November – December 2009

Dear Friends,

         These past two months have been full of events, seminars, and planning. Nearly 50 missionaries came together at the White House for a Thanksgiving Celebration in November and that same weekend we worked with Bro Liles as he hosted a Reformission Seminar. The goal was to encourage the missionaries and pastors to increase their vision for church planting here in the UK. Pray with us to this end. England is more open now to the gospel than ever before. I truly believe that a new wave of church planting is just what we need and new missionaries are on their way.
          Though more missionaries can be vital, our real goal is getting the Brits into church planting. Pray they will not only see the need, but also have the zeal and sacrifice necessary to move toward the goal. We want to see 20 church planted before we retire and we won’t be able to do this alone!
          December found us planning Christmas events and our Dead Serious Saturday that was held on January 2nd. Dead Serious Saturday was a youth event for the churches here in the UK. Our teens did the planning and worked hard to make the event a success. We had 70 young people attend. The day was filled with games and activities and three dead serious sermons: one on salvation, one on keeping your testimony and one on service. Mixed with this they had two times of devotions, which were led by the young adults. It was so great to see that we now have enough young adults equipped to lead the teens into God’s Word.
          Kingsmead Baptist Church and Hope Baptist Church have held baptismal services at Temple. It is wonderful to see our baby church growing.
         Another baptismal for Kingsmead is set for January 10th and Temple will be baptizing as well, praise the Lord!

In His Service,
Tom and Gail Grittss