Thoughts From Francis

by Francis MacNutt
June 1992

We are really looking forward to our CHM trip to England and Ireland this summer (This will be our third trip there.) Again it will be marked by a wonderful ecumenical diversity: after recovering from jet lag, staying with friends in Guildford, we will spend an entire week in a Baptist Church in the industrial midlands (Sutton Coldfield), ending with healing services in Birmingham (July 6–11).

Then we head to the south coast and do a seminar on the "Healing of Relationships in the Family" at a healing center called "Glyndley Manor" (July 14–16). Next we do a conference at an ecumenical church in Northampton (July 17–19), followed by talks and healing services in the Anglican Cathedral and Town Hall of Wells. All that should stretch us! Our team (with Judith + me) will include Dr. Jackie Canepa (our administrator) and her husband Rev. Paul Canepa (an episcopal pastor), and Rev. Mike Evans, Associate Pastor of First Baptist Church, Bakersfield CA. (Mike will have a special part to play at our meetings at Sutton Coldfield Baptist Church, after which he will go to Leeds to help the churches we visited in 1990 (c/o Rev. Mike Towle).

After our England trip our family with Mike Evans fly to Dublin (July 27). Judith will take the children around the south of Ireland while Mike and I journey north and speak at the well known center of reconciliation in Rostrevor (Rev. Cecil Kerr, author of "Power to Love") (July 27). Then we travel on to Belfast and give seminars during the day and conduct healing services at night in the Anglican Cathedrals of Belfast (July 28) and Lisburn (July 29). After that we travel to Londonderry to speak to a group gathered by my friend Fr. Neil Carlin.

After that we get a chance to see Ireland. While Mike Evans returns to the State, T rejoin the family at a cottage near Cleggan, Galway on Ireland's beautiful west coast and come home on August 15th (I'd draw you a map of Ireland, too, but I'm afraid we would run out of space!)

All this comes right after our annual Fishnet conference in Rutland VT (June 21–25) which is perhaps the conference we most look forward to every year. From Fishnet will come Eva Peterson who will travel with us from Vermont and help with Rachel + David on the England part of the trip.

As you can see we have a strenuous spiritual adventure; our previous trips to England have been wonderful experiences (Rachel has come to love the people we met in England so much that she wants to go to college there!), so we really covet your prayers.

Love,
Francis & Judith
Rachel & David

Francis MacNutt is a Founding Director and Executive Committee member of CHM.