Letters written to those offering prayer support
Four Sisters is now being run by Ocean Youth Trust Ireland for the Colclough family. Following a major refit, it is hoped to operate in the Irish Sea including West Wales in 2006.
In 2003 I received a message from my friend Tim Smith circulated around Morning Star Trust members: –
“I recently had an e-mail conversation with a chap called Martin Bateman at Operation Mobilisation who knows a 70’s/80’s Rugby star who is unfortunately ill with a brain tumour. This chap’s name is Maurice Colclough and he has a boat in South Africa which he wants to launch into the Lord’s work. There maybe someone in MST who could help deliver it back to the UK… If not it may certainly be something we should support if not help directly. If you could circulate a couple of documents around the membership I would be most grateful.”
Although busy with ‘Genevieve Challenge’ in Greece, I made contact to see if there was anything I could do.
I am involved with the healing ministry ‘Wholeness Through Christ’, that offers Christian counselling at peaceful places throughout England and abroad. Widespread prayer in more than one country begins a month before, during the retreat, and for about a month afterwards for each location. Those attending take it in turns to receive ministry from 2 or 3 others in private groups, whilst the others pray in the main room. All those praying, wherever they may be, send any words of knowledge or pictures to the ministry groups. I believe it is the power of prayer that makes this the most effective of healing ministries with frequent miracles. Thanks be to God.
Since I left ‘Genevieve Challenge’, a number of people wrote to me, outraged by the way I was treated. However, a long-term missionary friend said it was not unusual, in his experience, for those serving the Lord to be treated in such a way. I do not believe that the reasons given to me were the real reasons. It is human for people to react in certain ways, which I feel can best be explained by the following story: –