FIEC conference exhibition
Last week was the FIEC conference at Pweli/Perfeli/Pwllheli (depending on who was speaking at the time!) We Daveys went along and shared manning the UFM stand with Bernard and Linda Lewis (Papua New Guinea), Paul and Rachel Donovan (PNG, new appointees) and Andrew and Jenny Love (Brazil).
I ought to have taken a picture of the stand - we had two UFM panels, one France panel and one PNG panel, and pretty splendid everything looked, too. We had a brief moment of panic when Paul and I realised that to me "we have a power point" meant we would have an electric socket in the corner, and to him it meant we would have a laptop showing a PowerPoint presentation. (I blame Bill Gates myself...) Bernard saved the day by putting his laptop on the stand.
Judging by people's responses, there is a lot of interest in mission in France and in PNG. It was good to talk with the people from Belgian Evangelical mission, from European Missionary Fellowship and from the Christian Institute (all near neighbours) as well as lots of others.
We got to all the "early morning" sessions with Alistair Begg and to one seminar. I went to the first evening meeting, but after that decided to watch them at home with Pat and kids (and fell asleep every time. Typical!) Kids had a grand time in the children's meetings and using the site facilities.
It would be interesting to know whether the conversations and leaflets result in any contact with the office and any long-term relationship with the mission.
Paul and Rachel are, like us, in the throes of raising their support. They are going for a four-year term as house-parents to a missionary kids hostel in Papua New Guinea. They need to raise £24000 and they hope to go in June. Pray for us all!
I ought to have taken a picture of the stand - we had two UFM panels, one France panel and one PNG panel, and pretty splendid everything looked, too. We had a brief moment of panic when Paul and I realised that to me "we have a power point" meant we would have an electric socket in the corner, and to him it meant we would have a laptop showing a PowerPoint presentation. (I blame Bill Gates myself...) Bernard saved the day by putting his laptop on the stand.
Judging by people's responses, there is a lot of interest in mission in France and in PNG. It was good to talk with the people from Belgian Evangelical mission, from European Missionary Fellowship and from the Christian Institute (all near neighbours) as well as lots of others.
We got to all the "early morning" sessions with Alistair Begg and to one seminar. I went to the first evening meeting, but after that decided to watch them at home with Pat and kids (and fell asleep every time. Typical!) Kids had a grand time in the children's meetings and using the site facilities.
It would be interesting to know whether the conversations and leaflets result in any contact with the office and any long-term relationship with the mission.
Paul and Rachel are, like us, in the throes of raising their support. They are going for a four-year term as house-parents to a missionary kids hostel in Papua New Guinea. They need to raise £24000 and they hope to go in June. Pray for us all!
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