We decided to start preaching every Sunday on the Royal mile between church services. Sunday was our fith time we went out. The first time we plonked our step ladder in Hunters square amidst a group of roudy teenages. A group of them followed us back to church and two made commitments, the next week we saw some more of the group of kids and one of the guys Jay spoke to came back to church with us and made a comitment to Jesus. Each week we go back people recognise us and more people are starting to speak to us and open up. One lady was in tears as I spoke to but was not interested in accepting Jesus as her saviour as she saw the Bible as a fairy tale. Another girl had just split up with her husband but became increasingly more angry with us and stormed off. the people who promote the ghost tours are quite annoyed with us. The one guy will not speak to us or look at us. He was very friendly until he saw us preaching. Another one tried to get me to get down from my stepladder and said it was his "spot" and he would call the police if we didn't move.
Tomorrow is Halloween and we are taking a group of 7 people dressed in white and holding up placards asking questions like "Who is the Lord of Life?" and handing out Appointment with death tracts. We are linking up with Paul from Edinburgh City Mission to pray before hand....I am wearing my wedding cape ....

Last weekend we went to Edinburgh to talk about our show (Mary and the Stripper) and also to preach in the street on the Saturday. I was amazed at the response we got. We were standing next to Wellingston Statue. It was really noisy with traffic, as well as windy. The people responded almost immediately when Jay got up and preached. Many people were angry with us, and many Christians stoped to encourage us. We also had a lot of good hecklers and genuine questions. One guy was standing really close to Jay for about half an hour. Then he got down on his knees. Jay eventually got down and spoke to him and prayed with him.He said he was really desperate for God, and Jay helped him in a prayer of repentance. When I got up to preach I was also asked many questions. By Christians who innitially thought I was part of the demonstration against Blair and Bush behind me, as well as by this man who showed me his green tongue from the marujuana he was eating. At first he was very synical, but then after qwe chatted for a while, he started to cry, and then went and brought me a rose, brecause he said I made him think. Then on the Monday we went to the Kingston Green Fair, and had a table in the healing section. I spoke to a lot of people with colourful ideas on who God is! I gave a good person tract to on man. He said he would go away and read it and then tell me what he thinks. Well about an hour later, the same man came to me also with tears in his eyes, and told me he wasn't good. He said that after reading the tract, he went to another Christian tent that was there and they prayed with him, and that he was going home to make right with God. He left clutching the tract! Then yesturday (Sat 3red) we we joined forces with an outreach that our church had organised. While I was preachin the first time a harri Krishna cam and asked me some really intense questions about reincarnation, saying that we are eternal and not immoratal and he couldn't believe that we only had one life.Then when I was in the que for the toilet a wgile after that, he was standing behind me and we wwre able to continue the conversation!
I am really excited what God has been doing in the streets lately. I really have faith to see people saved now. I am still waiting for the day when He comes like he did at pPentecost and we see people falling down on their knees and the Holy Spirit convict people of their sins. Wher people are healed and God is worshipped and people are asking what must I do to be saved!

" The fool has said in his heart, there is no God." Psalm 14:1
I used this scripture along with what God thinks about sinners in Romans 3:10-18 as an introduction for my preach today in Kingston and yesturday in Hounslow. It is interesting how the wealthier middle class people find it easier so throw insults and abuse at what God has to say, especially about how corrupt they are and how vile their deeds are in Gods eyes.(said in love off course)
Sometimes when people blatantly mock God I find that my preaching becomes a little more intense. We handed out a lot of tracts today. Seth (my 5 year old) sorted them out in piles and people were helping themselves to them, and Timon (my 7 year old, stood and handed them out to passers by. This is very touching to see as a parent and I pray that our times on the street will greatly impact my children. It is not always easy taking children with (my youngest son, Dillon , is only 2 years old.) I do however feel a really special bond that develps when they come with us. It is only by God's grace that we are parents and it is a wonderful thing to go out on the streets and minister together as a family. So the fool has said in his heart there is no God. I didn't say it, God did. With all one's wealth and intellectualism and status and whatever else people chose to invest their energies into, it is all meaningless. Without a holy fear of the Lord, people go about their lives as if everything is ok. It is not ok, and since the fall of man, it has never been ok. Lots of people are really curious to hear what we have to say, and I am just praying for the day when God comes and moves in mighty power. Salvation is of the Lord , only he can save, only He can heal. Today Kim and I ended with a duet. We took turns quoting scriptures and preaching on healing, and asking anyone who needs healing to come foward so that we could pray for them. No one came, but we were sure stirred up.

"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned;he has crossed over from death to life."John 5:24
One has to wonder what people think as they hear these words being spoken on Kingston high street. Words like eternal life don't really have much meaning to people who don't realise that they are dead in the first place. It would almost be easier if it were eternal death they would be facing after their bodies die,as opposed to eternal punishment and condemnation. Yet faith and salvation is of the Lord. We speak the words and the Holy Spirit brings the people. We speak the words and the Holy Spirit convicts the people . We speak the words and the Holy Spirit draws them to himself. Not us, Him. He is the one. I want to see real converts, born of God, and not the will of man, born of the spirit, not born of me. What a priveledge we have in being instrumental in the process of seing people being brought over from death to life.It is sad to see so many people so hostile to their Creator. It is painful to see hopelessness in the eyes of so many. yet so exciting to wait upon the Sovereign Lord to come, to save , to set free, to heal, to bring life and light and hope.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it" John 1:1-3

John is such a wonderful book to preach from. It dispells all the myths and false conceptions about who Jesus is. He was there in the beginning. In him we find life and light. This is so awesome. It is so to the point, yet people chose to ignore it. They chose to live in darkness. why? Well it goes on to say that the darkness has not understood it. People don't understand the true weightiness of their sin. They think of God as the "Good Lord" who is harmless, and not as the God who describes himself as a consuming fire, so holy that no sin can stand in his presence. This is terrifying. People think that they can make a God to suit themselves, to cater for their lifestyles. In God' s eyes this is idolatry and the Bible says that no idolator will enter the Kingdom of heaven . People are living in the valley of the shadow of death in utter darkness, and blinded by their own ignorance about who their creator really is. Hard hearts turned away from the living God, consciences seered and barricaded by lives caught up in everything but him. How will they know if we don't tell them . Reason with them. Talk to them . Shine, for them .