Well Halloween has passed by and Christmas is coming! Our newsletter this month contains our prayer update as well as a look at a couple of visiting missionaries in 2012.

Nelun Fernando

Please continue to pray for Ajith and Nelun. In his latest letter Ajith writes….

“ I am happy to say that except for one bad day, Nelun has not had the feared severe reactions to her chemotherapy. “

Ajith is deeply grateful for all the prayers being offered on their  behalf and continues … 

“One of the amazing blessings … was having people I do not know coming up to me and saying that they are praying for us. I suppose the joy that Nelun and I share at this time is a direct result of those prayers “ .

Bio - John Woodside

Born in 1946, John is originally from Larne.

After studying  biology and agricultural science at QUB he spent 10 years lecturing and doing research into pollution from farm wastes. He played rugby on the wing for Ballymena for 10 seasons and experienced a late call into fulltime Christian ministry in his mid 30s.

Apart from 18 months  in Ballywillan in Portrush. most of his ministry has spent been in two Presbyterian congregations in the Republic of Ireland; 18 years in Kilkenny and the last 8 years in Drogheda.

John is married to Sandra , a French teacher and  former IFES staffworker in Lebanon and Ireland. They have 3 sons,  Andrew (28), Peter (22) and Johnny (20).

John's present congregation has members from up to 15 different nations and they have mission links with Kenya, Lithuania and Czech Republic. He is on the Board of IFES Ireland.

Bio - Phil Hills

Phil Hills was born in Belfast, brought up in Dublin and has spent most of his life in England and Wales. He worked as a local government officer before going to Bible College and for the past 25 years he has been an Elim Minister leading churches in Coventry, Birmingham, Swansea and Dundonald.

In 1993 Phil got involved with the work of Teen Challenge and since 1995 has served as the Chairman of the Board. Teen Challenge has around 500 outreach workers seeking to reach people with life controlling problems on the streets of the UK.

To support the outreach work they have numerous residential centres for drug users and alcoholics who want to live free.

Phil is married to Lynn and has two children Jess and Josh.

Prayer Requests

At Worldwide we value your prayers for the different areas of our work. This months update is below!

• Give thanks that we  have all our speakers for 2012 finalised and our programming can now be completed. Pray for wisdom for this.
   
• Pray particularly for the exciting plans which are emerging for Bank Holiday Monday when we will have a focus on Africa and celebrate 125 years of Mission Africa ( Qua Iboe ). We are looking at extended seminars in the afternoon.
   
• Pray about some new initiatives which the committee is considering including links with retired missionaries and with local church mission secretaries.