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Tiny Tunes - God's Amazing Grace
09-05-2008 | Christchurch Blog | Evangelism | Tiny Tunes »
As a pastor I receive a lot of emails and letters. Some trying to sell me things, some telling me of challenges and concerns that need immediate decisions, and some that are more report based. My favourites though are the ones that cause your soul to jump as you consider the goodness of God behind the words that you're reading, and just recently I received a letter from Amanda Nicholson that did just that!

You see just a few months ago Amanda shared with me her growing desire to see something of a befriending evangelistic nature taking place where she lives, in Rhiwbina, Cardiff. At that time it was unclear what might work but after many conversations between Amanda and her friends, Tiny Tunes was chosen as the new initiative, to take place in Beaulah Hall every friday morning. This initiative was to be a music-based mother and toddlers, where young children could come and play, and the mums could come and chat over tea and coffee, giving our helpers a chance not only to serve these ladies with the morning, but to befriend them with a keen desire to 'do life' with them and over time, 'share the gospel' with them.

Well we're a few weeks in to 'Tiny Tunes' now and it's with that in mind that Amanda writes....

'The group has met twice so far and God really has blessed us in so many ways already. The first Friday we met we had 23 children and 21 adults. The morning ran so smoothly and we received very positive feedback and were able to share with several folk that our local church in Newport was funding the whole thing and explain why.

With the numbers being so high, Margaret Collins (the secretary at Beulah) then rang me to discuss her concern about health and safety issues regarding the 'parking lot' of buggies left in the entrance hall. By the kindness of God her suggestion to resolve the buggies blocking access in the corridor was to let us have the larger main hall for 'Tiny Tunes' and the original smaller room we originally rented to store all the buggies and strollers. This meant two rooms for more than one hour for the same price! I stand amazed when people comment that getting a room at Beulah is like finding a pot of treasure at the end of a rainbow - very unlikely. A very popular venue, because it is so central and accessible, and yet God has blessed us with it, at an incredibly low cost.

The numbers then the second week mushroomed again (as you might expect) and we had 40 children and 37 adults. We had to improvise on the morning because the numbers had grown so much... but isn't God good!'

Amanda, this is great news! Thank you so much, along with the whole Tiny Tunes team, for making this happen. Your keen desire to see the gospel go out to folk in your community is a joy to see, and by God's grace would He bring glorious fruit to the labours of you hands... what wonderful news this really is, and so thank you for the letter!
Dave Taylor