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14 people responded for salvation yesterday at City Gates Church Bournemouth yesterday and there were 4 people who testified to an immediate healing.

In the first service, a guy called Tony came up to tell us that he’d been run over in a road traffic accident 4 months ago, and ever since then had not been able to squeeze his broken finger without pain. Now the pain had gone and he was very excited about it. I then preached on John 4 and the woman at the well in Sychar. Two people responded for salvation.

In the second service, which was full, (twice as well attended as the 9.30am service) there were three people healed in the prayer time before the sermon. First of all Reuben, from Portugal who was healed on a hamstring injury, then Phil, who had had pain in his foot for years as a result of gout, he said the pain had all gone, and then Mooki, who had damaged her leg playing women’s rugby – pain gone.

I then did the John 4 evangelistic preach again and this time 12 people responded for salvation, including two of those who were healed an hour previously!

City Gates Church are in the process of a massive building project, moving to a completely new site, where they’ll have a brand new purpose built venue, as part of a huge student accommodation re-development of the old B&Q warehouse site. I stayed for the weekend with the guy who’s overseeing the project Roland Gilbert, who is also, by co-incidence project managing City Church, Canterbury’s new building.

So just to report about the other aspects of my weekend . . . I was speaking at an Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union outreach event on Friday 21st in the centre of Oxford, which seemed to go really well. The venue was totally full and I had two good chats with non-Christian students afterwards. I then drove to Bournemouth where on Saturday 22nd we hosted our third “Front Edge” Conference in the Wessex region. I spoke on healing for the first time ever at Front Edge and did a seminar on handling the objection “When you’re dead, you’re dead!” Lex Loizides from Cape Town did two outstanding sessions on “Growing in faith and wisdom”.

After the Sunday morning repeat services in Bournemouth, I drove across to Hedge End, Southampton, where I went to the home of Martyn Dunsford, leader of King’s Community Church, and had a two hour meeting with Lex where we planned future Front Edge events.

The final part of the weekend was driving back to Bournemouth with Lex where we had our Front Edge feedback meeting, an event that is somewhat similar to a General Election edition of Newsnight, where various constituencies phone in their results, and sometimes we have live reporters. There were a total of 13 churches who hosted healing guest services simultaneously in the region. When I left a total of 62 first-time commitments had been declared, and many excellent healings. So there was much rejoicing on the M3 all the way home!

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