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.

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, 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