GEORGE WHITFIELD

Cool thoughts:
I was at a conference today with my good friend Enzo, he briefly mentioned about George Whitfield preaching to crowds of 20000+ in 1740’s - 1770’s.
I thought I‘d do a little research and found he preached to 20,000+ potentially 30,000 in 1742. amazing cuz i don’t reckon they had P.A in them days. I thought that was so amazing!
I found this as well:
Benjamin Franklin once attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with Whitefield's ability to deliver a message to such a large audience. Franklin had dismissed reports of Whitefield preaching to crowds of the order of tens of thousands in England as exaggeration. When listening to Whitefield preaching from the Philadelphia court house, Franklin walked away towards his shop in Market Street until he could no longer hear Whitefield distinctly. He then estimated his distance from Whitefield and calculated the area of a semi-circle centred on Whitefield. Allowing two square feet per person he realized that Whitefield really could be heard by tens of thousands of people in the open air.

little interview

My good friend Mr Sayburn has posted a little interview with me on his site (www.chrissayburn.co.uk)

Father of compassion radio play

Father of compassion will be hitting the radio waves over the next few months
it's on the ncm63 (www.newchristianmusic.co.uk)

The fray

I went to the see THE FRAY on Saturday!
Faultless performance. The band were fantastic, but the crowd we're a bit pants, talking all the way through the more slow intimate songs.
For all you bands out there, even the fray have people talking very loudly at the gig!

CO-WRITING:

I've recently been doing some co-writing with my fellow song writer Chris Sayburn (Checkout Chris's website: www.chrissayburn.co.uk)
so far we have a few songs and hopefully one of us or both of us will post these soon.
we have 3 songs so far:
Living for you
I pour out my worship (here at your feet)
King of ages (God beyond all history)

It's been great co-writing and it's really good to learn off each other

April update:

Things have been busy in April: I wanted to blog about each event but didn't get round to it, but here is a brief bit of info

was involved in some great events including Costa coffee in Lancaster with the youth from fathers house church, had a really great night, thanks to mark and Nicola for asking me to come along, also had a training day with my mate Enzo (www.parakletos.co.uk) check out his website, and I was also involved the toolkit event in Liverpool, which was a training day for youth and children workers. This was a great day for resourcing the church and went really well!
Also had a great time at church
I have recently been using "when i survey" the good old hymn. Tim Hughes has done a great version on his new album. We've started doing a similar version just in a different key, the words are fantastic:
Checkout Tim's version @ http://www.worshipcentral.org/audio/when-i-survey