The Morgan-Gurrs

While we were in Northern Ireland, we went to Holywood Primary School. They emailed to say thankyou, and showed us what they put on their website about us.
This is it:

Dear Kay & Steve,
I wanted to write on behalf of our school to thank you for the assembly you did with us in school. The staff and children enjoyed your visit very much and talked about it enthusiastically after you left.I have put your photo on our school website along with a short piece of News that children in my class recorded after seeing your performance. if you are interested in looking at it, it can be found on http://www.holywoodprimary.ik.org/ in the latest news section. Thanks once again.
Keep up your great work! It was very nice to meet you too.
Debbie Crookshanks

And on the web site:

All the boys and girls were treated to a great assembly.
It was led by husband and wife team Steve and Kay Morgan- Gurr from Leicester.
We met Albert the chimpanzee, Starsky the rabbit and the story from the Bible was about Peter.
It even included a visit from Mr Impossible of all people!
The children and teachers really enjoyed the assembly. Many thanks to Steve,Kay,Albert and Starsky !

Jeff Lucas has done a fantastic evangelistic booklet for Christmas – the idea is that churches can buy it in bulk to give to people who come to carol/Christmas events.
He says “It’s designed to be kingdom focused, (let God change a broken world through you – not just get Jesus in your heart and go to heaven), with a light humorous touch and not be fluffy and sentimental. It also empowers journey as well as crisis conversion.”
Having read through the booklet, all we can say is – at last a cringe free Christmas resource that I would be happy to give to parents coming to our all age events.
If you would like to read the text first – contact us by using the comments button below and we’ll let you see the text.
Orders can be processed through a local freephone number – 0845 166 8463. The cover price is 1.50 per unit but by buying quantities churches can get a massive discount – 67% – bringing the price down to just 50 pence.

On Sunday night we had a phone call to say that James Steve’s Youngest son, (Kay’s stepson) and his fiance Naomi had been taken to hospital after a serious fire. Because of on going police investigations, I don’t want to say more about the circumstances, but we are amazed and thankful to have them alive and well.
We knew they hadn’t been burnt, but had inhaled a lot of smoke. We were in the dark about what their flat was like.
We got straight down to the hospital and stayed with them until they were moved to a ward.
It took a while to find out the full story of what the flat was like – although the fire was down stairs, super heated smoked filled their flat causing devastating damage, the fire men had to break windows to get water inside to stop their flat bursting into flames too. Add to that ….. the fireman’s boots…….you can imagine the rest!
They have not manged to rescue much, but they have managed to save their most precious things. Very few clothes were rescuable. They were insured, and the housing association are paying for hotel, bed and breakfast, and money for evening meals.
We asked people to pray for peace and a calm approach to sorting things out and that prayer is being answered. Pray for James’s Grandma – it has been a huge shock for her.

It seems a while since our last post doesn’t it?!
After managing to get to the last hour of the Dalesdown prayer day last Thursday, and having a chat with our lovely administrator – Pete, we then went to stay with our friends Mike and Judi Southcombe. (We stay there so often we are now honorary Southcombes!)
The next day (Friday) we flew out to Ireland where we were due to work with Holywood Parish Church in Belfast. We trained all day on Saturday, led the family service on Sunday morning and popped into two other services to show what we we up to(!) We then went into two local schools on Monday Morning, before flying back to Gatwick in the afternoon.
We had a lovely time in Holywood – the hospitality was amazing….we had been warned, but it still took us by surprise. Many thanks to Sharon and Peter for your many encouragements, inspiration and hospitality – we have both come home physically heavier but very encouraged!
From Gatwick we went straight back to Dalesdown, just in time for a Camps debrief meeting that evening. The next day we had a management group meeting for Children Worldwide – it was long but profitable. After a minor detour to Scripture union offices on the way, we arrived home on Wednesday afternoon.
There now follows a couple of days of paperwork, and our first weekend off in weeks!