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Ministry Update: Update from the Snodes in London

We had another busy but blessed week. Here is a brief overview: Building: We are still working on various things for the new building such as: signage, new literature with our new address, and other small repair jobs around the building. We had a great time at our workday on Saturday morning cleaning more. It has been so […]

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Ministry Update: First Services in New Building, Trip to Northern Ireland

Our first Sunday (8 Feb) in our new building went very well. We had 34 people total with 8 first-time visitors. Some people from other churches came to support us and several came from the same street at the church. They were encouraged to see this building being opened back up for Christian work. Chris […]

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Travis Snode Prayer - February 1, 2022

Dear Pastors & Praying Friends, After four months of effort, we finished distributing gospel literature to every one of the 23,000 homes in the area around the church! Now we are hoping to go back and knock on many of those same doors and try to speak to the people. Please pray for God to […]

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Ministry Update: Leaflet Campaign Finished, Youth Work, Building Move-in Date

With the holidays over and the winter weather, we have certainly experienced things slowing down with some of our regulars not coming as much and less visitors. But that is to be expected this time of year. We have started back up our Saturday youth ministry, and it is encouraging to see Josh, Joel, and […]

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Snode Prayer Letter - January 1, 2022

Dear Pastors & Praying Friends, The month of December began with our church hosting a stall at a festival run by the local library. We gave out 150 bags with candy and literature from the church. We had 74 families sign up for a free Christmas basket filled with snacks/food. All of them gave us […]

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Ministry Update: Winter Festival Report, Move-in Date for Building, Prayer Requests

Thank you for your continued prayers for us and the work here in the UK. Here are a few updates and prayer requests: Building: The London City Mission has accepted our proposal for renting the building, and we are planning to move into the Churchdown Centre (60 Churchdown, London, BR1 5PQ) on 1 February 2015! We are very excited […]

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Ministry Update: Evangelism Update, Youth Work, Winter Festival

Thank you for your continued prayers for us and the work here in the UK. Here are a few updates and prayer requests: Building: We are still waiting to hear back from LCM about our proposal of what we can pay to rent the building. Once we do, we hope to get a date for when […]

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Snode Prayer Letter - December 1, 2021

Dear Pastors & Praying Friends, We are now about three months into the church plant in Downham. In the month of November, we had another nine first-time visitors. Several of those who visited were the friends and family of those who already attend the church. It is great when people are so excited about what […]

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Ministry Update: Special Meeting about Building, More Visitors

Tomorrow afternoon, John and I will head up to the headquarters of  London City Mission to discuss the possibility of using one of their vacant buildings as the more permanent home of Downham Baptist Church. Please pray for this meeting, as we will be discussing the particulars of using this building for the church. It […]

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Ministry Update: Mission conference, Two more visitors, Youth meeting

Chris and I had the privilege to preach a mission conference at Chelsea Community Baptist Church at the end of October. The goal of the conference was to stir up the church to get involved in local and overseas mission work. We preached on “What is missions?”, “Where is Missions?”, and “How can I be involved in […]

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