Breakfast Talks 2009

	Wyn began with a brief biography of his life, his mum had named him after the wartime band leader Wynford Reynolds of 'Music while you Work'. Whilst growing up he was teased about his name but as an adult he finds himself led to preaching at a Winsford Church. On retirement he retrained as a Bible Explorer presenter based on the American "Walk Thru the Bible" concept. It involves him in a series of 20 one hour sessions for KS2 5&6 (9-11 year old children). His area covers the primary schools of Congleton, Kidsgrove and some of Tunstall. It features the entire Bible both the old and new Testament incorporating the main stories such as The Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel and David and Goliath. Finally he gave an example from St Luke of the story of Simeon and the meeting with the 8 day old Jesus in the Temple. Simeon he told us meaning 'hearing', i.e. listening to God. Here his Pentecostal background started to show and he demonstrated a strong simple message which was very powerful to any audience. A donation was made to an Ethiopian charity chosen by Wyn.

In a form of symmetry this session of talks opened and closed with Rwanda. Judith Goodburn gave us a humbling talk about her visit for Christian Aid a couple of years ago. Highlighting the fact that not enormous sums are required but just a few pence per head are able to transform lives. She stressed that visits are self-funded and that all the monies go to the charities rather than government. Rural Rwandan people have so very little that everything is recycled, tin cans are transformed into funnels and cooking utensils, labels used as notepaper, plastic bottles for oil storage. They use what they can grow; plantain leaves for cleaning, footballs and hats, sisal plants to make ropes. Always welcoming, many villages had never seen Europeans before. Most tourists are American visiting the eastern highland forests to see only the gorillas. A donation was made to Christian Aid.