50 books sold after coffee at M40 service station

It was good to meet Chris Wigram, the international director of the European Christian Mission, last week, for the first time.

We had a coffee at the Warwick Service Station on the M40 as I wanted to discuss a couple of ideas with him.

Firstly, we discussed how we could use my book, God’s Secret Listener, to promote ECM internationally and secondly to talk about translating the book into Portuguese so it could be used by ECM Brazil.

This was an idea by ECM missionary Stephen Bell, who is working in Croatia and has linked up with Brazil and Ukrainian churches that are helping him church plant in the Balkans by sending missionaries from their countries.

The idea is to let the Brazilians have the book at cost price so they can excite the churches there about missionary work in Europe and to use any profits from the project to help fund the workers.

If that goes well we would look at a Ukrainian edition.

So I was delighted to receive an email from Chris, pictured below, to say that three days later he had taken my book along to Northwood Hills Evangelical Church in Middlesex where he was preaching that Sunday and had sold all 20 of his books.

He had also met at the church a volunteer with Trans World Radio who had ordered a further 30 copies.

Fifty books sold – and all after a chat over coffee on the M40. Now Chris wants some more books.

Incidentally, Chris is an author as well with his latest book, The Bible and Mission in Faith Perspective about J Hudson Taylor and the Early China Inland Mission, published by Boekencentrum.

It is still not too late if you would like to order a signed copy of God’s Secret Listener, published by Lion/Hudson/Monarch for £6 including postage within the UK.

Email me at John@jbutterworth.plus.com to order your books.