Website

I have set up a basic website for the Groves Centre on Google sites. You can see it here: http://bit.ly/Grovescentre. It still needs work, and some of the information will need to be revised in the next few days, but the basics are all there. Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested in studying in Prague during the next academic year.

Study Centre Latest

The last few months have been a bit up and down in many ways as we have sought the Lord's guidance concerning the year-long course at the ICP Study Centre. As most of you know, this has been the plan ever since we arrived in January 2009 but it is only in the last few weeks that we have received the final go-ahead from the church. Our revised plan is for us to rent office and teaching space in the centre of Prague which will allow us to offer a variety of courses, ranging from a year-long full-time one to part-time modules. The materials we intend to use are the same as originally planned - modules from Trinity College in Bristol. Please pray with us as we seek students fro the various courses and as we search for premises. The plan is to rent from the beginning of August, but this will only be the case if we have full-time students at that stage. The centre will be called "The Groves Centre" after Anthony Norris Groves (more information about him is on Wikipedia and in the brochure I mention below).
We feel very much in the Lord's hands and are waiting upon him in terms of students. A brochure with more details of the course and our plans can be downloaded from here: http://bit.ly/ICPgc (this is still being revised, so the final version will look a little different, though the main information is accurate). If you know of anyone who would be interested in studying here, then please pass this information on to them or ask them to contact us directly. Please continue to pray, we are extremely grateful for your faithful prayers over the past 2 1/2 years.

Sunday, Centre, GLO Zambia

This coming Sunday, there will be a vote at ICP concerning the potential year-long course.  Please pray with us that the Lord's will be done.  We don't want to go ahead with this if the Lord is not leading us forward.  If the vote is a 'yes' we will be looking for students to start in September.  So, if you know anyone, get in touch!!
The revised plan is for us to rent office and teaching space near the centre of Prague and to house students with host families or in nearby rented accommodation.  There will be lots of practical things to sort out whatever the outcome of Sunday's meeting, so we would appreciate prayer for us in that.
Dorit and I won't be in Prague for the meeting as I am off to Trinity for another week's lectures and Dorit is using the opportunity to go and visit the kids in Exeter.
Some of you may have heard of the recent sad events in Zambia.  Some of the people attached to the GLO Bible College were involved in an accident a couple of days ago.  One Faroese girl was killed, another seriously injured and other people, including one of the lecturers, are still in hospital.  Please pray for the family of Runa (the girl who died) and the other families at this time.  If you are on Facebook, more details can be found on the GLO Zambia page.