Ministry visit for Independent Methodist Church

A special Ministry Visit will take place at Newbuildings Independent Methodist Church tomorrow, Thursday, at 8pm.

Cecil Andrews, of Take Heed Ministries, will be the guest speaker.

Cecil was converted to Christ on August 19, 1984 and Take Heed came into being after that, when he moved house to live in Carryduff.

There he met a Christian called Jim McCormick.

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“Jim was in the process of establishing a formal base for his ministry which up until then had been run from his home. Premises were planned for a piece of land situated close to what was the well-known shopping centre Supermac and as the opening approached Jim asked me to do deputation work on behalf of the soon to be opened building to be known as the Breda Centre. The Centre was formally opened in September 1988 and although the intention was that most of the speaking engagements would be carried out by Jim I was able on a few occasions as my own knowledge of groups increased to speak at meetings.

“Sadly for all connected with Breda the Lord called Jim home to glory on August 17, 1989 and he was actually buried on my spiritual birthday. A few months later I left secular employment to serve the Lord full-time and after a period of waiting on Him I was led to establish Take Heed Ministries on 1st September 1990 based on the Lord’s warning ‘take heed that no man deceive you’ Matthew 24:4.

“As the work of Take Heed was similar in a number of areas to that of the Breda Centre I met with the trustees of Breda and arranged to spend a portion of my time working each week along with Breda in a role that developed into what might be termed a cult-consultant. That was the situation until March 1999 when, due to the workload of Take Heed I relinquished my role with Breda to devote all my time to Take Heed. I am grateful for the help and support given to me by all at Breda.

“The work carried on at Take Heed has evolved over the years into a number of differing strands of ministry such as lectures on cults, overseas opportunities, hosting visiting speakers, resource materials, and our ministry newsletter ‘News from the Front’. The ‘spirit’ of the present age could be summed up as one of ‘tolerance at the expense of truth’. Our prayer is that we shall be kept from that and, because ‘we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts’ (1 Thessalonians 2:4).”