Monthly News Business Men’s Fellowship (UK) PO Box 679 Whitley Bay England United Kingdom NE26 9AX Tel: 0845 519 2473 www.businessmen.org.uk December 2011 Testimony Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you Olympic Chaplin, Dave Smethurst was the guest speaker at the BMF Dinner meeting held in Wigan recently. David Smethurst and his wife Margurita were called into by ministry God in 1972 . This calling has taken them into churches, schools, youth groups, colleges, con- vents, military bases, prisons etc across the world including Africa, Australia, USA, Britain, Ireland, Latvia and other ex So- viet countries, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Malaysia, Ice- land. 1988 saw the establish- ment of the Smethurst Ministries in Australia. From preach- ing in Lutheran Churches in Australia God gave the minis- try favour with the Lutheran Arch Bishop of Eastern Europe resulting in teams min- istering in Latvia and other ex Soviet countries in churches, schools and or- phanages Dave has been the Chaplin to many major world sporting events through the years and also supports or- phanages in Eastern Europe and the Ukraine, supporting more than 5,500 orphans. At the dinner in Wigan following the ministry time 7 people came to the Lord. This was also a fund raiser for a 5 year old local girl names Emma Hoolin who was undergoing chemo for leukae- mia. The Lord led me to give all the all the proceeds of the DVD/CD sales to her fund – 230 pounds. That was a real privilege. Her grandfather, Stan Hoolin, was there to receive the gifts. He got quite emotional about it There were quite a lot of Africans there from Malawi & Zambia. I took a flyer and asked if anyone spoke Zulu. One woman (Freda) came from Durban (my home city) raised her hand and we had a bit of dialog. The crowd loved that. A Zambian lady with her came to the Lord. Norma & Allan Jones with Dave Smethurst Freda with Dave Stuart with Stan Hoolin Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International International Leaders Prayer Summit. The Leadership in Canada, America, Nigeria, the UK, and Asia, together with Business Men’s Fellowship in America, invite all Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship nations who have either voluntarily removed them- selves from being under the control struc- ture of the International office, or who have been removed from connection with the International office, or who do not identify with more recent actions of the International office, to join together from Thursday, January 12 th to Saturday, January 14 th , 2012 in London for a Full Gospel Busi- ness Men’s Fellowship International Lead- ers Prayer Summit. The proposed Leadership Prayer Summit will particularly provide opportunity to: 1. Seek God’s mind with regard to restoring and re-building relationships 2. Move forward again in unity and har- mony 3. More fully achieve God’s global vision as given to our founder, Demos Shakarian 4. Re-establish fellowship among nations, re - empowering them together in Christ for global witness The BMF have been invited to at- tend and our CEO Steven Turnbull will at- tend the meeting to observe on our behalf who said “I agree we should go, to pray and to listen on the Lord. We really need to seek the Lord’s direction in the weeks ahead. I believe BMF was called into being by our father and he has given us a work to do through it.” Therefore I would ask and encour- age all our members to bring this before the Lord in that His will be done in all things Wednesday 14 th December 7:00pm, Sanaam Tandoori Restaurant, Falkirk, Speaker: Barry Miller. Contact: David +447 764 501 514, or Fraser +447 764 763 091or Duncan +441 324 624 519 or [email protected]