Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

(Matthew 19.26)

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We’ve recently returned from some time away, staying in North Wales, near a town called Bala, in the Snowdonia National Park. While I was there I saw a sign to the ‘Mary Jones Pilgrim Centre’ which was a church building which had been converted to what looked like a museum, dedicated to the life and legacy of Mary Jones. In 1800, after saving money for 6 years, this 15 year old girl walked 26 miles from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant to Bala to buy a Bible, a book she'd been longing to own for years. Her journey inspired the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which still exists today. It translates the Bible and makes it accessible to people in many languages. What started as the desire of one young poor girl who lived in a rural area, to learn more about God and the life and teaching of Jesus, was used by God to do amazing things, which over 200 years later still go on. I wonder, what is God placing on our hearts, which may be small to us, but in God’s hands can become something with a large and longstanding impact? Keep praying!

Rev’d Mark Anderson