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Gareth and Malou Bolton Welcome
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We really do appreciate the support we receive from all our friends. We particularly value your continued prayers. This Web Site gives you some background about us, our personal testimonies, a summary of what has been going on recently, and where we hope to be going in the future.
AND there's more - when you have explored this site please have a look at what our charity AMEN is doing and how God is using our partners in wonderful ways!!!
Gareth gareth.bolton@ict.om.org Malou malou.bolton@ict.om.org |
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Our latest news 1st June 2009
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Originally named Formosa by the Portuguese (meaning ‘beautiful’), this island has a smaller percentage of believers than her much larger neighbour, China, a nation with which she continues to experience a very unsettled relationship. Some Taiwanese seem to have heard little or nothing of Jesus, so it was a great privilege to speak to about 2300 people at the International Night in the port of Hualien. A local Baptist church had prepared all the follow-up materials and provided all the counsellors. Before the conclusion of the event, I led in a prayer of commitment. Afterwards, I could not get near the counselling tables for the crowds who were there, some filling in forms, some talking and some praying. A few days earlier, Malou had spoken at the Foreign Brides conference. This was for those women from various Asian nations who had married local Taiwanese men. It proved to be an appropriate word and was well received. Meanwhile, twice a week at morning devotions, under the general heading of ‘An Introduction to Christian Ethics’, subjects as varied as abortion, capital punishment, same sex relationships and the 10 commandments sometimes resulted in a lot of discussion later in the work place. Before returning to the UK, we visited the northern Philippine island of Batanes where Malou had been raised and educated. Getting there is always a challenge because of the weather, the few flights and the high price of the tickets. The only other plane operated by the small airline we took had crashed a few weeks earlier with the loss of both pilots and all passengers. Our prayer lives certainly took on an added dimension before and during our flights! Nonetheless we had a great time on the island, eating lobsters, drinking coconut milk as well as swimming daily and fishing. On the Sunday we both shared in the Baptist church which regularly prays for us.
Three
of Malou’s 10 brothers and Still
crazy after all these years! sisters and a few of her 18+ nieces (that is Gareth, not Malou!!!) and
nephews!
We fly to New Zealand next Tuesday for 3½ weeks of ministry and visitation and to see something of the country. It will be the middle of winter and a first visit for both of us, making it Gareth’s 108th and Malou’s 86nd country. Since we need to redeem some expiring Skywards miles with Emirates airline, the flights are only costing us £61 each. Click here for more details of the upcoming NZ visit. We greatly appreciate your friendship and your interest in our work, God bless you,
Gareth ><> Malou Bolton (
www.garethandmalou.org (Personal Information); www.amentrust.co.uk (AMEN Charity)
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