Donald Martin, chairman of the Western Isles branch has asked for prayer for Ann Smith who undergoing cancer treatment at present. Please pray for health and strength for her and for her family who are supporting her. May the Lord be gracious to them and give them peace.
Jackie Simpson
L:adies Pastoral Support
Please PRAY for the “Let’s spend some time together” LSSTT Events planned for Region 9
The Chester Event will be rescheduled, please pray for a new convenient date.
Saturday March 23rd Ammanford ABC Church 90 Wind Street SA18 3DU
It is anticipated, as we gather for fellowship, prayer and development that we will share together, those things that excite us about the Gideon Ministry.
CYNTHIA ELLIS
Update
Thank you for all the prayer support
Cynthia has completed two months of The Clinical Chemotherapy Trial and it has not made a significant difference to overcome the Leukaemia, she is about to start a different course of treatment and attends for regular Blood and Platelet sessions.
Please do pray specifically for a more positive response
“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him" Lamentations 3 v 25
Please pray for the Leadership and Members of the Full Armour Motorcycle Ministry in Scotland as they approach their AGM.
This is the time they decide on their mission works for the next season and put plans in place to spread the word of God in the Motor Cycling community.
Pray for their succesful works in the spread of the Gospel in the area and that their continued partnership with the Gideons bears more fruit
John Carden (27026)
We just got this prayer request from Alex Harvey, a guy that had been coming around the bike hub for a while.
He in turn got this message from his daughter and they have asked for it to be passed on. They had a wee girl a couple of weeks ago following an emergency section. She has fluid on the brain and has had surgery already.
They stay in Swansea. The fact Alex has asked us for this is amazing. The Lord is working hard on him just now.
Please see below. And thanks in advance
John Carden
Hi Dad
Grace has another MRI on her brain tomorrow (today) at 11.15am please can you keep her in prayer...we need the flluid to drain and the blood clots to disappear...God has got this!! We're so blessed to have Grace after years of praying for her so we know miracles do happen so we're praying for healing for our beautiful strong little girl.
If you know of any prayer groups please could you ask them to pray for her? We're hoping if all's ok with MRI and bloods we'll be able to take her home this weekend. Also her platelet levels are high so could you pray that they come back to a normal level? Just so desperate for Grace to come out of this unscathed...i truly believe its possible.
Our dog is having an opperation tomorrow morning also so please can you pray for Belle too.
Thank you so much
Lots of love from us to you xxx
Please pray for Joyce Urwin from Nuneaton & Hinckley Branch who has just been diagnosed with a tumour on her kidney. A further update will be posted when test results are available.
In the meantime please ask the Lord to surround Joyce, Mike and the family with His peace.
Dear Gideons & Friends
We are back!
Angela and Chris Axelby of Doncaster GideonsUK completed a 1 week mission with ShareWordGlobal [a Gideons Canada organisation], returning safely home just over a week ago. Thank you for your prayers. The mission was a complete success, undergirded by your prayers that were answered by our Lord. We distributed 2000 copies of God's word in New Testaments or John's gospel. These were in the Russian or Romanian language.
Thank you again for praying for us and the mission.
Please now pray for those who have received at least John's gospel, that they will be saved !
Chris Axelby [Doncaster GideonsUK Chairman and Region 3 Director] & Angela Axelby
Our esteemed member and friend Oliver Priestley has passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home in Killyleagh Co Down after a lingering illness. Please remember his wife Helen and family at this time. Funeral from his late home on Tuesday 15th January at 1.30pm to Second Killyleagh Presbyterian Church for Funeral Service at 2.00pm. Interment afterwards in First Killyleagh Presbyterian Churchyard. Family flowers only please. Donations may be made in lieu if desired to Gideons International UK c/o Charles Rourke and Sons, Funeral Directors, 51 Church Street, Downpatrick, BT30 6EH.
Please pray for:
From
Pamela Rushton
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Born Christmas Day 1930
Died 25th January 2020
Served with the Gideons from 1970 – 2020
Noel’s Christian life began when he was a postgraduate in Edinburgh. He attended Charlotte Street Baptist Church and it was there that he realised he needed a saviour and entrusted his life to the Lord (Micah 7 v 18). This was his ‘best ever’ decision. For him to know he received forgiveness and then on he had a future and hope, also purpose in life (Jeremiah 29:11).
One of his purposes in life was taking the Word of God to the world through his service with the Gideons. His half a century of ministry began while he was working in Brazil. In his spare time, he joined the Gideons and since 1970, Noel has been passionate about this service.
Noel had a deep love for people and valued each person whoever they were (Galatians 3 v 28). Through his work with the Gideons, along with his veterinary career, he met a wide range of people from royalty and ambassadors to struggling farmers and desperate prisoners. Being a Gideon was the best way he could be a witness for God (Romans 1 v 16).
Noel particularly enjoyed serving with the young, by distributing New Testaments in schools and universities (Matthew 19 v 14), and also in prison ministry. ‘Brother Noel’, as the prisoners called him, retired from his mission in the Chaplaincy department of HMP Hewell in 2018 after 15 years volunteering there. This was not the end of his work with the Gideons, continuing to store and spread the Word of God for the local branch (Phil 1 v 6).
Noel surely had purpose in life, a future and a hope, the Lord never failed him and he knew he was loved and cherished (John 15 v 9). We can never really know whose lives have been touched (Heb 11 v 1), so trust that his ministry with the Gideons, his testament of faith, will not return empty handed (Isaiah 55 v 11).
Noel’s death has left his wife Olive, four daughters, Caroline, Sonia, Lorna, Vanessa, sister Margaret, grandchildren, great grandchildren and many in-laws, nieces, nephews, friends and family heartbroken (Ps 34 v 18). His funeral took place in February, celebrating that he finished the race (2 Tim 4 v 7), with hundreds of pounds donated to Woodgreen Evangelical Church and of course, The Gideons.
- Vanessa Evagora, daughter.