October 2025

Dear Family and Friends

Over the past few weeks, we have felt a sharp shift in the weather and the amazing weather we had over the Summer (which is unusual!) has turned quickly into Autumn temperatures.  The leaves have started changing and warmer clothes and jackets have come out of hiding.  Autumn is our Spring in many ways here in the UK and Europe.  It’s when we see a new season of small groups, courses and school and university terms starting up which means growth for us!  New life springs up in all areas of our church and ministries which is exciting! 

I’ve been getting reports from our campuses all across Europe about outreaches that have been happening on their university campuses inviting students to events as they begin to build relationships and share Jesus with new incoming students. Here in London our churches did outreaches at Freshers (Freshman) Days on 3 different campuses – Queen Mary University, Kingston University and Imperial College.

Last week I returned from leading a Campus Mission to our Every Nation Church in Dublin, Ireland.  Our small team consisted of people from our London, Dublin and Boston (USA) churches.  This mission was in many ways ground-breaking because they had not been actively on the campuses for many years, so we were discovering the spiritual and cultural atmosphere as we went through the week.  We were able to have well over 100 attempts at conversations with students in 5 days on 3 campuses trying to engage with them about life on campus as well as faith.

With every good conversation, we would invite them to our nations game night at the end of the mission.  As I said, this mission was ground-breaking, and the ground was HARD.  On 2 of the campuses, we found that interest in faith was very low so engaging in conversations that went deep was very difficult.  On another campus with predominantly international students who were Muslim, Hindu and Buddhists, we found people more open to speak about faith and who were actually interested in wanting community, as they were new to the country and already finding it difficult.  At our games evening, we weren’t sure if anyone would come but praise God, we ended up having 10 guests with 7 of them not being Christian!  We had a great evening of fun, and our hope is that many of the students we engaged with will get curious about the Dublin ENC group as they continue to have more events to build relationships with them.  One of them has already visited on a Sunday!

A quick update on my mum – she will be getting a pacemaker this month on the 16^th of October so we are trusting she will feel so much better afterwards.  Your generosity on my last visit is allowing me to go back for Thanksgiving for a week so thank you so much.  Thank you for continuing to pray for her memory. Me being able to spend time with her is a huge blessing.

Could I also ask you to keep my niece Trinity in prayer?  She was in a serious car accident this past weekend and sustained a broken back, ribs, collapsed lung, tissue damage to her ankle and severe gashes in her legs as well as other cuts throughout her body.  She is truly a miracle and can move all limbs!  Please pray for complete healing.

Thank you again for all your prayers and support!  You are a part of everything God is doing in and through me!

Blessings,

Traci