The spiritual temperature around us feels very hot at the moment. We are making big plans for 2010 in the UK and France particularly, at a time when there is significant opposition to what we are seeking to achieve. I’m carrying a strong word from God at the moment about evangelism and church planting initiatives in Cornwall, particularly around the disused chapels in the rural areas. It impacts me greatly that so much of what we have in this country in terms of strategies that take the Gospel to unreached people are very urban in their nature. Of course the inner cities are desolate places but the rural places also need reaching in a different way. I wrote to my friend Don Double last week who is a man with decades of spiritual battles behind him having been used by God across the earth to bring multitudes to faith in Christ. Don lives in Cornwall and there seems to be a connection between us fore that place. My plan is to travel down there soon to push the doors.

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago we were in the middle of an extraordinary series of events that resulted in a £5,000 bill on the Mainstage trailer and its tractor unit. What followed was the steady and unexpected flow of resources to meet the costs. Thank you to all of you who were prompted to give to this need, as always we couldn’t have got through without your partnership.

This last couple of weeks have thrown up a number of opportunities for me to communicate the Gospel to young people and adults in a variety of contexts from a big youth event to other smaller gatherings and meetings with many responding to Jesus. Next week I go to Normandy to further build on the plans for June and July.