Nov 1st Prayer with Steve. Translating. Church meeting went well except I was told I did not sound very enthusiastic about my work. Perhaps because I have has no offer of a full time job. People say calling adults by forenames if fine. We dissent.
2nd Cycled to Ken Okeke, Streatham, to tell of my need for Nigerian contacts.
3rd Roger Malstead OM round to discus literature needs in Nigeria.
4th Took Jonathan to GOS hospital/ EEG OK. Eyes do not need glasses. Physio prescribed exercises. Visited National Gallery, Trafalgar Square and the Thames. Edward Law to dinner.
5th Ian Sproule visited. Fireworks at 48 with that family.
6th With boys to Brentford 2 Bradford 2. Rubbish game. Terrible crowd obscenities. At Clowneys discussed plans fo evening services.
7th Led morning service and took evening study. Lunch at tea in Finchley with Oldfields RSMT.
8th Translating and catching up on a week with no Bible reading.
9th Still down. Sermon prep and translating.
10th David Drew here en route from USA to Nigeria. Spoke at Michael Flanders centre. Visited mosque. Christchurch day David is fine but Jonathan below par.
11th Translating. Hassans hospitable. They say Hausa women are the most fortunate. Confined in purdah they alone are the women who do not have to farm. Good curry at Abrahams.
12th Translating. Visited John H curate at St James. John Cox visited. He is a JP.
13th Curry at Cradocks.
14th Preached in the morning. Taken to M Hassan while children at Crusaders. Commission by presbytery so nor I am an IPC elder.
15th Translating. Only three at prayer meeting.
16th Translating. led Bible study.
17th Translating. Good conversation with a Yoruba alhaji at the mosque.
18th Translating. Deb's second birthday. All Larsons flew first class to LA thanks to their travel agent aunt.
19th Translating. Sermon prep. John Fulton wants me to write around about a ministers fraternal. Friends round for Jonathan's twelfth birthday super.
20th Dave Bickel visited overnight. Family to Museum of Mankind, Trafalgar Square and Christmas light in Regent Street and Paicadilly Curcus. Substantial gift from Petersfield friends.
21st Spoke to Kings cross Koreans about my work. Children to Crusaders, me chat at hastens. He is a sincere Muslim. Spoke at IPC in evening and discussed future plans for evenings.
22nd Translating. Paid by SUM.
23rd To Broxboure EMF conference. Good slide presentation by WEC on evangelisation. Roy Clements very good lecture applying regulative principle to missions.
24th John Dart spiritualised Song of Songs. Talked with S Davies, Moorlands and J Potter SIM. then Barbara SA of TEAR fund and CLC man from Brazil..Graham Kingston, Gild Hill on church growth . SAMS man legalistic on giving. Meadows of Buzz on youth. Castro ICF on prayer.
25th Home. Supper at martins. Rachel bad sore throat.
26th Translating. Rachel off school.
27th With Brian Knell to FFM at UCCF centre.Heard about MECO, WEC, SIM, Gardner Trust, NAM and UCCF. Martins to dinner.
28th First frost. Joe Martin preached in the morning. Preached for Koreans at Emmanuel Wimbledon. Some at Ealing IPC in the evening.
29th Translating. Prayer at Knells.
30th To SGM with manuscript and to collect booklets. To CLC and St Pauls.
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