Category: Updates

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today is a big day around the world in many places where Irish people and Irish supporters live. Derry City certainly enjoys celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. For the church there, it is a great opportunity to be

This past week, we had the blessing of hosting David, a missionary to the country of Egypt. He spoke at our church, Downham Baptist Church, as well as Chelsea Community Baptist Church and Brimpton Baptist Church during his time here. It is

Planting a new church is both exciting and challenging. New churches must work at overcoming obstacles on a regular basis. Some of those obstacles can be regarding funds, people, buildings, community perceptions, etc. Northwest Baptist Church has been blessed over

I woke up this morning to two encouragements. First, a friend gave a further $100 to the building fund! Second, I received the following letter from Emmanuel Baptist Church, one of our supporting churches in Pennsylvania. Hi Snode family! Greetings

I know that many of you were so disappointed to not receive an update from me yesterday! But I am back today! (Thanks for reading and praying, and I apologise for the deluge of updates. I promise that my updates will be

Getting started is tough. Finishing is even tougher. When it comes to the church, the job is really never done because the church is a living body that should always be growing. But when it comes to church-planting, there is a

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be worth at least, say…ten thousand words? Here is a video that I recorded a few weeks ago when I was in Derry with Northwest Baptist Church. In

Yesterday, we received word from one of our supporting churches that they are sending us an extra $1000 in our support this month. We don’t believe it was a coincidence that they chose to send the money right now! We will use the

I have a theory that there comes a moment in any worthy endeavour when you get discouraged and wonder whether you should go on, and what you do in that moment will make all the difference. That moment came for me in December

Finding a place to meet is always a big hurdle for new churches to overcome. In the early days of the church plant in Derry/Londonderry, we used our home, a community centre, and even a couple hotels conference rooms. After