ICY-UK

We have made an offer to buy a convent in Bicester, England.  Please be praying with us about the following...

Take some time this week to pray with us about your youth ministry work in the UK.

ICY-UK is our youth ministry initiative in the United Kingdom to train youth workers and establish youth ministries.  We just finished our March conference, held at the beautiful Luckley Holidays in the Cotswolds! Our trainees and staff were joined by a number of visitors, which always are a joy!  Read the full story.

This last week has been a big week for us in the whole convent journey.  We have started approaching the major donors that we have asked people to pray for and it has gone really well so for.  Go

Death Machines–For the last two weeks I have been meeting with a small group of 16-20 something in our home. The plan is to go through the beatitudes with this group…not because they are all Christians but because it is a great moment of seeing Jesus instruct the curious about...

Jane McKinnon is one of our missionary staff working in the United Kingdom.  Read about our team's journey of establishing a missional community amongst the youth of Bicester, England.

As our team in the United Kingdom grows, we are praying for space.  We need office space.  Currently we each individually work out of a spare bedroom in our homes.  We need space to house trainee youth ministers.  This would allow more trainees to minister with us in Bicester where we can more effectively model and observe ministry development.  We need space for our church to gather. The name of our church is The Crowded House and it definitely has become that as we meet in our homes and try to lead children and adults in separate rooms at the same time.

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We had been building up to this for 18 months: young people who were willing to stay after school to talk about God, nodding their heads in agreement as I taught, seeing and sharing about their own bad choices, and believing Jesus was who I proclaimed.  When I gave the invitation to invite Jesus into their lives, four responded, "Absolutely!"