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Getting the Word out in Lurgan

A team of volunteers from St John’s Lurgan has been ‘getting the Word out’ and through the letterboxes of the local community. Yesterday, they delivered 300 copies of John’s Gospel plus invitations to an online Alpha Course.

Volunteers who are sharing John's Gospel with their neighbours in Lurgan.
Volunteers who are sharing John's Gospel with their neighbours in Lurgan.

The initiative is part of the Diocese of Down and Dromore’s Gospel Giveaway project. Over 60,000 pocket–sized copies, personalised for each parish, have been distributed in Down and Dromore in the past two months.

“We pray that God would speak and reach people through His Word as they read of the good news of Jesus Christ,” said the rector of St John’s, the Revd Raymond Kettyle.

‘As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.’

Isaiah 55:10–11

Contact Tim Burns if you’d like to find out more about the Gospel Giveaway: tim@downanddromore.org

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