Burnett, Colin & Natalie

Colin and Natalie have been commended to the Lord’s work in this beautiful area in the west of Ireland. They are involved in door-to-door work, evangelism, and teaching.

Commending Church

West 5th Bible Chapel

PRAYER ITEMS

6

Feb 2025

Outreach work

Please pray with us as we plan to set up our outreach stand next Sunday at the Newcastle West Agricultural Show. [...]
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29

Sep 2022

Visible presence

We continue with outreach in the town square. Since we have been out for a few months now, we are getting noticed more and engaging in some good conversations. We…
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1

Sep 2022

How to proceed

Natalie recently had right heart failure and underwent a heart scan to determine how much scarring has occurred because of this. The Cardiologist said the results of this scan will…
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25

Aug 2022

Update on Natalie

The cardiologist has her booked in for a CMR MRI of the heart. They are expecting to get word from the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin. The reason for this is…
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18

Aug 2022

Natalie’s heart

Please pray for Natalie. She has not been feeling good the past few weeks. Her blood pressure is high and she was having pains in her chest and shortness of…
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7

Jul 2022

Lost, lonely, despondent

We continue to present the Gospel in the market, at front doors, or during our coffee morning. It is so important that we get out and take the Gospel to…
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26

May 2022

A better location

Thanks to your prayers we are now able to set up our stall in the town square. It is actually a better location, right across from the castle entrance and…
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19

May 2022

Some other location

Last week we set up a stall at the local Farmers Market, now being held on the castle grounds. We had a good day full of good conversations. People were…
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31

Mar 2022

Ways to make an impact

So far, 60 Ukrainians have arrived in our town and we were able to provide some needed supplies. We will try to visit again with a Ukrainian brother. We would…
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24

Feb 2022

Drained

We are thankful for many opportunities to reach out to people in town. Some involve heart-to-heart talks, while others involve helping out in practical ways. Please pray for strength, as…
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10

Feb 2022

Urgent need for prayer

We have an urgent need for prayer. We are helping a mother by letting her stay in our house until we find another place for them to live. Our landlord…
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23

Dec 2021

A lengthy talk

We have seen good interest on our Friday Coffee morning. This runs as a drop-in and provides a time to get to know people and to share the Lord with…
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25

Nov 2021

Carol service

We are planning to have our annual Carol service on December 19th. This has always attracted many visitors. Unfortunately, the Government just announced the possibility of another lockdown if the…
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30

Sep 2021

A new effort

We are looking to set up a stand at a new farmers’ market in town in order to share the Gospel and sell Christmas crafts. Please pray for this new…
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2

Sep 2021

Looking for friendship

This past weekend one of the ladies that came to our coffee morning for the first time, came out to Sunday service. She had never seen or heard anything like…
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5

Aug 2021

Re-starting

We are re-starting our weekly coffee mornings on Friday, August 6th. It has been 16 months since we have been able to hold them. Please join us in praying for…
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15

Jul 2021

Indoor dining is still not permitted

Over the past few weeks, four men who came to our coffee mornings have asked us to come visit them. Please pray for them. None of them are saved, although…
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3

Jun 2021

Spiritual and emotional effects

We have started meeting in person again. We would value prayer for the months ahead, as we make decisions on outreach work. We also feel there is a need to…
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22

Apr 2021

Suffering physically and emotionally

Ireland is still in lockdown. Over the past 13 months, we have had 10 months of no church gatherings. This closure has brought many concerns, as half of the fellowship…
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28

Jan 2021

Visible witness

We have distributed our annual scripture calendar to every home here. The calendars, along with the billboard message over Christmas are a very visible witness around town. We do thank…
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10

Dec 2020

In-person meeting

Thankfully restrictions here have been lifted until January 6th, so we had our first in-person meeting this past weekend. Services can only be an hour long, so that means squeezing…
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19

