On Thursday 20th March we are holding a missions evening for anybody interested in taking part in a mission trip in India, Uganda or the UK.

The meeting will take place in our office in Blackwood and will start at 19:00 and finish at 21:00. It will be a time for you to hear about the mission trips that are taking place this year short term. There will also be a time for you to ask questions and for us to find out a little bit more about you.

The Lord’s church is situated in the midst of the IT [information technology] corridor in Kallukttai, Perungudi, Madras, India. Though in the midst of such sophistication, this area is deprived of basic facilities like electricity and running water. Every evening this place submerges in to darkness while the power station is next door. When you walk through the main street above which the high tension wires pass through from the power station, you can hear the electricity pass through.

As the humidity fades in to the evening and the Mosquitoes come up to have their feed, that’s when the education centre starts at Pallavan Nagar.

Mosquitoes as big as a house fly invite the children to the education centre in the evening. Moses & Vinoth who are the teachers take care of the young lads. Adhilakshmi and Barani take care of the girls.

Join us the 11th - 13th October at this years Impact the Nation Conference.

Impact the Nation is the annual conference of Prayer in Action, a ministry of An Open Door into Your Heart.  Each year we showcase some of the most impacting ministry from around the UK and beyond.

We work closely with several national and internal ministries and of course a large number of local churches to work together on the conference. 

After a very successful first conference in 2006, we are focusing more on how to achieve social transformation this year.  We’ve also partnered this year with Gweini (The Christian Voluntary Sector Charity) and also, Alpha’s Prayer department and finally Interprayer, an international ministry specialising in transformation.

So come along and register for the next conference now, Dates are 11th - 13th Oct. 2007.   You can save 20% if you book online.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

Using our last reserves in India we have decided to start the building process.  We have bought land some months back to serve around 20 hindu villages with vocational projects and a school. 

There is a small building that has been constructed as a place where the cement mixing and brick laying can be organised, in the intense het, over 40 degrees some days.

The school once built will literally serve thousands of children in an around the surrounding area, we have intentionally chosen an area where we believe the majority of people haven't yet heard the Gospel clearly.  So this is a great opportunity, we just need your help in building.

The missions season is well and truly underway! There have been 5 trips to Uganda already this year with a number of other trips planned throughout for the rest of 2010.

Here is a photo from a recent missions trip (led by Anna Ozemoya) where the team engaged with An Open Door children in a very creative and enjoyable art project. As you can see some of the artwork produced by the children (guided by Anna) is outstanding.

Prayer Magazine issue 11 is out now. In the July to September issue of Prayer Magazine:

∞ Global Day of Prayer All the news from Upton Park
∞ Trumpet Call VI report Thousands envisioned as the Trumpet sounds
∞ Big drive for Hope 08 Major awareness campain launched
∞ Prayer gatherings Jane Holloway looks at the future of these events
∞ Prayer Works The Notts Prayer Network that is seeing major growth
∞ Suzette Hattingh Why worship is prayer
∞ Rising profile of prayer Christian leaders tell us why the spotlight is on prayer
∞ Postcode prayer John Simons on his UK tour
∞ What prayer means to... Head of Faithworks Malcolm Duncan
∞ A life given over... Rees Howells
∞ Plus: News, Reviews, Youth Zone, ABC of Prayer and plenty more.

Prayer Magazine issue 12 is out now. In the July to September issue of Prayer Magazine:

∞ Restored - Feature on prayer that bring marriage restoration
∞ Pete Greig - we talk to the founder of 24-7
∞ Our City stands United, prayer at Man Utd. and Man City.
∞ Hope 08 Update
∞ 'The Call' to save lives.  Young people in America join together in Prayer
∞ London is turning to God
∞ We plow the fields, Angus Buchan prays for a literal harvest
∞ For crying out loud! - how to keep church prayer meetings alive
∞ RT Kendall - Question and Answer Sessions
∞ True prayer is a lifestyle - article by Ken Gott
∞ What prayer means to... John O'Brien, J2 Prayer with Children
∞ A life given over... Jonathan Edwards
∞ Plus: News, Reviews, Youth Zone, ABC of Prayer and plenty more.

Our team has experienced some amazing times during the summer outreach in India which saw around 750 children taking part.

Week-long events were carried out at three of our education centres and three villages we had never visited before. The settings were sometimes unconventional. The first outreach was held in a remote village with no churches but some ground under a tree with cows grazing alongside did us just fine! It certainly didn’t stop the 40 children from several villages who made the effort to come along. Another event took place in a fishing village where we had been invited by the head of the village - the only Christian in a community of more than 200 families.

A team of five (Matthew Pardoe, Sara Barnett, Nancy Spencer, Jessica Sepulveda & Natasha Palmer) are in Uganda at the moment, some for two weeks and some for three weeks, doing outreach and schools work as well as working with the Children in our Bulange Home. 

We've had a missions team in Uganda for the last two weeks.  The final part of the trip the team has been in Bombo just North of Kampala with Pastor Sam.

Paul our base leader from India flies into the UK on Wednesday, with his wife Deborah and Zaphi, his little girl.

Bethan our Ugandan Country Director has fallen in love with and married Horace our Ugandan home administrator.  

During a recent trip to the UK it was wonderful to see the love they have for each other which has grown over the last few years in Uganda. 

We're pleased to announce we will be at the next Trumpet Call event in the NEC.

Prayer in Action, the prayer aspect of our ministry has been presented at Trumpet Call for the last two years, promoting Prayer Magazine.  We'll be at the event again, Saturday 19th May 2007 at the NEC.

Click this link for more information and to book tickets for the event.

We are currently looking for volunteer schools workers that can help deliver drama based programmes.  Each volunteer would commit to a set day or period of time per week.

The programme delivered to schools is a lively and drama based often based on the truth of a Biblical Story, which encourages the children be good, do what they can to help, and always try their best.

Paul Gnanarajan, An Open Door into your Heart's India Country Director is in the UK for a few weeks, catching up with what is going on this side of the world and speaking in several churches promoting the work of An Open Door.

This picture was taken during the first team trip to India in November 2004 and shortly before the Tusnami hit many of the area's along the coast line near to where we had started working.

Paul coordinated our relief effort and assisted thousands of Hindu people in the aftermarth of the Tsunami.  He has some incredible stories of how God has used this aweful disaster to build bridges of trust between An Open Door into your Heart and many Hindu villages. 

To find out where Paul is speaking, please ring the the office on 01685 875427

It's great to announce that recently Prayer Magazine has now become a publication of An Open Door into your Heart.  This ground breaking magazine which was launched in October 2004, is a great resource for Churches, Prayer Groups and Individuals alike.  Carrying inspiring features, testimonies, teaching articles and reports of prayer intiatives around Britain and Ireland.  Published in conjunction with New Life Publishing we hope that Prayer Magazine will become one of the most read Christian magazines around the Nation.  So whether your fifteen or fifty, if you want to deepen you prayer life, order Prayer Magazine today.

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