Dear Friends and Prayer
Partners:
We returned from our travels to visit family in the USA four
weeks ago, and somehow the days have filled up and flown by.
Perhaps it is just part of our getting older, but it appears to be
happening in the world around us too. There are so many things
going on, surely we are living in unprecedented times.
The field above our chapel has a fast-growing new crop coming up,
already taller than the fence by the lane. During all these years
it has been wheat or barley, oats or rapeseed. But this corn is a
total change and adds a lush green radiance to the surroundings.
It seems to speak of other changes as well.
One of those changes is that our pastor of more than twenty years
will be retiring at the end of the year, though he will still take
the monthly services most of the year. This is a bit unsettling
for our small congregation and we trust the Lord will use this for
his purposes. We know He has a plan so we just try to be faithful to
what we were called to do here, and expect the harvest just
like the farmer awaits his incoming crop.
![Intercessors at Mwnt](https://walesawakening.org/images/friendsbythesea.jpeg)
We have also found ourselves in the middle of a string of some
very "out of the blue" visitors who've been led to come and pray
for Wales. These folks from the U.S. were with us briefly last
week and had been directed very clearly to come and intercede for
specific needs and follow God's guidance day by day. They got in
touch through a "chance" encounter with a mutual friend and had a
very full and fruitful two days here. For example, when we took
them to visit and pray here at the very old chapel in Mwnt we
asked some ladies to please take our picture. They turned out to
be Christians too and were encouraged and blessed by our brief
encounter!
It was no coincidence that just two days before this visit, I got
a message from some English friends who had just returned from a
time in America where they received a strategic direction for
prayer between both nations. We hope to meet up with them soon to
pray together and seek the Lord as to how they can follow through
with this. There are lots of activities going on across the
UK—prayer networks operating, summer evangelistic outreaches going
on, and more we don't know about yet—all flowing together from the
Lord's master plan.
It is our joy and privilege to discover each new activity and
connection with admiration at His workings among us, not unlike
finding a tiny flower or fruit that we've never seen before. Also
last week
we heard from a dear old
Gospel Outreach friend of 50 years that she was in Israel and had
met a sister from Hong Kong who God had called to come and set up
a prayer house in London. Hours later she got in touch and asked
if we could we meet with her on the weekend. We weren't able to
coordinate it, but when we spoke briefly, she told us she
recognized us from photos on our web page and that we had actually
prayed for her two years ago for the Lord to confirm His direction
for her in a prayer mission! It seems that this divinely
orchestrated networking is happening around the nations and the
pace is picking up. It brings to mind the first verse of Psalm
133, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it
is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
Just one more example is a meeting that we had in New York, once
again through an old G.O. friend,
![New New York Friends](https://walesawakening.org/images/newnewyorkfriends.jpeg)
with his friends who have created
a musical drama based on the Welsh and Asbury Revivals. Their goal is to bring this
to Wales and the UK next year to encourage the Body of Christ both
corporately and individually to spend time in God's presence and be
empowered for the work to which they have been called. Each and
every one of us has an important part to play.
When we met, they asked us to do a spontaneous interview on the
street so I thought we'd share it with you here at this link. We hope it encourages
you as it encourages and reminds us of what we're up to here. As
Paul exhorts in 2 Timothy:6-7, "Therefore I
remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through
the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of
fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
Together with you in His hands,
Dick & Gladys