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Hotels

As well as placing Bibles in Hotels, we also put them in Guest Houses, Holiday Homes, Cruise Liners, Medical
waiting rooms, and Legal Offices.
Would you be willing to invest a little of your time to visit your local hotels?

As Iain said in his Editorial on page 3, “What time We look forward to hearing from you and being able
commitment is required? You may be able to give a little to share with you much more of the many blessings
of your time, you may be able to give more. Whatever of membership.
time you can give to the work is between you and the
Lord. Please be assured that every contribution of time is Remember……someone may ‘hear’ because you were
prepared to ‘Go’.
greatly valued and can/will be used of the Lord towards
another person coming to faith in Him.” Maybe you don’t To find out more please contact National Office
feel you have the time available at present to participate (details on page 2) or visit www.goodnewsuk.com
in any of the above activities, but would you be willing to
always be ready to share a copy of God’s Word with those
you meet on a day-to-day basis?

Thoughts From John recently joined the Reading Branch and writes:

“Romans 10: 17 says: “Faith comes from hearing the message,
and the message is heard through the Word of Christ.”
New Members We have GOOD NEWS to share and as Christ’s ambassadors
we need to take every opportunity to give to our friends
and neighbours copies of the Scriptures. On many occasions
Mary and her husband, Chris, joined the Surrey I have shared the Gospel message with a person but did not
South Branch earlier this year and we've been
encouraged by hearing their thoughts so far on have the opportunity to give them a Bible. I found myself
being part of this ministry. in such a situation and contacted the local GOOD NEWS
for Everyone! branch. I was able to obtain New Testaments
Mary shares that, "We had been Friends for a while and that I was able to give out. My wife and I have now become
often given out New Testaments through Street Pastors, members and been involved in distributing New Testaments
Amazon drivers, church street evangelism, the car wash at the Reading Festival and at the Reading University
etc. Lifelong contacts with various members have also Freshers’ Day for new students. We also distribute them
inspired us over the years. when we go on a cruise as we organise Christian
We had a friend in our old church who would stand Fellowship meetings on board. It has been wonderful
at the entrance to North London University giving out to see the response of people when given the Good News
Testaments in different languages to grateful students. of the Gospel.
Since being full members, the difference is that we feel We live in difficult days when we hear mainly bad news.
the responsibility of it because we're more involved with This is affecting people’s mental and emotional health, and
things like the finances etc. We organise the Christian there are high stress levels. What a privilege it is to point a
Aid collections in our village and have a stall at the very person to the message that says they can have peace, peace
popular village fete and it's a delight to have the Personal that the world cannot give but comes through the Lord".
Worker Testaments with us to give out there. There are
so many opportunities, and we have been to the South You can also read Helen’s testimony on page 20 about
of England Agricultural Show to give out special Badged becoming a branch member and how it helped her share
Testaments with the Farming Christian Link." God’s Word.

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