Spirit Renewal Ministries

Christ Church, Oxford, England, site of John Wesley's ordination, September 22, 1728 (Photograph by Rev. McAllister)

Today's reading from Pray as You Go - How appropriate in these days of political instability. Ephesians 6:10-20 Pray as You Go - a Jesuit publication from the UK, based on Ignatian Spirituality. Pray As You Go is a daily prayer session, designed to go with you wherever you go, to help you pray whenever you find time, but particularly whilst travelling to and from work, study, etc.... https://pray-as-you-go.org/player/prayer/2020-10-29

SRM has totally renewed its web site - worth a visit - please pray for our mission work in East Africa - SRM has served there since 2010, having just finished three weeks of training conferences with 390 pastors and church leaders in attendance in eight locations in Kenya and Uganda. https://www.spiritrenewalministries.com/Africa.html

We did it - hosted and posted our first online live Zoom worship service - lots to learn about technology and presentation, BUT we are making progress. Thanks to our volunteers from Alberta and Toronto who are working with SRM weekly to create and launch an integrated Social Media ministry - so important to give people the option to communicate , share, pray, worship, and be together in these never ending days of the global pandemic. We have much to share from our exciting African ministries - stay tuned - and see you at worship next week at 18:00 EST Wednesday evening. PS - if you are watching, please comment so we know you are with us Below - SRM at 2019 Maasai Mara worship service, Kenya.

Photo by Rev. Dr. Stephen McAllister, SRM Global

We remember today the amazing ministry of John Wesley - 1703-1791. He and his brother Charles were credited with the founding of the Methodist movement - From the time Wesley began field preaching in 1739 until his death 52 years later, he travelled 225,000 miles and preached more than 40,000 sermons. Wesley was described as a Catholic pietist with the bent toward the Pentecostal and with a passion for the poor and the needy. He was theologically conservative, revolutionary, and in his ministry, "he challenged the nominalism and complacency that are the sins of all establishments not with a liberal revisionism, but by a radical retrieval of lost ideas and practices." (Wesley for armchair Theologians, William Abraham, p.43) (Excerpts from Rev. McAllister's book on the renewal of the liberal protestant church).

Header photo from a Zadok Ministries International / Spirit Renewal Ministries mission trip to Curacao

First Nairobi Trip

Familiar sight to visitors who arrive by cruise ship.

Covid Crazy? Need an uplifting hour? Join us tonight for online worship! Join us tonight Zoom worship 6 PM - the Parable of the Rich Young Man - Matthew 19:16-22 Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86018398405... Meeting Number: 860 1839 8405 Parable of Rich Young Man https://youtu.be/YehxfK8oXx0

Join SRM for a prayer /. worship service each Wednesday evening at 6:00 PM EST - https://tinyurl.com/y6yhqjel Meeting ID 860 1839 8405 https://www.spiritrenewalministries.com/Worship.html

We give thanks for today and the great service last night - join SRM each Wednesday evening.

Please pray for and support upcoming Kenya / Uganda Mission trip - 22 days https://indd.adobe.com//501e78cc-2fb5-4e22-b03a-9017729d0f

Join us tomorrow evening (Friday, Nov. 2) for an evening of frivolity with a fall dinner and a movie. Dinner at 5:00 PM, Movie to follow. Location: Princess Street United Church, 484 Albert Street, Kingston, ON. For information: 613-840-5001. Tickets at the door.

There will be no Wednesday night service service with SRM at Princess Street United Church, 484 Albert Street, Kingston on June 6. Services resume June 13, 6 pm. http://www.spiritrenewalministries.com/worship.html

Join SRM in prayer as we meet with our Texas coordinator, Marilyn Snell, and many friends in the College Station area, and Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. June 1-12. Temperature in Austin, where we are today, hit a balmy 100 Fahrenheit yesterday and is predicted to do so again today. That is 37.8 degrees Celsius.

Please join us today at Princess Street United Church, 484 Albert Street, Kingston, as Rev. Susan McAllister presents her exciting story of her 2018 Mission trip to Kenya with SRM - service at 10am.