Nov 2020

Another reason we need to meet in person

According to the news, it looks like there will be no church gatherings until Christmas. We have been closed for the past 5 weeks after being open for 2 months.…
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17

Sep 2020

Hoping the restriction will be eased

Almost every week we meet people on the street asking when we will be open for coffee morning. We are hoping the restriction will be eased by the 21st as…
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11

Jun 2020

Lockdown relaxation

On June 8th, some new relaxation of lockdown rules came into effect. With that in mind, we ordered a gospel tract from the UK written for Coronavirus. Please pray as…
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30

Apr 2020

COVID-19 gospel tract

Please pray for our fellowship. Due to the present conditions, we knew we needed to do something to reach out to our town. We have ordered a COVID-19 gospel tract…
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24

Apr 2020

Covid outreach

Please pray for our fellowship. Due to the present conditions, we knew we needed to do something to reach out to our town. We have ordered a COVID- 19 gospel…
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23

Apr 2020

Maintained contact

We have maintained contact with the many neighbours that would have come along to our coffee time and lunch outreaches. With others in the fellowship, we have also done some…
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26

Mar 2020

A gospel calendar

We are now working on a gospel calendar. The pictures are from around this locality, which makes them more desirable. This is another means of getting the Gospel into homes…
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16

Jan 2020

Monthly gospel lunch

The monthly gospel lunch continues with around 15 unsaved attending. We are thankful for this opportunity to reach out to people in town. Through these efforts three ladies come most…
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10

Oct 2019

One of the benefits

The work of the food bank is going strong. One of the benefits of this work is the many contacts that are being made. Many of those who want to…
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15

Aug 2019

Natalie’s health

Please pray with us for Natalie, she was admitted to hospital on Monday with a very low heart rate. She has been feeling weak and exhausted for the past month…
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11

Jul 2019

Food bank

The work of the food bank is going strong. Many comment on their appreciation of what is done for them. Not just the food, but that they are made to…
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8

May 2019

Coffee morning drop-in

Our Wednesday Coffee morning drop-in is going well. Recently, four men started to come along. They are amazed that we don’t charge for anything and were wondering why. This opened…
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31

Jan 2019

Carols by Candlelight

We have been doing our ‘Carols by Candlelight’ service for the past 8 years. This year over 100 came along and 70 of those were unsaved contacts from various outreaches,…
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8

Nov 2018

Contacts

We have been encouraged by folks joining us for the family service and other outreaches. These are primarily contacts from the food bank. We pray that they will see their…
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27

Sep 2018

New faces

The Food Bank continues to grow with new faces coming. Now that summer is over we are back to having soup and pastries. This is a time for people to…
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12

Jul 2018

Encouraging

‘Coffee Morning’ is encouraging, as we spend time with people in a very informal environment. Attendance ranges from 5-16 and there is time to get to know people. All that…
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22

Mar 2018

Cafe church

We began a new gospel outreach called Café Church. This has proved to be a good work. The first night we had 15 unsaved in and last month there were…
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18

Jan 2018

Coffee morning

The Food Bank has proved to be an excellent means of meeting new people. We have also started serving soup and bread, and many stay for this. It is a…
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18

Oct 2017

Weekly food bank

A new initiative at the fellowship is a weekly food bank. Through an organization called Food Cloud we have access to their warehouse and to three grocery shops in town.…
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14

Jun 2017

A small village

We recently had a team of 5 young folks over from the US. It is always encouraging to have help in the work. We were able to go out door…
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21

Sep 2016

Three families

Last month we received notice that three Syrian families were being located in Newcastle West. Just after hearing about this, Natalie and I were out driving when we passed a…
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21

Sep 2016

Baking class

We have started a Saturday morning baking class at our house for older kids as an outreach. The makeup of the class is, Polish, Irish, & Syrian. We are hoping…
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27

Jul 2016

Most people no longer go to church

For the past 7 weeks we have been working in another town. While it is not a big town, there has been a good response to our visits. Presiding over…
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