I’m on the ferry returning from a two day trip to Normandy with some of the team having begun plans for significant evangelistic endeavours in the region in June and July 2010. Having struggled somewhat in previous years to get the plans off the ground we sensed that we are now in the timing of God for 2010. Although we have done some great stuff in Europe this year, I long to see a bridgehead established in Northern France and then seek to carry the Gospel to Berlin retracing the path of the liberation in 1944 and 1945 through Belgium and Holland. This is certainly not some kind of historical re-enactment but a spiritual journey to declare Jesus the great reconciler and healer of nations. I know that we will see a multitude come to Christ in places such as Caen and Lisieux in France and Nijmegen and Arnhem in Holland as we go to the ‘Killing Fields’ of Europe.

This week I was speaking at a youth event at the Oakwood Youth Challenge in Wokingham attended by around 120 young people. It was brilliant to see 60 to 70 of them walk over my little wooden bridge as an act of response to God’s love and the message of the cross. Please pray for the team there at Oakwood and the many young people who are taking real steps towards salvation in these days. I’m starting to prepare now for the forthcoming events in Madrid!