Jan 25 JOHN NEWTON, THE OPEN AIR MISSION, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, THE ECCENTRICS’ CONFERENCE, A NEW PREACHER IN ABERYSTWYTH For me the New Year begins with the Carey Conference in Swanwick, Derbyshire, that beautiful hilly county with many of its…
Salisbury Conference
Dec 4th THE SALISBURY CONFERENCE, THE THEME OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, A VISIT TO ULSTER AND A BURGLAR ON MY BIRTHDAY This autumn is special meeting and conference time. There have been trips to London and I was…
Reformation Conference in Laura
Dec 4th REFORMATION CONFERENCE IN LAURA Many American churches annually celebrate Luther nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Castle Church, Wittenberg on October 31 1517. It was the Reformer’s protest against the scandals of the indulgence traffic. The…
Revival Conference
Dec 3rd REVIVAL CONFERENCE, AND MATTHEW HENRY’S PULPIT Iola and I went to the annual conference of the Reformation and Revival Fellowship on November 20 in Swanwick. The details of the history of the Fellowship can be read in a…
Another visit to Northern Ireland
September 21st ANOTHER VISIT TO NORTHERN IRELAND A visit to Northern Ireland is generally a delight. I have also failed miserably in some meetings there over the years. Those memories cannot be expunged, but I am asked back, and the…
Aber 2006
THE ABERYSTWYTH CONFERENCE The annual Evangelical Movement of Wales Conference took place here in the second week of August. It has been going on for forty-nine years (what a Jubilee next year) and for forty-eight it has been in this seaside…
USA 2006
August 7th USA 2006 At the beginning of July, the day before we flew to America, we took the train to London and while Iola went with Barbara to Kew Gardens I took the underground to the Elephant and Castle…
Grand Rapids 2006
May 26th GRAND RAPIDS, 2006 I set off for Grand Rapids at 8.25 Monday morning May 15 getting a lift with Eleri, my oldest daughter and a London pastors wife, who was driving their five boys to school through…
Sam Rotman’s visit to Aberystwyth 06
May 1st SAM ROTMAN’S VISIT TO ABERYSTWYTH APRIL 2006 The last week-end of April in Aberystywth was the occasion of a visit by Sam Rotman and his wife Deborah, the first time they had been to Wales. Though we have…
The Exorcist
We occasionally have a little blessing in the church; in one recent prayer meeting 16 prayed, eight men and then eight women. Then again eleven men prayed. I will sometimes control it all and ask by name one person after another…