We had a wonderful time at Town family camp this year. We had a great team of leaders who worked very hard all week. The discussion times with moms and Dads were really good, a real time of breakthrough this year. Thank you for all your prayers God is truly at work in the city. Please continue to remember us in your prayers.

Please pray for Dublin Christian Mission, it is a great work reaching many needy people all over Dublin City. Enjoy the video and praise the Lord for the work He is doing through DCM.

Martha and I would like to thank you all for your prayers during Family camp with DCM this summer. It was an amazing week. We had a great time with all the families and the team. God really blessed the week in many ways. Enjoy the video!

Here are two video clips on Missional church. The first is a clip from Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in NYC, talking about the characteristics of a Missional Church. The second is Michael Frost an Australian missiologist and one of the leading voices in the international missional church movement. In the clip below Frost gives a definition of Missional. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

A couple of weeks ago we as a family took part in one of DCM’s Family camps. It was such a blessing to be envolved in seeing God work in the lives of the kids and there mom’s at the camp. Martha was blessed as she spoke to the mom’s and disscussed many questions about Jesus. Please pray for the work of Dublin Christian Mission.

I found this video on Eugene Cho’s blog, what an amazing story. Powerful faith, powerful witness. A true hero. Have a look.

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I am reading a book at the moment by Alan Hirsch called “The Forgotten Ways”. Alan is the co author of an excellent book on missional learning for the established church as it faces the challenges of the twenty-first century its called “The Shape of Things to Come”. In the forgotten ways Hirsch asks a question “How many Christians do you think there were in the year AD 100?” He then asked, “How many Christians do you think there were just before Constantine came on the scene, say AD 310?

You may be somewhat surprised by the answer.

In AD 100, there were as few as 25,000 Christians in the world.

By AD 310, just before Constantine came on the scene there were up to 20,000,000 Christians in the world.

He then asked the question: “How did they do this?” How did they grow from being a small movement to the most significant religious force in the Roman Empire in Just two centuries? So here is the same question for you to think about “How did the early Christians do it? Let me know what you think.

Phil