Our Journeys End...

Well,

We have returned from Kuala Lumpur where we had a relaxing 6 days before coming back to India for the last 2 days of our trip. We can’t quite believe that we’ve come to this point. It has been quite a journey. We have seen God work in truly miraculous and incredibly humbling ways. As always with trips like these, you come to be a blessing but end up being blessed far more.

We have had so many highlights along the way, it would take too long to list them all, but we know that God has brought friends into our lives that have made a profound and deep impression on us for His Kingdom. As we return home we are excited about seeing everyone we have missed yet we (and this is the honest truth) are very aware that everyday life will take over when we go home.

We feel the deep urge to fight against this with every ounce of strength that is within us. We have experienced a different way of living, of doing life. We want to encourage, build up, stimulate and challenge people into the plans that God has for them. On the same note we are very conscious that we could ‘overkill’ this a bit too. Please pray for us in that way, the last thing we want to do is be too salty and ruin relationships.

One of our main reasons for coming was to gain a better understanding of the work here in order for us to promote it better at home. With that in mind the proposed vision for ACTS Ministries (www.actsministries.co.uk) for the next year is to gain 160 new monthly sponsors at £10 per month to support four schools in India and 18 sponsors for missionaries (also £10 per month) who work tirelessly in North India. Again we would appreciate your prayers for this, that doors would open into new churches/organisations for speaking engagements etc.

We hope that you all have been encouraged as you have read what God has done through us, without Him we are two travellers, who gave up work to go off around the world for three months. Yet with Him at the centre we have felt an eternal purpose in this all, we know that God has revealed more of himself to us in these three months than we would see at home within the nest 3 years. We just hope we can continue in this when we come home.

Another prayer point we hope you will consider is a job for Stephen. As you know we came here homeless and unemployed and God has provided for us in a HUGE way so far, so we are trusting that He will meet the needs that we have.

Thank you to everyone for your constant encouragement and support during our time here. We have felt the benefit of it immensely. We know that without your prayer support it may not have been so smooth. So from the bottom of our hearts we want you to know that we deeply appreciate you being a part of the journey with us. And to everyone who helped us financially for this trip we cannot express our gratitude. Your generosity was overwhelming and you confirmed to us that God is a God who provides. You partnered with us for the work of the kingdom and God has seen your hand in giving.

This is meant with the strongest conviction:
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine, according to His power at work within us, to HIM be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever AMEN. Ephesians 3:20.

Go on, do something for His glory, He believes in you….and I promise you will not regret it.

Stephen and Bronagh

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