Just A Shopping Trip To Bolton?

God Had Other Plans…

It was just going to be a shopping trip for Paul and his wife Angie. They parked up at Bethel church and saw two men walking up the hill towards them. One of them, M, asked if we could supply him with a bible. Angie knew exactly where to look in church and so it didn't take long to find a New Testament Psalms and Proverbs. We mentioned the section on helpful bible verses and M went away happy with what we had supplied him with.

Having walked to a nearby retail park and entered one of the shops to look for some bedding both Paul and Angie noticed a familiar accent from another family there. Eventually Paul decided to ask a key question. 'Excuse me, but have you been to the Appleby Horse Fair?' 'Yes' was the reply. Three generations of the family of Irish Travellers were shopping together and we got into a long conversation with the grandmother. It turned out that Paul had visited a Traveller site in Salford where this lady had relatives. We promised to pray for K and her family. K responded saying that she would pray for us too.