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WE CAN “A big thank you to GOOD NEWS for Everyone! for the

shipment of Bibles that we have received for George
HELP THOSE Eliot Hospital. Having a renewed supply of the Bible here
at the hospital ensures that our Christian patients, staff
and family members have access to the Scriptures and
WHO CROSS that we can make the Bible available to any person who
enquires or wishes to have a copy.
It is because of the generosity of GOOD NEWS for
OUR PATH Everyone! and their generous supporters that we can

offer and provide copies of the Bible to those who cross
our path in the work of ministry that we do here, be it a
baby dedication or prayers of commendation at a life's
Tom Foxon of the Nuneaton & Hinckley end. We plan to dedicate these Bibles to the work of God
Branch was delighted to receive a note from in this place and offer copies of the Bible to staff during
the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton. Tom our Christmas Advent events (over a four-week period)
explains that, since Covid, the branch had and as a special gift for those patients and staff who
been trying to get back into the hospital come to visit us over the holiday season.
but been put off. However, Tom had a Thank you so much for the work you do in enabling
meeting with the Chaplaincy which resulted us to distribute, as we are able, the Word of God in this
in a substantial order for Bibles, Hospital place.”
Testaments and Medical Testaments, as well Rev Janelle Kingham, Lead Chaplain George Eliot Hospital
as HOPE and Explore magazines. This is what NHS Trust.
the note said: To God be the glory for this wonderful result.

WE PRAYED EVEN HARDER!

A great encouragement to us in the Cardiff Branch (and through it indirectly to the Vale of Glamorgan Branch) has
been the re-opening of the Cardiff and Vale Health Board to receiving copies of the Hospital Testament.

We decided to write to the relatively new Chief Executive of the Board welcoming her to her new position, inviting
her to receive a Presentation Bible and to restart discussions about possibly re-entering the various hospitals in the
area with New Testaments by the bedsides which had previously been removed during the Covid pandemic. Initially,
after about a four or five week delay in a response, thinking we would not hear back (which caused us to pray even
harder!), we received a very effusive letter from Suzanne Rankin, thanking us most sincerely for the partnership we
had developed with them over the past decades and readily agreeing to set apart a slot for us during which she
would be pleased to receive a Bible.
As a result of our meeting, we received her agreement that we could work alongside the various Chaplains in the
Cardiff and Vale Hospitals (Heath Hospital, St David’s, Llandough, Barry Memorial, Velindre and all the smaller units
across the Board area) with a view to making available God’s Word by the bedsides. This is a very sizeable task and,
along with the Glamorgan Vale Branch, we are well advanced now in planning their reinstatement. Please pray that as
a result, many patients and staff, might again be challenged and comforted by God’s Word.
Alan Lansdown, Cardiff Branch

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