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May/June 2019

For as long as I can remember, I’ve associated the summer with Christian ministry. As a child, I loved Holiday Bible Clubs, before graduating to camps as a teenager. Since then I’ve been privileged to be able to continue attending both camps and summer conferences as a leader or team member. I’ve clocked up twenty-five camps, twenty-five Aber conferences, and I also love attending Word Alive, the Keswick Convention, the Bala Conference and others. Sadly, there’s not enough time to go to them all every year!

All that has taught me that summer is a great time for ministry and evangelism, and that’s the focus of this issue of the Evangelical Magazine. If you’ve never been involved in a summer camp before, it can feel a little bit like getting dropped in at the deep end, as Lewis Morgans testifies. But don’t think summer evangelism is just about children and teenagers – Phil Raine explains how his church use the summer to give a ‘holiday at home’ to those who are retired. We hear from plenty of others too, from Ally Hodgkiss doing overseas mission in Uganda, to Paul Davies doing beach mission in Swansea!

Evangelism doesn’t have to be organised though. Rebecca Whittaker reminds us of the importance of women evangelising women, Mark Pickett talks about witnessing to our Hindu neighbours, and John Lennox reminds us of the power of simply talking about Jesus.

There’s plenty more inside, of course. Mark Thomas reminds us that it’s good to draw near to God. Dorin Dumitrascu tells us what it was like to grow up as a Christian behind the iron curtain – and how things have changed. Clare Heath-Whyte tells us how important Mary Müller’s ministry was to the orphans of Bristol. John Funnell asks ‘What is truth?’, while Paul O’Brien tells us how it feels to be spared by God. And we go on a little trip to the often-forgotten city of Shechem to discover more about conflict, covenant and choice.

  1. It is good to be near God
    by Mark Thomas

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  2. Persecution, revival and opposition - Daily life in Romania
    by Anonymous

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  3. In at the deep end
    by Lewis Morgans

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  4. Mary Müller
    by Clare Heath-Whyte

    6 likes
  5. Women evangelising women
    by Rebecca Whittaker

    2 likes
  6. Christian Camps in Wales - CCiW
    by Ralph Hammond

    77 likes
  7. Beach Mission
    by Paul Davies

    69 likes
  8. Overseas mission
    by Ally Hodgkiss

    6 likes
  9. What is truth?
    by John Funnell

    17 likes
  10. Sharing Jesus with your Hindu neighbour
    by Mark Pickett

    6 likes
  11. Spared by God
    by Paul O'Brien

    55 likes
  12. A holiday at home? Why not?
    by Phil Raine

    4 likes
  13. Conflict, covenant and choice – lessons from Shechem
    by Mark Barnes

    7 likes
  14. Conversing about Jesus
    by John Lennox

    1 like
  15. Book review — The Fight of Faith - lives and testimonies from the battlefield
    by Nichola Napper

    3 likes
  16. Book review — The truth about Hell
    by Nigel T. Faithfull

    3 likes
  17. Book review — Does Atheism make sense?

    3 likes
  18. Book review — 12 rules for life - an antidote to chaos
    by Jonny Raine

    1 like

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