Two Inspirational Evangelists

This week we featured two interviews with two inspirational evangelists.

First was Dean Gavaris, the founder and executive director of Gateway Pregnancy Centres. His Christ-centred approach to crisis pregnancy counselling was paradigm-shifting. He puts evangelism at the heart of his ministry and has seen thousands of babies saved and thousands of professions of faith. Can you be 100% pro-life and 100% pro-evangelism? Let Dean show you the way!

If you prefer to listen, here’s the podcast:

Our second inspiring evangelist was the internationally best-selling author and speaker Becky Pippert. Having written one of the great books on personal evangelism, Out Of The Saltshaker, Becky has just released Stay Salt: The world has changed, our message must not. Here she talks about all that she’s learnt in half a century of compelling Christian witness. You will be informed and inspired by this 40 minutes. Listen, pray, and share the goodness of what you learn here:

This happened to be the 300th episode of the Speak Life podcast. Can you believe it! 300!

The Lord Has Been Good To Us!

Hitting the 300 mark for podcasts has been a wonderful reminder to us of all that God has enabled us to do. Through podcasts, radio, videos, TV, books, courses, tracts and online campaigns — through face to face proclamation in churches, schools, universities and the like — we have sought to make Christ known and equip the church for its missionary task. If you are able to support us in this vital outreach, we would be so grateful. One-off gifts are wonderful but monthly commitments help even more. Could you or your church prayerfully consider partnering with us at this time. We are not taking a backwards step during this crisis and we’d love to step forward with you! Please go to speaklife.org.uk/give.

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Every blessing in Jesus,

Glen Scrivener and the Speak Life Team.

At Easter I had the huge privilege of preaching John 20:1-18 — Mary’s encounter with Christ. Even as Mary showed up at Easter, Easter had not yet shown up in Mary. She had to be driven to the end of herself, to face the facts, and then—wonderfully—to hear her name. Watch my sermon for St Andrew’s the Great, Cambridge.

Authored to Die

This Easter we also released a new spoken word by Ben Holmes, one of our 6 interns. “Authored to Die” is a powerful meditation on Isaiah 53:

Easter Means Hope

Print and place in your window

We continued to push our Easter outreach, Easter Means Hope, which was taken up on social media, on our new website, through videos, and in countless front windows across the nation and across the world. So far we have sent 72 “Love Story”s to interested enquirers and pray on for the fruit.

Adjusting to the New Normal

Following the success of our evangelistic webinars this week (Adjusting to the New Normal) — gaining 10,000 views on Facebook — we have now released them on YouTube. We hope they become even more shareable in this format. Please do share with friends (see the whole playlist here):

Life According to Jesus

Very soon we will run Life According To Jesus — when we have in place just the right hosts, publicity and technology.

Following the 321 outline, we will explore Jesus’ vision of God, the world and you. We would love to see you there for these sessions and do please be praying for this outreach and considering who to invite. Find us here.

Podcasts Released This Week

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Lost and Found on Easter Morning — A Sermon on John 20:1-18

Home Schooling — The Why and the How (with Brooke Newman and Garry Williams)

When the World is Locking Down, We are Reaching Out

As you can see Speak Life is not slowing down at this time, we’re just getting started. If you are able to support us in this vital outreach, we would be so grateful. One-off gifts are wonderful but monthly commitments help even more. Could you prayerfully consider partnering with us at this time. We are not taking a backwards step during this crisis and we’d love to step forward with you! Please go to speaklife.org.uk/give.

And sign up to get these updates in your email:

Every blessing in Jesus,

Glen Scrivener and the Speak Life Team.

Print and place in your window

All across the UK people are putting rainbows in their windows. It’s an ancient beacon of hope — right back to Genesis. After the storm, the sun shines out the clearer. It seems like millions in lockdown are clutching at this kind of hope. But it’s a vague hope with nothing much to ground it.

Yet this week is Easter. And in the death and resurrection of Jesus we have real grounds for hope. After the greatest ever storm — the judgement of the cross — Christ sailed through to the far shore, beyond death and hell. And he says “Because I live, you also will live.”

That’s why we’ve started a movement: Easter Means Hope

We have produced Easter Rainbows (see above) to be placed in your windows as a sign to your neighbourhood of where true hope lies.

Facebook Cover

You can also use the Easter Rainbow as a Facebook Cover, pointing your virtual neighbours to the same website.

On EasterMeansHope.com your friends and neighbours will find a website with videos to watch and links to churches and courses where they can further explore Easter hope. Please do spread the word!

Another Bumper Crop

We’ve also produced another bumper crop of videos for you — collected together at the bottom of this email. We have:

• interviews with doctors on the frontline of the fight against Coronavirus;
• interviews with homeschoolers preparing us for the new normal;
• webinars dealing with subject like anxiety and prayer;
• more tutorials helping churches adjust to moving online; and
• our latest Easter poem!

We are really spoiling you!

Reaching Out All The More!

Following the success of our evangelistic webinars this week (Adjusting to the New Normal), we are running three more webinars next week. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm (UK time) we will run Life According To Jesus.

Following the 321 outline, we will explore Jesus’ vision of God, the world and you. We would love to see you there for these sessions and do please be praying for this outreach and inviting your friends. Find us here.

As you can see Speak Life is not slowing down at this time, we’re just getting started. If you are able to support us in this vital outreach, we would be so grateful. One-off gifts are wonderful but monthly commitments help even more. Could you prayerfully consider partnering with us at this time. We are not taking a backwards step during this crisis and we’d love to step forward with you! Please go to speaklife.org.uk/give.

And sign up to get these updates in your email:

Every blessing in Jesus,

Glen Scrivener and the Speak Life Team.

PODCASTS

Fighting Coronabrain (with Emma Scrivener)

Faith On The Frontlines (with Drs Ben Chang and Sarah Foot)

VIDEOS