Praise God we made it to our Hostel in Glasgow, Scotland that night. We could tell Glasgow was going to be different from the other two countries. We met up with Jimmy Blair a Scottish brother who helped us the whole time we were there, a man of God and a Servants heart. Also Desmond flew in with his friend from Ireland to preached with us as well for a few days.
The next morning Jeff took us to an old bookstore that had old books piled up everywhere. We found some great old priceless reformed and Scottish history books and more. It was amazing what you could dig up in that book store. The city center is packed with people all day from 10am-7pm, just shopping and walking around. They always stopped and listen to us preached, crowds would gather in moments from when we started, all day this happened. We went back out that night as well and preached around the pubs. It was a great night, the gospel was thundered out to many people. I recall Jon had a good heckler who at the end calm down and understood the gospel the more he witness to her. It was a great Friday overall of preaching, passing out tracts and talking, to God be the glory!
The next morning, half of us went to Edinburgh to see the castle, John Knox’s church and house, and the memorial sight of the Scottish Covenanters. What a beautiful scenery we saw of the town. There were tourist all over the place. We saw statues of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in front of the castle. Tim preached in front of the castle for a bit and then we moved on to John Knox’s church. A very big church it was with a statue of him inside. Then we preached as well in front of the church. Then we moved on to the Covenanters memorial mount. As we started the preaching where a lot of the Scottish Covenanters were killed for their faith we knew it was going to be powerful. A pastor heard the preaching at first and then I got down when I was done, he thanked me and said he was so encouraged to see us preached. We talked a bit, he said he had a church 7 miles from there, and said they were taking a mission trip to Laos in a month, when I told him I was Laotian. Then he asked if he can get up and preached for a few minutes as well! What a powerful act of God using that day. Later a bag piper came and try to drown the preaching. Jon boldly continuing preaching his sermon and it drew a crowd of like 200 hundred people that heard the gospel even though they were mocking us and supporting the Bag piper. At the end he left and we preached a bit more on the mount, and at the end we address the crowd that we were leaving and thanking God we got to preach, the crowd then applauded us for some reasons! I did get to chat to a tourist person before we left, he said he was thankful and understood the gospel more and wanted to go read his bible as soon as he gets home. God was working on hearts of many that whole day. That night some of us went out and finished up preaching at the pubs in Scotland for the last time.
The next morning on Sunday we went to Jimmy’s church where Jeff preached the morning service and Jon preached the night service. Many Scots were challenged and encouraged by Jeff’s sermon to take it to another level and be bold for Christ as their ancestors were back in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Jon then preach a sobering and convicting sermon on a false convert. Acting like a christian for many years on the outside but living like the world during the week and in the heart. Also that God is still merciful to changed the heart even being a hypocrite, you still can be changed by the power of God and only by him.
They last day we were all release to get ready to fly back to the US, some went to Manchester and preached with Kevin Williams, some went to Stirling, and some stayed in Glasgow and left to Manchester at night to rest up and leave in the morning. I must say, God was in the midst of this whole trip as we lifted the name of Jesus in the UK. The fellowship with the brethren and UK Christians will stay within our hearts for we live to please God in proclaiming the gospel. Let God receive all the praise and glory for all we preached, witness, commune and fellowships and seen in the UK. Thank you Jesus for saving your people and calling them to proclaim and worship God to the heathen. Soli Deo Gloria!
(Edwin)
