Scotland 2009

Our tireless outreach coordinator who is responsible for organizing all the outreaches for the 17 outreach teams coming to Greenock, has not stopped since we landed on Monday morning. The outreach teams will be placed alongside ministries already engaged in very valuable work here in prisons, street evangelism, ministry to drug addicts, nursing homes, hospitals, etc. The teams will come in and essentially support and work alongside them.

Morning

The outreach coordinator met with various churches to discuss the placement of the outreach teams at the church services on Sunday where team members will speak, give their testimonies, sing or just fellowship with the congregation. keep in mind, that is 200+ team members in a city where the average church is far smaller than that!

Afternoon

He met with the representative for the Inverclyde Youth for Christ that is working with us to place outreach teams in schools throughout the Greenock and Port Glasgow area, where the teams will do music, sports, drama, and life issues with the kids. The head teacher at one of the schools is a born-again Christian and is thrilled that the teams are coming and has opened the doors wide to minister to the children.

Dusk to Dawn

In the evening, the outreach coordinator attended a coffee house style ministry by a local church which will host one of the teams, to check out what they might be doing. When he returned to the hotel he still faced the arduous task of finalizing the outreach teams schedule which has become a massive document with multiple color bands and times. He did not get to sleep until 4:30am only to start all over again the next day at 8:00am. All in a very long day’s work, with joy unto the Lord!