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                                                            Leicestershire North Branch held their
                                                            yearly outreach in April. Much planning and
                                                            prayer had gone into it – including prayer
                                                            for dry weather!

                                                            Despite a full car park at Coalville Community
                                                            Hospital the Lord provided just the one space
            to join their Bible study, sharing and studying   we needed. The matron Lesley was happy
            verses that challenged to stay humble, to       to take as much in the way of Scriptures and
            guard against pride, and to keep hearts         magazines as we could offer them! The 15
            rightly focused on Him.                         participants distributed over 250 Scriptures
                                                            in Coalville, Castle Donington and Ashby
                                                            together with around 90 leaflets giving access
                                                            to Bibles using a QR code.















            Testaments were presented to each of
            the squads of players and their coaches
            at Back Football Club, along with the two
            development teams of primary school age,
            through the youth teams of U14s, U16s and
            U18s, right up to the senior team, report
            Western Isles Branch. The presentations to
            each of the younger teams were carried out at
            training sessions, but that to the senior team   Members from Wilts North West Branch
            was held on the evening of their opening        recently re-visited Green Lane Hospital in
            home game.                                      Devizes, which is a mental health unit. Danny
                                                            Paine Winnett is the Chaplain to inpatients
            The Western Isles Branch are grateful to the    there and this time we were able to give
            Club Chaplain, Rev Colin Macleod, and the       him 45 Hospital Testaments and 15 Personal
            Club Chairman and Committee for their roles     Worker Testaments as well as samples of
            in seeing this distribution come to fruition.   Explore and the A5 HOPE magazine.






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