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PIONEERING IN CORNWALL 1978
For two years every time I got to my knees to seek the Lord I was overwhelmed with a burden to pray for Wales and Cornwall. So I did! I interceded with God to send preachers to these two parts of the UK. "Please Lord; send labourers to Wales and Cornwall!" It became a burning passion in my heart and I cried to Him with many tears.
Our church was on Grove Street in those days and we had built a crèche in the back corner of the church, which doubled up as a prayer room. We were holding a prayer meeting one morning and I began to pray once more that God would send labourers to Cornwall. I was suddenly brought to a sudden halt by the voice of God speaking to my mind. I clearly heard Him say, "You go!" It shocked me! I had not bargained for this! At no point had it entered my mind that I should go to Cornwall. I left the prayer room and walked up to the vestry, closing the door behind me and standing with my back to it. I was weeping and my heart was pounding. "Lord," I said, "I didn't mean me! I meant perhaps …." I proceeded to suggest to the Lord some very capable candidates who could do the job much better than me and succeeded in convincing myself that my imagination was playing tricks with me. I recovered my composure and returned to the prayer meeting.
Several days later I was driving up the High Street when I was overwhelmed with a compulsion to find a place alone to pray. I obediently turned my car around and returned home. As my knees touched the floor in my little study I found myself again crying out to God to send labourers to Cornwall. Instantly it was there again! "You go!" This time I remained calm and quietly waited. Into my mind came a word which sounded like Blodwyn, but eventually settled as Bodmin. I wondered if there was a place somewhere called Bodmin. I exited my study and started down the stairs, calling out to Pam, "Pam, is there a place somewhere called Bodmin?" "Yes," she called back, "I think it's in Cornwall!"
I visited Bodmin with my friend Wesley Richards and we booked the town hall for some evangelistic services in September.
Pam and I went and lived in Bodmin for three months following the crusade and at the time of our return to Mansfield Woodhouse fifty people
were meeting in their own building and we had found a pastor to shepherd the new church. The church is still in existence today!
