Blog update



Over the past week or so life has been rather filled up with a major initiative I am involved with at the moment which is writing the materials for the ‘More to Life’ project that is being launched in the United States in December this year.

Much of my time over the past few days has been spent writing the ‘Training Kit’, part of More to Life. This training kit includes 6 sessions which are all aimed to help believers get involved in personal evangelism. I am currently in the process of writing the scripts that will be used for the teaching aspect of the training kit. For each of the 6 sessions I will be delivering a 15 minute or so teaching section that will be filmed onto DVD and used by the group taking part in More to Life. Please pray that these scripts are really effective and help people to gain the confidence and inspiration to become involved in sharing their faith with lost friends and neighbours.

As well as writing I have been involved in speaking. This has mainly been local to where I live, which is a good thing because soon I will be travelling away again to the United States for 2 ½ weeks.

Recently I was speaking at a dinner arranged by a local Christian Vision for Men group in Benfleet. It was great to be able to chat with people about my own story and how God is using my ministry and the ministry of Viz-A-Viz in reaching out to people across the world. I had great conversations with people afterwards many of whom were encouraged and inspired to become more involved in evangelism.

Following that I was speaking at our Optimum Training week at St Mark’s in Saffron Walden. It is always a real thrill to be speaking with the people who are doing our year out programme. Our strap line is ‘Let God bring out the best in you’ and it is so exciting to see God doing just that in so many of their lives.

This week I have been taking the second years and looking at how we can communicate the gospel in ways that are relevant and effective, so many of them are just so good at taking hold of truth and communicating it in ways that are creative and effective. This is always inspiration!

Check it Out

As well as writing More to Life I have also been involved in some of the writing and final editing for a new youth resource Viz-A-Viz is producing called ‘Check it Out’. Joy and Andy Clark and Claire Parry of Taste have been doing a huge amount of work on this and I have been working with them to ensure that Check it Out is a really effective resource that will help young people outside of church to discover who Jesus is and how they can become his followers. This is now in the final throes of production and we are really excited to think that very soon this will be available for churches to use in helping people to discover Jesus.


Love London

In addition to the writing and speaking I have also begun discussions with Premier Christian Media regarding Viz-A-Viz and my involvement in an Evangelistic initiative called ‘Premier Love London’. It is likely that we will be very involved in this and I personally will be delivering a weekly radio broadcast and other broadcasts called Love London which will be looking at ways that churches are making an impact in their local community and helping people to come to know Jesus. This provides a great opportunity for us to work very significantly in London over the next couple of years and to help churches to reach out in new creative ways.


As you can see life has been rather busy dominated quite a lot by writing and some by speaking. In the coming weeks I have critical deadlines to reach with regard to writing More to Life before travelling to the United States later in May to speak at conferences and events in Virginia, to film and meet with people at LifeWay in Nashville and then to have some significant meetings in New York State regarding how More to Life may possibly become a national initiative for evangelism in the United States.

Will update soon.

Dennis