Hey there all, in 20 days time I will start my 20 hour, 3 flight journey to Utah for my 4th mission trip there. Please be praying for me that this is a great trip, with lots of chances to witness to people, and be encouraged and equipped for my ministry efforts here in the UK.

When I am there I will be seeking to do regular updates on this blog, and on my twitter feed. Please subscribe and you will be kept as up to date as possible with all that’s going on.

When I am there I will be joining quite a few other Christians witnessing at the Manti Miracle Pageant. Each night 14000 LDS people will be greeted by around 100-150 Christians as they walk to their seats. Why do we do this? Please see the video above. If you are a Christian in the US or anywhere in the world, please consider coming along to this.  And please be praying, this is definitely going to be the most challenging and ministry focused part of my trip.

Thanks for reading.

Today is a special day. As well as being Good-Friday (which is of course much more significant) It is now just two months until I leave for my 4th Mission trip to Utah. From the 18th to the 30th of June I will be leaving jolly old England and coming to Utah in the hope of having a great time witnessing to Mormons, hanging out with Christians, and maybe eating a little American food.

After my initial day off resting a bit from a 20 hour 3 flight journey I will be spending a few days working with Russ East with our parent ministry Utah Partnerships for Christ. This ministry has mission teams come from all over the USA and individuals like myself from all over the world to do mission trips to Utah. He equips, houses,  and sends out teams to go to different parts of Utah, and witness to the locals. I will be an intern with UPFC and helping out with these teams. Here is a picture with the last team I worked with from California in 2012.

After that I will drive down 3 hours to Manti, and be involved with each day of the witnessing at the Manti Miracle Pageant week 2. This is an amazing opportunity to speak to some of the up to 14000 Mormons making their way to their seats each night, and also to hang out with Christians that all year around are active in this ministry. This is a great encouragement.

I know that for Mormons there can be quite a stigma attached to what I am doing. Rest assured that this is not going to be my approach!

Here is a conversation I had with some Mormons at Manti in 2012 and this very much mirrors what I will be hoping for this time around.

(Audio of above with better sound quality.)

I appreciate for many this will come as little conciliation, however I am doing this out of a genuine belief that God has called me to bring the Biblical true gospel to the Mormon people. It’s just good maths to go to a place where there is lots of Mormons to do this.  I by no means have any dislike for Mormons, nor any past hurts that lead me to doing this.

That said my wife Vicky and I are genuinely hoping and praying that God might bring us to Utah on a permanent basis. We are not sure how this will look yet, but those supportive of what we are doing, please join us in prayer for that.

I was given around £300 towards this trip spread over a number of people. I am massively grateful to God and those that gave this money. This support gave me a rise in faith that this trip could go ahead at all. We are already saving for our Utah 2015 trip where hopefully my wife Vicky will come as well. Please consider financially supporting our ministry as that massively helps with trips like this and the day to day costs of what we do.

But mostly please pray for me in the next couple of months. That God helps me prepare for my time there, and that I have some fantastic Jesus centred discussions with the LDS people that I speak too. Going to Utah is a massive high point for me in this ministry, and I will be keeping you well up to date with what goes on when I am there.

More updates on this to come.

Hey there all. As many who have been reading this blog for a while will know, I have been to Utah on mission trips for 3 years running between 2010 and 2012. These have been seriously some of the best times of my life. I have been on a daily basis actively involved in reaching out to LDS people as well as meeting, training and connecting with various Christians from Utah and other parts of the USA. My main contact is Russ East from Utah Partnerships for Christ.

Russ runs a ministry hosting mission trips from all over America and the world seeking to reach out to the residents of Utah. On every visit I have stayed and worked with Russ, being involved with outreach at Temple Square in Salt Lake City and also the Manti Miracle Pageant, where each night 14,000 Mormons come and watch a re-enactment of their theology and believed history, here is a discussion I had there.

As well as reaching out to Mormons on my last trip I was also involved with training and equipping Christians. Here I am giving some guys a tour of temple square.

During these visits I have also been on Heart of the Matter with Shawn Mccraney twice, here is one of my appearances at the end of this video.

So what is my point in all this? Well I want to go back to Utah, every year from 2014 onwards. In fact my wife Vicky and I are in genuine hope and prayer that one day in the next 5 years or so we want to move to and live in Utah. However these trips are expensive and so this post is an unashamed request, that you would consider supporting me to go to Utah on a mission trip in 2014.

For this trip I plan to:

• Be very active in outreach to LDS people in Utah, particularly at the Manti Miracle Pageant.
• Make contact with local Christian Churches in Utah, seeking to build relationships and raise support for a permanent Utah move.
• Build relationships with Key Christians in Utah already active in evangelism to LDS people.
• Report back to you on what is going on and keeping you up to date in all that you are supporting me to do over there.

This is your chance to have an active impact on LDS people not only in the UK but around the world. Please prayerfully consider supporting me for this trip. Anything you contribute however big or small with be massively significant in helping me to make this trip. I estimate I need to raise around £1000 to go for around two weeks. You can contribute by emailing me on [email protected] for info, You can also give via paypal by clicking here. Or by clicking the paypal button below.

UPDATE: God has so far provided around £270 towards this, this is a massive blessing and really appreciated, with some financial juggling of our own we have now bought tickets for me to go, I am very excited about this. If you would still like to contribute towards this trip for costs when over there, that would be very appreciated.

Thank you for reading, more updates on this to follow.