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Bring Back Lockdown!
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“The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent.”
2 Peter 3:9(NLT)
Let’s make mission local
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Jesus said to His disciples:
“You shall be My witnesses [to tell people about Me] both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”
Extract Acts 1:8 (NKJV) [additional text mine]
The Promises of Spring
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“… the soil makes the young plant come up and a garden causes seeds to grow …”
— Isaiah 61:11 (NIV-UK)
Why Should I Go? (Kindle version)
“My daughter once sent me a page of a magazine that she had been handed in the street by someone. It was purely a co-incidence, you might say; but I say it was a God-instance.
My daughter wasn’t a Christian, but the magazine was. Something made her take that magazine that day; something made her realise the importance of one page – so much so that she tore out the page and sent it to me. She couldn’t just hand it to me – she had to send it. You see, I was in prison at the time.”
Why should I Go? is the fifth in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. The author explains how that page changed his life forever – and how it could do the same for you! The church, united, could change the world – and you, too, could be a part of that.
Do you want to change the world ..?
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission –
making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
No more tears, No more shame (Kindle version)
“I was adopted when I was three days old: unloved, unwanted, rejected and abandoned; or so I thought. I was the product of an unplanned pregnancy – I existed by chance, not by choice – so I was just a mistake; I didn’t matter at all! You get the logic, don’t you? You can follow all that and ‘get it.’ It makes perfect sense.
But I want to show you a different perspective.
Let me take you back – right back to the beginning – before the beginning of time, and before the earth was formed, and give you a different perspective, a different view to the one the world shows you!”
No more tears, no more shame is the sixth in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. The author explains how you are here by choice, not by chance. You might be a product of your past, but change is not only possible, it can help you live the life of your wildest dreams!
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission –
making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
Just Imagine (Kindle version)
“So, I went there – to Estonia – with one question for God: ‘what do you want me to do?’ And it was there, in the stillness, in the quietness, literally thousands of miles away from home, that I felt God’s answer.
Now, God being God – if you ask Him one question, He gives you three back!! So, from asking God, ‘what do you want me to do?’ came the answers:
- Firstly: What are you supposed to do as a Christian? Not how are you supposed to behave, but what are you supposed to DO?
- Secondly: What’s the church for?
- And thirdly, and very challengingly: How are you doing?”
Just Imagine is the seventh in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. The author explains how you can live the life of your wildest dreams! And how to get to heaven when your life is over!
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission –
making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
Sing in the Middle of the Storm (Kindle version)
“I’ve had my fair share of storms! 2019 was one of the worst years of my whole life – and I’ve had my share of worst years!
There were three particular times during that year that I was persecuted because of my past. Although it was over ten years, and some of my wrong-doings were over 20 – 30 years previously, still I was persecuted. Such are the times that today forgiveness is forsaken – and hostility is the done-thing of the day.”
Sing in the Middle of the Storm is the fourth in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. The author explains that it’s your attitude that determines your altitude, and if you can sing in the middle of the storm you can rise above it! And no matter how severe the storm, there’s always a rainbow at the end.
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission –
making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
Rescued (Kindle version)
“The story that shook the church and the world couldn’t stomach – but it was also the story that shook the world and the church couldn’t stomach!
It might be hard to accept at first. When I left prison, a changed man, I knew that I didn’t have to prove myself to anyone any longer – the only thing I had to do was find a church!
I needed a church – I needed God more than most, you could argue. But the church didn’t need me! What I didn’t know at the time – I was spared the details in order to protect me – was that the prison chaplain couldn’t find a local church willing to take me – they simply didn’t want me!”
Rescued! is the third in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. The author explains how he was Rescued, Released, Redeemed and Restored – and it all started with Repentance. Shame is a powerful and toxic feeling – but it doesn’t have to affect your life forever.
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission – making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
You’re Going to Be OK (Kindle version)
“Something went to pieces in me, an explosion in my mind and I was in pieces. The inner world that I was struggling so much to keep together, keeping all the plates spinning in a world that was piling on more and more plates, spinning faster and faster, was out of control.
Suddenly, in an instant, I was broken. So, I broke something – I smashed a glass against the wall; and as it smashed to smithereens, so did my sanity – and along with it, my marriage.”
You’re Going To Be OK is the second in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. At a time when all hope seemed lost, the author expecting to end up dead in a ditch, found that although the world didn’t want him – God wanted him in the world!
Whether you’re full of faith, or drowning in doubt and disbelief; whatever you’ve done or will do wrong in life; read more to find out that things really are going to be OK.
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission – making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
Who Do YOU Say I Am? (Kindle version)
85% of people suffer with low self-esteem at times in their life. The NHS says that “we all have times when we lack confidence and don’t feel good about ourselves.
Who Do YOU Say I Am is a booklet that will uplift and encourage. It is inspired by the beautiful number one single by Lauren Daigle – You Say!
It is the first in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. Written by a man whose past made him a leper in today’s society – rejected and ostracised – but who found his only Hope in Christ!
Whether you’re full of faith, or drowning in doubt and disbelief; whatever you’ve done or will do wrong in life; read more to find out who you really are.
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission – making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
Who Do YOU Say I Am? paperback
85% of people suffer with low self-esteem at times in their life. The NHS says that “we all have times when we lack confidence and don’t feel good about ourselves.
Who Do YOU Say I Am is a booklet that will uplift and encourage. It is inspired by the beautiful number one single by Lauren Daigle – You Say!
It is the first in a series of booklets produced by Misfits Ministries – reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers. Written by a man whose past made him a leper in today’s society – rejected and ostracised – but who found his only Hope in Christ!
Whether you’re full of faith, or drowning in doubt and disbelief; whatever you’ve done or will do wrong in life; read more to find out who you really are.
Proceeds from the sale of this booklet go to support Misfits Ministries manifest mercy and mission – making a real difference in people’s lives, and in the community you live, by giving ‘A Little Bit of Hope!’ to those in need, and reaching the lost, the least, the lonely and the lepers in today’s society.
