A Macedonian call

2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I willhear from heaven, andIwillforgive their sin andwillhealtheir land.

AMacedonian call

Around this same time period in 2001, following on from our work together in ‘Approching Revival’ and ‘Church in Revival’ , The Porters and team along with ourselves began a new Methodist network under the name of ‘Ignite’ . We were looking to gather likeminded Christians and church leaders together for worship, prayer and encouragement. During one of our Ignite conference times at Cli College in Derbyshire we met Isaac Limm who was then the president of the Methodist Church in Singapore and a group of his fellow ministers. This was a great connection that was to grow over the coming years. Soon after the international guests had returned home I recieved a telephone call from one of the ministers who had been staying in our home, the Reverend Sng Chong Hui. He felt he should contact me asking if I could go out to his church in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore to train and equip the Youth Worship Team. I was taken back and said I’d pray about it, and get back to him. A few minutes later. He called again. ‘By the way’ he said ‘It’s a Macedonian call !. We would like you all to come out as a family and we will cover all expenses’ This was unusual but really welcome as it meant that we could share together in a dierent context and have our children with us. We spent more time chatting over the weeks and arrangements were made for us to visit in December of 2002. By this time we had 3 children, Jess, Sam and Lily (she was to take her first ministry trip at the ripe old age of 6 months.) What an amazing trip and a time to work out how to best equip teams. We spent week number one of three meeting with the young people and leaders. I led worship in all the various services oered at Ang Mo Kio and began to get a sense of how best to move forward. Weeks 2 and 3 consisted of practical training with the band, some spiritual input, songwriting classes and even working with the church choir. It was Sng Chong Hui’s desire to bring together what intil then had been age related gatherings. Childrens’s church. Youth church and Adult Church. Our goal was to have the team ready to lead worship in the adult service for the very forst time on the final week of our trip.