They were so excited that God wanted to use them in some way. They moved across the Irish Sea to Cheshire in England and spent 3 years training and learning Gods Word. Kenny said, “During these three years we didn’t know what the Lord had planned for us, we just enjoyed every minute of this great experience.” One thing they wanted was to take the “Good News” to people who had never heard it before, and give them new life as The Lord had given them.
“We had heard about Language Recordings through close friends and at the end of our time at Bible College we joined Language Recordings UK and moved down to the UK office in High Wycombe, near London .” The vision of reaching out to those in their own language really appealed to them.
 Kenny trained as a recordist in Nepal and the whole learning experience really challenged him, where he met people who had never heard the name of Jesus before. He did his 12 week training with his close friend David McKechnie. It was so exciting and thrilling to learn the skills of a recordist, to meet so many new people and to experience living in a new culture. One of the highlights was hiking in the mountains and visiting remote peoples groups.
After the recordist training was finished we began recording from our base at the UK office. In those days we were still using the Nagra Recorder and had fun with the editing process. Soon we progressed to new recording equipment and started editing work on new digital recorders and editing on computer. We were able to make lots of new recordings with foreign language speakers living or visiting the UK .
 Later, Kenny & Joan travelled to various countries doing recordingsin many languages. Everywherethey went they fell in love with the people and were so blessed to spend time with so many other folk from different language groups. In the year 2000 they headed of to Papua New Guinea to work there for almost 3 years. They worked from a Bible College complex and met lots of students from every part of PNG. We were encouraged by a reading from Ps139 which said, “If I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will hold me fast.” This encouraged us to know God looks after us no matter what part of the world we travel to.
After the most wonderful time working and serving in Papua New Guinea they came back to Northern Ireland and commenced their recording work in Eastern Europe again and also promoted the work of the mission in the UK . Around this time their son and daughter had both met their future partners and got married and are now all in full time Christian ministry.
In March 2007 The UK Board suggested that Kenny & Joan move back to the UK office to oversee the work yet still continue with their recording programs. This they have done and are really enjoying being here again in High Wycombe , the place where the Lord has called them to be. Jim and Irene had successfully led the work of LRUK for 10 years. Kenny said, “we are so thrilled, excited and encouraged to see our recordings, flip-charts and booklets going out each week around the world.” We want more people to know about the “precious treasures” we have available to reach the lost.
 We so thankful that we have a great Board for the work of the Mission and they are a lovely team to work and partner with. They meet and oversee the work and encourage and administer wisdom into many situations. We are so grateful to them for their prayers, support and commitment. We also have some brilliant volunteer workers who come in faithfully every week. Peter and Anne have been serving the work here for many years and are always so enthusiastic. They simply love to serve in the Lord’s work. They are a great encouragement to the rest of us.
We are also grateful to John Taylor who puts together our bi-monthly Prayer Guide contents and we appreciate his input and prayer network support.
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Steve Taylor has given the work a big leap forward by setting up and maintaining our web site which receives hits from around the world each week. This has given us the work a new window to the world…Praise The Lord.
Kenny concludes, ”Everywhere we have gone we have known the Lords leading, blessing and encouragement and are so excited about what He has planned for us and the work of Language Recordings UK in the future”.
We as a Mission continue to Praise the Lord everyday for His goodness to each one of us and our families and for His blessing in this great and unique ministry. Thank you for your prayerful and financial support and encouragement. We are all in the same team as we partner together to see souls into The Kingdom…. God Bless You. |
