme

Hello from Scotland!


In the beginning of August we were priviledged to have a team from New Jersey with us for few days. We had a great time reaching out to the children and families of Glasgow. Over 70 children came to our kids programme and most of them received Jesus into their hearts!


Praise God!

Please keep praying for all these seeds that were planted. We are continuing our weekly children's programme every Tuesday night. Please pray that the Lord would send more people into our paths who would have a heart to work with children... The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. These children have a special place in our hearts, many of them come from broken homes and many have suffered from abuse. We want to bring healing through the love of Christ into these little beautiful hearts.

Love, Paul and Heini

Here are few photos from our kids programme!



Doors are wide open for kids to come in!






Welcome!! We are ready to have fun!






Praise God we had a great turn out! Over 70 kids came along!





Time for a craft...

Connection 242

Hey everyone!

Since April 2009, once a month, we have got together as a church to fellowship over a meal, to worship, pray, take communion and hear God's Word. These nights have turned out to be a real success. Month after month new people come and join us for a meal and get to meet new friends...

Acts 2:42 says, "They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." That's where the name Connection 242 comes from...

We are truly a church that likes to fellowship with one another and build an atmosphere of church unity and devotion...

Enjoy the photos from our latest Connection 242 night on 30th July 2009.

Love, Paul and Heini



Matt and Nick doing worship

Enjoying the meal together

Lilian, Sandra and Theresa

Pastor Paul, Frank and Susane



Nancy

Ann & Bob

Amanda & Adele

Great times together...

Deborah & Heini