Fellowship Rally
10 May 2025

I would like to tell you how I eventually I came to trust Jesus as my Saviour and Lord, and the change he has made in my life. I was born in Devonshire. I'm a West countryman, in 1939 on Exmoor, in the West Country of Devon during the second world war. I was brought up in South Devon, and went to school in a little town on the river Dart called Totness, a beautiful place, that's where I was brought up and that's where I was saved In 1954. I was just in my early teens then, I left school a 14, but in 1954, Billy Graham was was having meetings, he was speaking at the Harringay Crusade in London, I wasn't there I was two hundred miles away and the meetings were relayed to Devon, it was there that I heard the glorious gospel of a saviour who loved me and that he died for me and if I would commit my heart and life to Him then he would give me eternal life. No one ever begged me to go to the front, I was one of the first.

I came, not from a happy home, a divided home, I didn't have a christian upbringing and that didn't help and I was sad. That's where I was saved, the Lord is mighty to save and he is also mighty to keep.

We must reach out with the Gospel to the lost, it is imperative that we do.

1. Matthew's Gospel 28: 18-21, Dr Alec said, here we have the last final order of Jesus Christ to his followers vs 19. Go .. therefore .... vs 20 and lo I am with you always even to the end of the age. We have to reach out to the lost in this great gospel outreach, we have been commanded to go. In verse 19 we are told to go ... in verse 20 why are you anxious to go? We should never be, because Jesus said, "I am with you." .....

2. "I will be with you always .. even to the end of the age. "So we go with the gospel to reach out to the lost, free from anxiety sharing the Gospel with them.

3. Galations 1: 6-9 How sad it is to read and to hear of another gospel that is being preached, some are giving a substitute gospel. We have the word of God, breathed out by the Lord.

4. John 4: 4-30, 39-42. Here Jesus is sitting at Sychar's well, a Samaritan woman comes to draw water from the well, he is weary, Jesus says to her Give me a drink, Jesus had a lovely way of approaching her "Give me a Drink" or, "Can I have a Drink!" With the Samaritan Woman, Jesus was gentle in his approach, with Nicodemus, Jesus was direct in his approach.

5. How do we reach the lost? How do we talk to them? Remember Jesus was weary The Lord Jesus knows that we can grow weary in His evangelism but, we don't grow weary of the Lord's work.

A group of us go to Manchester to the Jews and give out the Hebrew Scriptures (Jews don't often have a copy of their scriptures) they are really happy to receive them, though occasionally we may receive opposition. A lovely way to approach them, "It's lovely to see you, how are you! Can I give you a copy of the Hebrew scriptures. They are printed in Hebrew and their current language on the page opposite, for example when distributing the scriptures to the English speaking Jew they are printed in Hebrew and English. We go on different days with tracts to Preston, Lancaster and Manchester and distribute the Hebrew Scriptures whilst visiting the Jewish communities.

I was in Lancaster recently, I had taken some tracts with me, there weren't many people where I was standing at the time, then a large group girls or students appeared, they were coming towards me - I was praying for them and amongst these girls was a tall African boy, he stood out amongst them. The girls weren't interested in taking a tract, the African boy stopped, he took a tract and smiled, I said, "It's so nice to meet you, do you know that God loves you so much!" A tear rolled down his cheek, my Mother and Father talk just like you. My parents live in Nicosia (Cyprus) I'm from there, originally we come from Kenya. Here was this boy thousands of miles from home and studying in Lancaster.

Dr Alec said, there's little me saying, "Has anyone told you that God loves you!" And his parents would have been praying for him all the time he was away studying. I was about to ask him if he wanted to give his heart and life to Jesus as his Saviour and Lord, then the girls came out from a store and called him away.

Please pray for him and his parents in Nicosia Cyprus as they pray for their son that, the Lord will continue the good work He has begun in his life and he will soon come to trust Jesus as his Saviour and Lord.

Matthew 28: 19 - 20 NKJV

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe

all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am

with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.