Isle of Wight - June 2023 - Prayer information page

Welcome to the prayer information page for my outreach tour of the Isle of Wight. Below you’ll find the vision and background to this trip, my itinerary and schedule to help guide you as you pray. Thank you so much for your prayer support. It is vital.

Background to the tour

Here is a video which was sent out to church leaders across the Isle of Wight in partnership with Lionheart Festival - a Christian music festival me and the band are playing on the island in July.

It outlines the vision behind this week’s tour. The picture was confirmed whilst I was on the island. It was a picture many on the island had heard previously.

The vision and prayer points

In short the vision of this week is to worship and invite people to know Jesus in partnership with the Wight Church Network, churches and Lionheart Festival.

I will be sharing the Gospel at every event, inviting people to know Jesus, to follow Him, return to Him and to go further and deeper in their relationship if they already know Him.

The island is very open spiritually and not totally in a good way, so please pray for:

Our protection, health, provision, but above all for the clarity to hear and see God’s promptings clearly, so we can share His message as we worship Him and invite people to know Him.

Ultimately we need His power and presence and glory to fall at these events and for Him to have His way in people’s lives.

Please join me in praying for a tremendous number of souls to be saved, beyond our wildest dreams and expectations and for people to return to a relationship with Jesus. Also for His follower to be encouraged, inspired and set on fire once again to spread the Good News here and beyond in unity.

We pray people invite people to these events, when this has happened previously we know that people get saved.

This maybe the first step on the journey towards salvation for some people attending our events so please pray for Lionheart Festival (in July) and the partner churches - which we will be signposting people towards as an ideal follow-up event as well as partner churches.

Please uphold my parents Frank and Nancy Westall who are accompanying me on this mission in your prayers as well as my family, my wife Anna and children Isabella, Benjamin and Mattias who are coping without a car and without me for the next week or so.

If you get any words, scriptures etc whilst praying please WhatsApp or text me on 07712557320.

Thanks in advance, your role as a prayer partner is crucial - I cannot emphasise that enough - and greatly appreciated.

Below is the schedule which I’ll be updating as we go along.

The tour schedule

We are staying at a cottage which has been loaned to us by one of the members of the partner churches. I have been blessed with provision of a ferry ticket too and whilst this is nice and such an answer to prayer, it also encouraging to see God’s hand on this mission before we begin.

Sunday 4th June

8am - Depart Abergavenny

11.15am - Arrived in Portsmouth to catch the 12noon ferry, but caught the 1130am earlier ferry.

12.20 - Arrived in Fishbourne (Isle of Wight)

1300 lunch with Judith Compton, pastor of Cowes Baptist Church and her family.

1600 arrived at cottage and unpacked

Monday 5th June

A day of preparation, please pray that all tech prep etc goes smoothly as I have a lot to do today as well as some radio for Heartsong and UCB1. I am hoping to get some much needed chill time later and just sit on a beach ahead of a hectic schedule.

Tuesday 6th June

12noon arrive at Cowes Baptist Church for set up and rehearsal.

5pm Soundcheck

7pm - 9pm - Outreach event at Cowes Baptist Church.

Wednesday 7th June

School Assemblies at Christ the King College secondary school in Newport IOW.

10.50-11.20 - Yr 9, 10 & Sixth form
11.20-11.50 - Yr7&8

5pm - arrive at Ryde Elim ahead of Youth Meeting

8pm - Outreach event at Ryde Elim Church

Thursday 8th June

5pm - Arrive at Newport Congregational Church

7pm - outreach event at Newport Congregational Church

Friday 9th June

9am - Worship songwriting workshop at Christ the King College secondary school in Newport (periods 1-3).

5pm - arrive and set up at Shanklin United Reformed Church

7.30pm - outreach event at Shanklin URC

Saturday 10th June

4pm - arrive and set up at Ryde Methodist Church

6pm - outreach event at Ryde Methodist Church

Sunday 11th June

10am - leading worship & preaching at Ventnor Baptist Church

12noon - Preaching Gospel and singing songs at Ventnor Seafront band stand

7.30pm - Rylstone Gardens - leading worship at united church praise event

Monday 12th June

Day off

Tuesday 13th June

Colwell Baptist Church - 4pm

7pm ish Ferry Home & drive back to Abergavenny