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Joe Turkington (1918-1982) was saved as a boy of 10. Later, while a member of the Baptist Church, he met Mr John McCann in the factory where the two men worked. Through Mr McCann, Joe Turkington learnt New Testament assembly truth and came into fellowship with the believers meeting in Lurgan Gospel Hall. In 1947 he was commended to serve the Lord in Venezuela. Along with his wife, Miss Ruth Saword, Joe Turkington laboured and toiled in Venezuela with dedication and zeal, seeing the Lord’s hand in souls being saved and numerous assemblies being planted. He was called home in his 60’s, sadly not surviving heart surgery. At his large funeral, Mr Albert McShane commented, “There was not a lazy bone in his body”. In this report, given at the Belfast Easter Conference 3 months before his death, Mr Turkington gives an account of the work of the Lord in Venezuela, the land that he loved, and on which he left an indelible mark.

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Do you give up easily when someone refuses to come to a gospel meeting? Marco Gebara was asked 6 times, and refused each time! But God was at work, and even when his Christian friend gave up, Marco volunteered to go without being asked a 7th time! He intended to go once and never return…but the Lord had other plans. At the Lurgan conference in 2016, interpreted from Portuguese by Tom Meekin, Marco told his testimony. Marco and Janice Gebara now serve the Lord in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Photo above: Sao Paulo, Brazil)

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John Thompson (1921-2008) was saved on 22nd February 1937. He joined the Police as a young man and, on being promoted to sergeant in 1945, moved to Rosslea in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. What happened over the next few years was nothing less than a remarkable work of the Spirit of God. Sergeant Thompson witnessed to his colleagues, resulting in four R.U.C. constables getting saved. First John Rowe, then Norman Workman, and finally, on the same night – 17th May 1949 – Ernest Gribben and William Nesbitt. Mr Gribben and Mr Nesbitt heard the gospel over a period of time in a small hut in Rosslea in meetings held each Sunday and arranged by a Mr William Deering. Then, when the newly converted 25-year-old Harold Paisley came to preach in a series of gospel meetings in nearby Mullahara (with the encouragement of a Dr Thomas Hagan), constables Gribben and Nesbitt were converted. They were subsequently baptised by Mr Paisley in the River Finn. John Thompson went on to be a full time evangelist, commended in 1951. Mr Nesbitt the same, in 1958. Mr Gribben was for many years an esteemed elder in the assembly in Newtownbreda. In 2001 a meeting was arranged by the believers from Plantation Gospel Hall, and held in the Friends’ School, Lisburn, to commemorate Mr Thompson’s 50 years in the Lord’s work, supported by his godly wife Ena. During the course of that meeting (in which numerous speakers took part), Mr Gribben (1920-2004) and Mr Nesbitt (1927-2017) told of their conversions in Rosslea 50 years earlier. Mr Thompson also told his testimony. Those three messages, in that order, are featured on this historic recording.

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Albert Hull (1936-2015) and Harold Paisley (1924-2015) preach the gospel in November 1997 at the Stark Road Gospel Hall annual conference, in Livonia, Michigan, USA.

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Albert Hull’s story of conversion

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David Craig (1902-1977), affectionately known as “Scotch Davey”, was born and raised in Scotland. Saved in Baillieston near Glasgow as a 12 year old boy, Mr Craig began to preach at the age of 16. 10 years or so later in 1929 Mr Craig went out full time in the Lord’s work, and became a mighty evangelist and Bible teacher. Here in this powerful message given in 1971, Mr Craig speaks of a day when men will call on the rocks to hide them from “the wrath of the Lamb”, unless now, while they are able, men flee to Christ as their hiding place from coming judgment. Readings: Rev 6:12-17, Isa 32:1-2.

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Hymns included are: “Years I spent in vanity and pride”; “Christ the Saviour of sinners came”; “Nothing either great or small”; “Would you be free from your burden of sin?”; “Jesus is our Shepherd”; “Lord Jesus I love Thee”; “Simply trusting every day”; “Sovereign grace o’er sin abounding”; “O love that wilt not let me go”; “O the deep deep love of Jesus”; and “The gospel of Thy grace”.

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Robert Love (1885-1979) was saved at the age of 19 in 1904. This is a recording of Mr Love telling the story of his conversion after 60 years had passed. 10 years after being saved, Mr Love went out full time in gospel work. Robert Love was a character, unique in his delivery and original in his style, and known for his plain speaking. A tireless labourer, Mr Love was used of the Lord to see a work done in the salvation of many souls. Reading: Acts 4:10-12 (Recorded in Northern Ireland)

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Norman Coulter (1941-2012) tells how God saved him in February 1962. Brought up in a godly home, Norman chose to seek out the pleasures of the world and broke his parents’ hearts. However, God convicted Norman of his sin and he was saved in Omagh one night during a move of the Holy Spirit in the town. In 1994, after 30 or so years as an architect, Norman left his business and gave all his time to preach the gospel. He was a diligent and hard worker, knocking on many thousands of doors, taking a particular interest in neglected rural areas of the north of Ireland, as well as the Scottish islands of Lewis, Harris, North Uist, and the Orkney and Shetland islands. (Testimony given in Cregagh Street Gospel Hall, Belfast) (Photo above: the Orkney Islands, Scotland)

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Leonard Mullan (1918-2004)  was born the year WW1 ended, and the Spanish Flu pandemic began. He grew up in “Carnlough by the sea”, from whence he would eventually go to Japan to serve the Lord. He was saved in meetings held in his parents’ home, taken by Messrs Joseph Stewart and David Craig. This is a recording made when Mr Mullan was 85 years old, saved for 73 years. The record of his and his wife Agnes’s 37 years in Japan are told in Mr Mullan’s autobiography The God of My Life. Mr Mullan wrote a poem reflecting on the challenge of leaving Carnlough to serve the Lord in the Far East:

Japan or Carnlough! Oh which shall it be!

Before giving his testimony Mr Mullan read: Heb 2:9 4:12-13, 7:25, 9:27, 10:12, 12:29, 13:20-21 (Recorded in Glengormley, Northern Ireland)

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Andrew Ussher delivers an exhortation on prayer. To whom whom should we pray and how should we pray? Reverently, intimately, thankfully, specifically, honestly, deliberately, persistently, urgently and consistently. Readings: 1 Tim 2:1-2, Luke 11:1-4, John 14:12b-14, 16:23-24, Phil 4:6-7 (Message preached at the Thanksgiving Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018)

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