Monthly News Business Men’s Fellowship

(UK) PO Box 679

Whitley Bay England United Kingdom

NE26 9AX Tel: 0845 519 2473 www.businessmen.org.uk December 2011

Testimony

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to

another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for

Christ's sake hath forgiven you

Olympic Chaplin, Dave Smethurst was the guest speaker at the BMF Dinner meeting held in Wigan recently. David Smethurst and his wife Margurita were called into by ministry God in 1972 . This calling has taken them into churches, schools, youth groups, colleges, con-vents, military bases, prisons etc across the world including Africa, Australia, USA, Britain, Ireland, Latvia and other ex So-viet countries, Yugoslavia, Singapore,

Malaysia, Ice-land. 1988 saw the establish-ment of the S m e t h u r s t Ministries in A u s t r a l i a . From preach-ing in Lutheran

Churches in Australia God gave the minis-try favour with the Lutheran Arch Bishop of Eastern Europe resulting in teams min-istering in Latvia and other ex Soviet countries in churches, schools and or-phanages Dave has been the Chaplin to many major world sporting events through the years and also supports or-phanages in Eastern Europe and the

Ukraine, supporting more than 5,500 orphans. At the dinner in Wigan following the ministry time 7 people came to the Lord. This was also a fund raiser for a 5 year old local girl names Emma Hoolin who was undergoing chemo for leukae-mia. The Lord led me to give all the all the proceeds of the DVD/CD sales to her fund – 230 pounds. That was a real privilege. Her grandfather, Stan Hoolin, was there to receive the gifts. He got quite emotional about it There were quite a lot of Africans there from Malawi & Zambia. I took a flyer and asked if anyone spoke Zulu. One woman (Freda) came from Durban (my home city) raised her hand and we had a bit of dialog. The crowd loved that. A Zambian lady with her came to the Lord.

Norma & Allan Jones with Dave Smethurst

Freda with Dave

Stuart with Stan Hoolin

Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International International Leaders Prayer Summit. The Leadership in Canada, America, Nigeria, the UK, and Asia, together with Business Men’s Fellowship in America, invite all Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship nations who have either voluntarily removed them-selves from being under the control struc-ture of the International office, or who have been removed from connection with the International office, or who do not identify with more recent actions of the International office, to join together from Thursday, January 12th to Saturday, January 14th, 2012 in London for a Full Gospel Busi-ness Men’s Fellowship International Lead-ers Prayer Summit.

The proposed Leadership Prayer Summit will particularly provide opportunity to:

1. Seek God’s mind with regard to restoring and re-building relationships

2. Move forward again in unity and har-mony

3. More fully achieve God’s global vision as given to our founder, Demos Shakarian

4. Re-establish fellowship among nations, re- empowering them together in Christ for global witness

The BMF have been invited to at-tend and our CEO Steven Turnbull will at-tend the meeting to observe on our behalf who said “I agree we should go, to pray and to listen on the Lord. We really need to seek the Lord’s direction in the weeks ahead. I believe BMF was called into being by our father and he has given us a work to do through it.” Therefore I would ask and encour-age all our members to bring this before the Lord in that His will be done in all things

Wednesday 14th December 7:00pm, Sanaam Tandoori Restaurant, Falkirk,

Speaker: Barry Miller. Contact: David +447 764 501 514, or Fraser +447 764 763 091or Duncan

+441 324 624 519 or duncan.dougall@blueyonder.co.uk

Answer New Testament

OUTREACH

For the three people who responded to the Salvation call at the Ignalina (Lithuania) Out-reach on Sunday 6th November, 30 present For the two people who received Jesus as Lord and Saviour at the Prienai (Lithuania) Outreach on Friday 11th November, 40 at-tending For the seven people who accepted that Je-sus is their Saviour at the Vilnius (Lithuania) Outreach on Sunday 13th November, 72 pre-sent For the four people who acknowledged Jesus as Lord and Saviour at the Anyksciai (Lithuania) Outreach on Tuesday 15th Novem-ber, 50 attending For the eight people who gave their lives to Jesus at the Klaipeda (Lithuania) Outreach on Sunday 20th November, 40 present For the four people who responded to the Salvation call at the Ukmerge (Lithuania) Out-reach on Sunday 20th November, 40 attend-ing For the eight people who accepted that Jesus is their Saviour at the Krakes (Lithuania) Out-reach on Monday 21st November, 20 present

For the twenty one people who acknowl-edged Jesus as Lord and Saviour at the Kau-nas (Lithuania) Outreach on Saturday 26th November, 100 attending For the five people who received Jesus as Lord and Saviour at the Aukstadvaris (Lithuania) Outreach on Sunday 27th Novem-ber, 45 present For the man and the female social worker who accepted Jesus as Saviour at the Jelgava Prison (Latvia) Outreach on Friday 2nd Decem-ber; there was a long ministry time For the woman who acknowledged Jesus to be her Lord and Saviour at the Skrunda (Latvia) Outreach on Saturday 3rd December. Two people received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and there was much ministry For the two men and a waitress who gave their lives to Jesus at the Jelgava (Latvia) Out-reach on Sunday 4th December For the four people who received Jesus as Saviour at the Halstahammar (Sweden) Pro-motion on Tuesday 6thDecember, 35 attend-ing.

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2012

By Stephen Jefferies

CONFERENCE DATES

WiganWigan 17th March 2012

LivingstonLivingston

6th 7th 8th October 2012

Watch this space for more details

Roddy Maddocks is the son of a British Diplomat which moving around the world when he was young. We moved to Belgium, Hong Kong, Canada then finally France. From when I was 11 years old I went to a boarding school in the UK and went on to study engineering at university. To try and find a purpose I got heavily involved with the sub aqua diving club. This was exciting and it gave me an escape from sorting out what I was really aiming to do with my life. All this extreme diving activity had an effect on my health and I consulted a doctor. Dr Cox could tell that in addition to some physical issues. I was spiritually searching for something to fill the vacuum in my life and he invited

me to an FGBMFI dinner meetings. Whilst part of me knew that it was some-thing I wanted more of, another part of me was strongly resistant to the idea of committing to a Christian belief. At an FGBMFI breakfast meeting in 1992 I asked Jesus into my life by say-ing the sinner’s prayer. Over the years since asking Jesus into my life, I haven’t always been a good Christian but always, God has, through his grace, given me forgiveness when I have repented of my sins. Roddy is a Technical Specialist within the Information Systems Dept at Oxfam and is a member of the Aylesbury Chapter of BMF.

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