TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!Virtual Bangor Worldwide has certainly been to the ends of the earth these past 9 days as If you have missed the morning Bible teaching sessions with Gary on Living in the Light of His Coming we would encourage you to watch them in catchup. You'll really appreciate them! As always the convention kicked off with an actual prayer meeting in Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church where a good number of friends and supporters gathered together (social distancing of course) to commit the 9 day mission conference to the Lord in prayer. Then each week day morning Geoff Donaldson shared from God's Word with a consideration of God as our Rock. Initially we reflected on God the Rock of confidence (Psalm 62v1-2) then from Deuteronomy 32 we looked at God the Rock who is just (v3-4), faithful in provision (v13), unique (v31) and the bringer of life (v39). We would like to give special thanks to all of those who hosted each event, providing video content for the sessions which have made Worldwide 2020 very special indeed. To those also who have faithfully prayed for the convention, speakers, missionaries, teach team and for those who have given financially to the Lord's work which is reaching to the ends of the earth. As you are probably well aware Worldwide gives all donations back to the designated agencies and missionaries, each year this totals approx £145,000. While we realise that it will be difficult to reach this amount of money this year we trust in Him who is able to do more than we can ask or imagine. FRIENDS OF WORLDWIDESomething new for this year has been Friends of Worldwide, if you have missed this news please watch this video and we would be blessed if you can consider partnering with the convention. 20s30s @ WORLDWIDEThis year, we had three different elements for the 20s30s age-group - a special 20s30s event on Friday 21st August with Dave Wylie being our keynote speaker, four live Zoom conversations with cross-cultural workers serving in different parts of the world (Bangladesh, Lebanon, South Africa and Peru), and two seminars - one on mental wellbeing and mission, and one of developing a global mindset in our local discipleship. One of the young adults, Kim, emailed to say, "Thanks so much for organising and facilitating the conference online this year, I was so encouraged by the couple of talks I got to listen to and really loved being part of the prayer meetings." May the Lord continue to speak on into many hearts and lives as a CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN?Our Children’s Event - God's Great Big World went down a treat as our friends from CEF of Ireland hosted an action packed 40-minute online event. Full of Bible lessons, memory verses, games, activities, crafts and more. YOUTH @ WORLDWIDEWe had a short but powerful 40-minute Youth Event on Friday 28th August - with worship from Hamilton Road Baptist Youth, an interview with Emma and Jess from Bangor Elim, we went a 'virtual trip' to Macedonia with Wes, a worker who serves there, and Bryan Stewart And... it wouldn't be a Youth event without food (!) so we did a live draw on the night and the winner got a free pizza delivered to her door the next day! Please continue to pray for the development of relationships with Youth workers and young people in the coming weeks and months. EVIE CRAIGEvie shares with us about her ministry among TCK ( third culture kids) as a program development coordinator. If you would like to make contact with Evie regarding this kind of ministry you can contact her via email. AT THE END OF A VERY DIFFERENT CONVENTION WE HAVE MUCH TO GIVE THANKS FOR;EXCELLENT BIBLE
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