Barnabas Ministries UK

Rev. & Mrs. S.D. Anderson

Season of Pentecost

Hello

My name is Sid Anderson and for the last eighteen years with my wife Jean’s constant support I have fulfilled the role of Senior Pastor of Bentley Pentecostal Church near Doncaster. Next week we hand over the leadership of the Church to James and Nichola Seager.

After recently completing my Masters in Missions at Mattersey, I was contemplating what I would be doing in the final few weeks before re-tyring from the Church when it dawned upon me that it was the ‘Season of Pentecost’.

Having just moved the venue for our Church Prayer Meeting to an upstairs room; then why not call it an ‘Upper Room Prayer Meeting’ in expectation of a move of the Holy Spirit. We were not disappointed as Mike (pictured above, third from the left) a Methodist for 45 years was filled with the Spirit and spoke out in a beautiful tongue. He’s been shining ever since. We then decided to make Pentecost Sunday special this year with a Celebration of the Gift of the Holy Spirit in the Morning Service followed by a Water Baptism Service in the evening.

In the morning service Pastor Henry Drabble was scheduled to speak on the ‘Hurricane of Pentecost’ instead of hearing the sermon we experienced it as everyone came forward to receive something from God. A high point of blessing was enjoyed as the men sang ‘He Touched Me’ and the women came forward and prayed for them.

In the evening service seven were baptised in water, both young and those a little older. After Pastor Sid presented the Good News of the Gospel four made decisions for Jesus Christ.

The four girls are the second phase of baptismal candidates from the Youth Café for early and late teens held every Monday and Thursday evening. Kevin Watts the Youth Pastor (he’s is the one on the right trying to look older) reports that over 100 teenagers attend most evenings and over the last two years over 800 different teenagers have attended. The Christian young people who help run the café were recently presented with an award by local M P Ed. Milliband for their services to young people.

Sid expects to visit West Africa on a more regular basis to assist and encourage missionaries from Burkina Faso to engage in frontier missions in Mali and Niger. If you would like to know more about this work feel free to contact him on e-mail siddanderson@aol.com

To God be all the Glory.