New Office

Hello Friends!

How are you? We pray and trust that all is well with you and your families. We would like to let you know that we are well in Scotland, and God is at work in our lives. We can't thank everybody enough for all of your prayers and financial support to our missionary work in the city of Glasgow.

The following are a few photos of the start of our new office conversion that we will aim to complete by April of this year. These two rooms, an old kitchen and a storage room will be changed into a new office...This will enable us to get things done more efficiently in church. Feel free to keep up with this project... Some photos of the original stage of the rooms...

                                                       Kitchen and Storage Room...

 

The old separating wall between the rooms has been taken down and 

old ceiling has been taken down...

                                         As you can see, we have our work cut out for us...      

 

 

 Here - new insulation for the ceiling!

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

We love Christmas...It is such a fun season of the year..hearing Christmas carols at the stores, hearing our saviours name being celebrated through out the country..It is wonderful!

This December we are doing many things to love our city! Please keep praying for these following events...

Saturday 8th December....Outreach at a local supermarket Tesco..We are doing an interactive Nativity Play with a group of young people called "Fire Starters"...( This is a great answer to prayer that Tesco will let us do that inside the store!) We will also be leafleting around the houses and handing out Christmas cards and candles to our neighbours...

Christmas Hampers...as many of you know that we have been fund raising money through our Champions Charity Shop...(It is going great!) This money is helping us to make up Christmas hampers to the elderly and people struggling this Christmas...We are making over 100 hampers...Before Christmas we will be delivering these to people in the community. Please keep praying that this practical acts of kindness will also bear much spiritual fruit and people will feel the love of Christ through our actions...

Friday, December 21st...Talent Show...We are having fun as a church and organising our annual talent show. Last year we had so much fun at this event with people showing of their talents that we decided to make it as an annual celebration...Again, we are believing that as people come along to have fun with us more new people will be added to our church family!

Christmas Eve, December 24th...We are doing a Candle Light Service and the children performing their Christmas Nativity Play...

Please pray that God will make us fruitful in these various outreaches that we are doing... Our heart is to be a blessing! Thank you for all your support!

 

Love, Paul, Heini, Josiah and Gloria

Kids Carnival

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are all doing well...Here are few updates on what has been happening in Champion Life Church.

On October 31st we organised a Community Outreach Event, Kids Carnival, providing an alternative to the "Halloween" celebrations...We had lots of fun, no scary costumes and 198 children from the community to come out (plus their parents..The house was full of people!!)! We had hired a Christian magician who was able to share the gospel in a fun and interesting way... all the children were totally focussed as he shared his faith while doing great tricks...

We are continuing working with the community and reaching out to the parents as they bring their children to the kids programme on every Tuesday night. Recently we have opened "a coffee room" for the parents who come and drop their children to "Kids Hour"...We offer donuts and coffee and a relaxed space to chill while the children are having fun in their activities! Few of the parents have already come along...It has been lovely to make new connections with our community! Please keep praying for this outreach!

Blessings, Paul and Heini

Champions Charity Shop

Hello Everyone!

Champion Charity Shop is now open!!!Thank you for your prayers. We have had three successful days shop open and believe many many more to come! Please keep praying that we will continue to get VERY good donations and many customers every day. Already today we had an opportunity to share the gospel with few different people and invite them to church...So we are believing many souls for the Kingdom!!

Nancy, one fo our volunteers pricing items before we opening our doors..

Jacqueline pricing items...

Adele having fun and sorting out clothes....

Theresa sorting out mens shirts...

Charity Shop

Hey Everyone!

We are in the middle of an exciting new project!

On the 15th September we will open our own Charity Shop called "Champions Charity Shop". This is very exciting as it opens up many new doors of opportunity...Charity Shops (second hand shops) are very popular in Scotland....

1. The shop will enable us to generate funds for the local projects we want to do in the church and the community.

2. It will build friendships as people volunteer and work together for a common cause.

3. It will give people who are unemployed a sense of purpose and opportunity to develop new skills ie. serving customers...Many of our volunteers are ex-drug users, or others who have had other life controlling issues in their lives.

4. We will open up a "coffee" corner at the back of the shop which will give opportunities for witnessing, praying and sharing about the love of God to the people/customers who come to the shop.

We would like to ask that you keep us in prayer...Please pray that the shop will generate more money we could have ever even dreamed or imagined and that we can indeed be a light in our local community.

Here is a photo of Ann and Bob, volunteering and painting some of the furnishings of the shop...

Germany Mission Trip

In the month of May Paul and Heini had the opportunity to go on a seven day missions trip to Rosenheim, Germany. They reported back how their heart for the nations have been expanded in many ways. They have a passion to travel the world, and bring the gospel to people wherever God sends them. They were with a team of seven people who were mainly evangelizing, and being released in taking meetings to release healing and the prophetic word of the Lord. The church in Rosenheim is called Destiny Church. In the picture Paul and Heini stand with Pastor Liam Smith a Scotsman called to Germany. The trip was a real success!

Champion Life Church Testimony

We have been thrilled to see so many new faces in our Sunday morning services and the church growing! Our Sunday school director, Margaret, has just recently written a testimony about Champion Life Church for the community...

"Champion Life Church is one of the best churches in Glasgow. Since I started going there 4 years ago I have seen so many miracles, signs and wonders which have changed my whole life and accelerated my faith 100 %. I never knew the Christian life could be so exciting and relevant for the problems people face today. I was a Christian when I started coming to CLC but I wasn't walking in total freedom from the effects of a very dysfunctional Glasgow upbringing. I didn't realise that this church was going to revolutionise my life by showing me how to have such an intimate relationship with the living God which would heal me in every area of my life. Sin no longer has a hold over me and I am being transformed every day into the person God always intended me to be. Through the teaching, powerful times of worship and the face to face encounters with God that we are privileged to experience week in and week out, I now believe anything is possible and there is nothing that God cannot do. I am living the blessed life and I want to see others healed, set free and living for Jesus Christ. My husband, son and daughter have all seen the power of God in so many different ways every day and God has a unique and exciting purpose for them too.

I currently have a great job of working with prisoners, serving my family and the church and living life to the full. I highly recommend coming to church to anyone who is searching for answers and wants to see God at work in their lives."

~Margaret Connelly.

Frank and Margaret Connelly