November 20, 2006 update--Amazing Results!!

Amazing response certainly sums up our 2nd faith promise mission conference! What a great conference we had. Our guest preacher was Dr. John Halsey International Representative with BIMI. He has such a fantastic way of presenting faith promise. The folks in our church are really beginning to see that the world is more then just Dublin, Ireland. We had the Williams missionaries from Northern Ireland to Honduras and the Pereiras from Portugal to their home land of Portugal. God used Dr. Halsey in a special way to bring the reality of the needs of the world before our church and to then challenge the hearts of our church with the responsibility of continuing to reach the lost in Dublin while at the same time reaching out to the lost around the world. Last year our church gave €5,000 to missions for our first ever faith promise commitment. Praise the Lord that we met that commitment in total! This year were were all amazed with great delight when the total commitment for the upcoming year of €11,000 was announced to the church last night! How exciting and what a joyous time we had in praising the Lord with a more then double commitment from the previous year. Kieran MacCourt gave a testimony in the morning service and as soon as he was done Eamonn MacDonnell stood up and said, "I would like to give a testimony too." He came to the front and thanked God for his salvation and his fast growing love for the Lord. He then gave testimony to the fact that he has begun witnessing to others at work as well as putting tracts out in the neighborhood where he is working. Continue to pray for Eamonn's wife Aileen. She thinks he is on some passing phase in his life, but she did make a big plumb tart for him to bring to the international banquet on Saturday night! We are trusting the Lord for her soon salvation. Eamonn is burdened for her and the rest of his family. Speaking of International banquet with seven different nationalities in our church we had a very authentic international banquet that was out of this world. Lord willing I will get some picture out soon. Thank you for praying for our conference.

May the Lord find us faithful!
Don Thatcher