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What I did on Sunday

From time to time, I have the privilege of spending time with a church community who are commissioning people to go off around the world to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Last Sunday, was just such an occasion. I drove over to Cambridge to be with Bar Hill Church as they prayed for their members John and Sheena Grummit who are heading off to work in Papua New Guinea.

The Grummits write:

This morning we had our commissioning service at Bar Hill Church, one of three churches that supports us. Eddie Arthur (right), director of Wycliffe UK came to speak and pray us off with Ruth Adams (left), our minister. It was great to have him there and hear a very encouraging message about building up the church from Ephesians.

So, now we’ve been commissioned we should be ready to go… but a look at our bedroom reveals that there’s still about 17 hours’ of packing to go. And, surprise, surprise, that’s exactly what we’ve got left in Bar Hill!

John and Sheena are good communicators and their blog should prove to be very interesting as they head off to PNG.

I’m glad that they found the message from Ephesians encouraging. From my point of view it was a little frustrating. Of late, I’ve taken to preaching without notes, but using the PowerPoint slides to guide me. However, there was a computer glitch and it was impossible to show my slides – so I effectively had to preach without notes. I notice that whenever I do this, I tend to get wordy and predictably my carefully prepared 10-15 minute sermon lasted for almost 20 mins. You can hear the whole service on the Bar Hill website. Or if you would like to listen to my sermon (I’ve increased the volume a little as the recording was very faint) you can click on the button below.