Hello Folks
May I first say, that I do hope this Month's JANUARY 2010 Newsletter finds you all well in this brand new decade. May you all have a happy and blessed New Year.
WHAT'S NEW FOR WHISPERINGWORD IN 2010?
1) MORE VARIETY OF DEVOTIONAL EMAILS-
Well, we are pleased to announce the arrival of a Performance Poem for the day!
You can of course see this at http://www.performancepoets.com/ - I hope you enjoy it. This adds to our daily offering of Morning and Evening Devotions. We shall of course only be sending out only one email a day, but now these daily emails shall be selected from the four functioning websites listed below.
http://www.wakeup.ws/
http://www.nightwhispers.ws/
http://www.performingpoets.com/
http://www.daretolisten.com/
In addition to this, some articles and commentary will also be emailed out, so in short, this will certainly add some variety to the inspiring and provocative readings WhisperingWord continues to provide.
2) MORE PREACHING OPPORTUNITIES
Men's meetings are beginning to open up for me a little more on Saturday mornings and I am looking forward to travelling around the UK and challenging the men in the church to change and grow. You can check out these dates on the event calendar at http://www.whisperingword.com/
In addition to this I have a couple of trips back to the United States this year, one of which will be a preaching trip, and also an open invitation to Pakistan. As God provides the energy, resources and time, I will keep you informed of what is happening and when.
3) MORE OF SORTED MAGAZINE AND WRITING PROJECTS
I am continuing my very early morning vigil of getting up and writing before I start the day at my proper job, and am thrilled to be continuing to write for SORTED MEN'S MAGAZINE http://www.sorted-magazine.com/single.htm?ipg=9619
Actually this is a real privilege as it challenges me to rightly present the raw Bible for real people. So far, the reception as been MOST encouraging. Other writing projects continue apace, but my adult ADD gets the better of me sometimes! If only I could focus more! If only I had more energy and time!
WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING WITH US IN 2009?
THE SPRING
I have been Pastoring at The Spring now for some 18 months now. see http://www.thespring.org.uk/ Being a church re-start it is still very, very busy with that challenging mixture of continued excitement and disappointment all mixed up together! There is still just not enough hours in the day! Bidget is working part time for a local charity whilst continuing to investigate the possibility of getting a crisis pregnancy center up and running in the area. We hope great strides will be made toward this end in the coming year.This is going to be a massive job, but there is a new charity we are hooking up with called the twobytwo trust, so who knows what might happen! In any event, do please pray for her for at the moment there continues to be no buy in from any other Christians in the area.
SORTED MAGAZINE
Like I say, I still am privileged write for the best Christian men's magazine in the country - SORTED - My job is to write a 4 page centre spread pull out on each book of the Bible. I am working with Andy Ashdown who does the design on this, I provide the content and he makes it look BRILLIANT! Check it out at Here are some associated links you might find interesting
http://www.sorted-magazine.com/single.htm?ipg=8555
http://www.sorted-magazine.com/single.htm?ipg=7492
http://www.andyashdowndesign.co.uk/news/item.htm?pid=2190
http://www.andyashdowndesign.co.uk/news/item.htm?pid=2360
http://www.andyashdowndesign.co.uk/news/item.htm?pid=2449
so far we have done, GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, DEUTERONOMY, JOSHUA, JUDGES AND I AM WORKING ON RUTH.Only ten years and 59 more books to go!
EXHIBITIONS
I went to three big exhibitions- CRE- Detling and The Churches Big Day Out. They were expensive, and I am not sure one visit is enough to establish presence. I Don't know if I am going to be doing this in 2010?
NEW WEBSITE
The new WhisperingWord website http://www.whisperingword.com/
has been up and running well, but the bog job is to try and drive traffic toward it.
THE DAILY DEVOTIONSI continued to get these out each morning via three electronic ways. Those being;
1) Direct Emails
2) The WhisperingWord Website - http://www.whisperingword.com/
3) The Blog sites - which are now available at
http://www.wakeup.ws/
&
http://www.nightwhispers.ws/
In addition to that another social / spiritual commentary site has been opened up called
http://www.daretolisten.ws/
TEACHING EVNGELIST - MEDIA PLAYER
Is still on the runway, but Chris Heasman who works for The Spring and also continues to do an absolutely sterling job on some WhisperingWord intro's and outro's has made a trip to Media Site well worth the visit.
GIFTS & THANKS
Again, it is your gifts that have made the ministry of WhisperingWord possible and we thank you for it, so please keep em coming in! If you wish to make a donation to the work of WhisperingWord, even small one, then please contact me at donations@whisperingword and we will provide you with all necessary information.
OTHER STUFFI finally had my operation on my Abdominal muscles to get them sen together. At the moment, it has not been a success, but then again I am an impatient man and might just need to wait 3-6 months for it all to settle down. We shall see, but meanwhile I have a magnificent scar and my abdominal area looks like a map of the Grampians.
speak@whisperingword.com check out my diary at http://whisperingword.com/Event.aspx
OK, I have written too much for now, and in God's will will write much more in the coming year. So until then -
My kind regards to you all and do please keep praying for us
Contact me at rober@whisperingword.com
now, may God's richest blessing be upon you all
