Champion Life Church

Hey Everybody,

It's great to be back with you. We trust that you are all pressing into the greater purposes of God for your lives both individually, and corparately with the local church you represent.

Things here in Scotland are going well. We recently just changed the name of our church from Bridgeton Life Church to Champion Life Church. The Lord gave this vision to us early this year. As we prayed it through He started to reveal to us that the people in the east end of Glasgow, which is one of the worst areas not only in Britian, but in all of Europe, have the potential for greatness in the Kingdom of God, and to be champions in their lives! We all know where we have come from in our former godless and worldly lifestylfe before we met Jesus, and where we are at now - championing the cause of Christ, because "greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world."

Here are our new church banners

Praise God!!!

Fellowship

Hello from Scotland!

God is so good. We were priviledged to have some friends come over for a dinner two weeks ago... We would like to share a bit about their story...

We have a faithful couple in our church who has been coming along for the past two years. They struggled with their marriage when they joined the church...Through a lot of prayer and counselling God has restored their marriage and they are now loving and respecting one another again. Now God has started to restore the rest of the family... They have been believing for their unsaved adult children to come to the Lord...We have joined them in prayer for these past years...

They had lost contact with one of their daughters and after 15 years of not talking God has brought them back together again this past summer.

Their two daughters who are both in their twenties have both now received Christ in their hearts and God has significantly answered some of our prayers! We are still believing God for these girls families and partners to become Christians too...

Here are some photos of the family at our house...We invited them all...17 of all together with their children and grandchildren... Also their unsaved partners came along...It was a good opportunity to build relationships with these lovely people. Enjoy the photos!
Love, Paul and Heini

Leanne and Nadia

Margaret and Maria

Both of the girls partners. Please pray for these young scotts!

Enjoying food and fellowship

Paul with two of our guests and Gloria (our daughter in the middle)

Youth/multipurpose room construction

Hey everyone!

Hope you are all well...
Here is a "wee" update on our building projects which seem to be never ending...One step at the time the building is getting renovated and more upto date...Last few weeks we have been working on our Youth/ multipurpose room. When we took the church over three years ago, we found out that this particular room had ceiling and a wall full of dry rot and therefore had to be specially treaded. So some of the wall and ceiling had to come down in order to start fixing the problem...Praise God, that is now done, new ceiling and wall is in place and this past week we have been finishing painting the room...Next week we will lay a carpet down and finish decorating the room... Here are few photos on "before and after".

Thank you for praying, God is good!
Love, the Euliano's

Here is a picture from the room when the ceiling had to be taken down and the dry rot was getting treated.

Here Paul is painting the walls.

Here we are...almost done... We are putting a nice blue carpet in next week...Praise God! This will be a great room for multipurpose use.

Sanctuary renovations

Hello again!

As many of you know our church building is over 100 years old and in a desperate need of decoration..Little by little we are tackling one area after another. The most current update is our sanctuary. The old pulpet had to go, so that we can get in a baptism tank... The work is not finished yet but the old pulpet is away...here are some pictures... Work in progress...

Blessings, Paul and Heini

Our daughter, Gloria (4) exploring in the construction area...

And our son, Josiah (5) helping daddy

Part of the old pulpet that is coming down

Piece by piece...

Pastor Ken who dismanteled the old pulpet talking with Pastor Paul.

Pastor Ken working hard

We had also added a new power projector to the ceiling and needed

to get all the way to the top with the scaffolding

Children's VBS

God is sooo good!

We have an other team with us for a week from New York. They arrived on Tuesday the 6th July and they will be with us until Wednesday 14th July.

They are helping us organise children's VBS for three nights. Last night was our first night. Around 50 children from the community showed up. During the day the team has been evangelising and doing face painting in the local park. God has opened up some great conversations with people in the community.

Please pray that all goes well tonight and tomorrow night. Children's ministry has been one of the most fruitful ministries in our church. Parents are starting to come along to the church as they see how their children are enjoying the programme and new friendships!

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

Getting ready for VBS - decorating the church

Tariq Shaw - The team leader

Children doing a craft

Everyone is having fun!

Charity Shop

Hi everyone!!

I know we have been telling you a little bit about the charity shop along the way but here is the final update with finally some photos..

We run the shop from beginning of March through 3rd July 2010.

God is so good and blessed us tremendously with the shop..Not just relationally but financially as well...

"As you sow you also reap" says the bible so we felt we had to do some sowing... Huge is the financial need we have as a church with all our construction projects etc...So it's better to trust all our burdens in His hands and do as the word says.

So we decided to "sow" some finances to a group called Fire Starters. They are even as we write in Kenya building a well in a small town and also reconstructing a roof to a church...

We were able to raise quite a bit of money for Fire Starters and also for the local community women by blessing them with a discounted rate to go to Bradford, England to a womens conference in Adundant Life Centre.

The last month of June we raised a bit over thousand pounds towards our own church projects...Praise God!

Here are pictures from the charity shop. The women who worked hard each day in the shop loved it so much that they are praying that God would give us a new shop closer to the church! Please pray that God would endeed open up a new door for a new charity shop in the east end of Glasgow. Love, Paul and Heini

Thank you

Hello again!

This past Saturday, June 19th, Paul graduated with receiving his credentials for Assemblies of God Great Britain. This was a special time for his promotion, and our whole family had an opportunity to go to Mattersey Hall Bible College in England. Paul has been pursuing this for several years now with some ongoing studying. He has worked hard to accomplish his task for the Lord.

Children are an awesome part of the Kingdom of God. Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them." On Sunday June 20th three children in our church were dedicated to the Lord and his purposes. We enjoy seeing Scottish people pray and give their children into the hands of God. All these little ones we had got to know through our childrens' programme on Tuesday nights and now the parents are also coming to the church. Praise the Lord!

Again we would like to say BIG THANK YOU for reading this blog, praying for us and supporting us!
We are so thankful to God for you! Blessings, Paul and Heini, Josiah and Gloria