Thought for the Month (November 2025)

November 7, 2025

Anguish:  extreme pain, distress, or anxiety Question? Do you know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour and Lord? If the answer is a sure Yes, may I ask, do you feel any anguish at all about someone dear to you who has turned away from God to go their own way, and shows no sign [...]

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Fellowship News (Nov 2025)

November 7, 2025

In November we remember those who gave their lives during the two World Wars and other conflicts right up to the present day.

We remember to pray for God to continue to be merciful to our country and to pray for the lost around us – lost in the delusions of the devil, and the deceits [...]

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Mission Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow – GBM Annual Day 2025

November 7, 2025

As always the GBM Annual Day 2025 (25/10) was a very enjoyable, thought provoking and informative day.
Fiona, Calix, Andrew and I attended the Annual General Meeting in the morning, during which Daryl Jones reflected on his 12 years as Mission Director. During the next 12 months Daryl will be retiring, but will stay on to [...]

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Fellowship News (Oct 2025)

October 13, 2025

Gift Day Update.
Message from Karl…. Following our gift day back in June, I can now update you on the final figures.  The total was £31,250 including the claimed gift aid. This is over a quarter of the out-standing amount of £110K and goes a substantial way in paying off the loan.
May I take this opportunity [...]

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Give thanks for the Harvest (October 2025 Thought for the Month)

October 13, 2025

We have just celebrated harvest time at our recent Harvest festival and lunch and brought our gifts to be distributed to the Brighton and Hove city Mission. It was a weekend of much blessing and thankfulness as we considered God’s faithful-ness in caring for his people over many years since the time of the Exodus, [...]

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Thought for the Month (Sept 2025) “A call to prayer”

September 14, 2025

“They were continually devoting them-selves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” (Acts 2:42, NASB)
You hear me referencing this verse many times. I cannot get past its simplicity and yet profundity. It records what the first converts after the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, baptised into [...]

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Fellowhip News (Sept 2025)

September 14, 2025

A busy September as various meetings/activities restart, but do please note Calix’s exhortation that we make every effort to join together for prayer on the 13th.
These all with one accord were continually devoting themselves to prayer
Acts 1:14a (LSB)
Harvest Sunday 28th – we look forward to gathering tins, packages etc. of food for our Harvest display [...]

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Mission Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

September 14, 2025

Have you ever thought “I would like to know more about the GBM missionaries that we pray for”?
Why not come along to the Grace Baptist Mission Annual Day on Saturday 25th October, at the Friends House, Euston, London.
When Jesus gave his Church the Great Commission, he promised to be with us ‘always, to [...]

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Running the Race & on Tour

August 8, 2025

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining with a number of friends for a trip to northern France to see several of the early stages of the Tour de France. Every evening we pored over the tour route to select the best place to view the race and cycled out to [...]

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Thought for the month – For this I have Jesus (August 2025)

August 8, 2025

It was the end of a Ladies’ Breakfast in the Chapel, February 2012. They had been singing that song by Graham Kendrick:

For the joys and for the sorrows
The best and worst of times
For this moment, for tomorrow
For all that lies behind
Fears that crowd around me
For the failure of my plans [...]

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