Dear friends, I hope and pray that this update finds you well. It was a blessing to be able to connect and share with some of you during my January visit to the USA. For those I missed, maybe next time around. It’s been a lovely spring in England. It must be difficult being an atheist looking at all the spring flowers popping from the ground and having to imagine they came from nothing.
We
know better and our hearts are filled with joy as they point us to the Creator
of all things.
The
church is going well with all of its varied ministries. I’ve been blessed with the privilege of
teaching in the church every now and then.
The church is quite a mix of British and internationals with a number of
university students attending. We will
be hosting our annual UK Pastor’s Conference the first week of June. Please pray for the Lord’s hand to be upon
that and that He would bring those in need of refreshment.
It’s been another blessed semester. This semester I am teaching Acts and 1&2 Thessalonians. We have students representing England, Ireland, Israel, America, Switzerland, Finland, and Canada. Every semester we receive Israeli students through a scholarship program from the Joshua Fund. Most of these students are former IDF soldiers or current reservists and bring a mature dynamic to the student body.
Speaker’s Week
For
the past few semesters we’ve been able to return to the Jonas Centre in the
lovely Yorkshire Dales for Speaker’s Week.
It’s a week-long break from the normal classroom setting where students
are able to hike in an idyllic setting and hear the voice of the Lord. Psalm 23 comes alive in the midst of the
bleating of newborn spring lambs.
Outreach Week
In the post-Covid world we have resumed sending teams out for outreach week. We sent a team to Sligo, Ireland where they assisted a local Calvary Chapel with evangelism and other community service projects. I was able to go with a team to Millstatt, Austria (the Castle) where we spent a week cleaning and preparing the facility for the upcoming summer conference season. We had morning devotions in 1 John each work day. We were able to spend a day in Salzburg and met some Austrian street preachers and prayed with them (Michael and Stefan). One of them had a banjo and played "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms” for us. It actually sounded pretty good; no offense to banjo enthusiasts.
Coffee Shop in Salzburg
Austria Team
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| Schloss Heroldeck at Dusk |
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| Lake Millstatt |
York Baptist Church
I
was blessed with an invitation to speak at York Baptist Church recently for
their Sunday evening service. The
message was on “Why the Resurrection Matters”.
York Baptist Church was pastored by F.B. Meyer in the 1870’s and it was
from there that D.L. Moody began a fruitful evangelistic campaign. England has an incredibly rich spiritual
heritage but is in great need of a fresh work of grace. Please join me in praying for this!
Please
pray for our Bible college students as the semester ends and they seek the Lord
for the right way to go
That
the Lord would put together the student body for the upcoming fall semester
For
the upcoming UK Pastors Conference
For
the Calvary Chapel youth retreat that we will be hosting in mid June.
For
a fruitful summer
About
Me:
Paul Goodwin
I have been serving at Calvary Chapel York, England since 2016. I teach at the Bible College and serve at the
church in a variety of ways including teaching, prison ministry and leading
worship. If you'd like to follow my journey more
closely, I have a blog (www.pfgoodwin.blogspot.com). I can be contacted at pfgoodwin@hotmail.com.
If you wish to
support this ministry, contributions can be addressed to "Shepherd's
Staff" with account #1454 in the memo section of check and sent to
Shepherd's Staff, 6739 Academy Road, Suite 320, Albuquerque, NM 87109.
Automatic EFT can be set up through Shepherd's Staff website: www.ssmfi.org.
Prayers are also greatly appreciated.
The Lord bless you!
