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By now most of you will have received the latest magazine. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have. Have you opened it yet? Because I have just learnt that some readers don’t open their magazine until they have a quiet moment to sit down with a cup of coffee and read it in peace. Of course it is important to make sure you have a quiet space in your day when you pick it up, because most of us don’t put it down again until we have read it from cover to cover! WE go through looking at the pictures with the children, reading some of the stories out loud to them. The older children sneak off to their rooms with it to read it themselves. It’s like going to a mini conference, with Nancy sharing a couple of times and a whole load of encouraging testimonies from other mums we can identify with. We laugh, we cry, we read with our heart in our mouths of the tribulations and joys of other families. There is comedy, tragedy, celebration and truth, challenge and thanksgiving. And before you know it you are relating the stories to others, showing them the magazine and wishing you had one to give them without losing your own precious copy. Am I right? Do you fit this picture?
Just four weeks and Colin and Nancy will be in the UK again. Europe has come up trumps in terms of organisation. There will be meetings this time in Belgium (near the Dutch border), Germany and the Czech Republic. They will be in Northern Ireland this year for the first time. There are no media interviews arranged this time, and there will be few, if any, meetings in England this visit, other than the ladies retreat in Sussex and some meetings in Durham. I would encourage you to make the most of this visit. Colin and Nancy are 71 and 70 years old now, and we cannot expect them to be globetrotting for too many more years, especially if each visit is a whirlwind of meetings all over Europe. Remember how far they have travelled to meet with you, and do your best to make the effort to travel to meet with them. It’s not too late to book into the ladies retreat to hear Nancy teach and have great fellowship with other readers. If you are quick, you might even manage to get into the family camp before registration is finalised. You can come to either as a day visitor.
Congratulations to Sarah and Damian Dawes, who have just welcomed
Joy-Anna into the world a few days ago. Sarah is the webmaster for Europe and is organising the camp in March – a lot of work for a nursing mum with six children! Damian will be recording both conferences, and the dvds will be on sale soon afterwards.
So head for the conference page now to register for a conference, or to the bookstall/resources to buy yourself an encouraging book. May your family be the Good News of Jesus Christ to the world around you
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