Turning Point is our vision to release the Mainstage to
Mainland Europe and beyond from the summer of 2009. We have
strong relationships in France where Turning Point will be launched
and growing links into Germany and other European nations.
Longer term we see Turning Point in Africa too where we also
have close links in Kenya, Uganda and Burundi particularly. Plans are coming together
in dramatic fashion but it will take many miracles of favour and provision.
A story from history
Shortly after the
Normandy Landings in June 1944 the Allies were faced with the logistical challenge of getting millions of gallons of fuel to the armies of liberation in order that the wheels and tracks could keep turning on 150,000 vehicles. With the ports destroyed and tankers falling foul of attacks in the English Channel, Pipe Line Under The Ocean or PLUTO was the audacious solution. A breathtaking response to a seemingly impossible logistical problem. And so it was that a single 100 mile long flexible pipeline was laid on the sea bed stretching from Shanklin on the Isle of Wight to the Cherbourg Peninsula in Normandy. As the liberators went further into Europe the pipeline was extended overland eventually crossing the Rhine into Germany itself.
The two ships that laid the pipeline, HMS Latimer and HMS Ridley were named after two Bishops who were burnt at the stake for the Gospel in Oxford in 1555. As they died, Latimer said “Be of good cheer Brother Ridley for we shall this day by God’s grace kindle a torch in England that will never been extinguished” That quotation was written on a plaque that was carried on both ships and was the dream and the war cry of the creators of the PLUTO pipeline.
We have set up the Miracle Street PLUTO Fund to finance the
work of Turning Point and to be the pipeline for many thousands
of Pounds, Dollars and Euros.