Last year I began to write about the fact that I could see a progression toward a time coming when the Bible will be declared illegal in the UK. Believe you me, I will be only too happy to be proved wrong on this, but what I see is that the evidence actually supports the idea that we are moving toward the time when the Bible will be illegal.

Just this week, (15th August 2009), The Telegraph carried a report about a street preacher being threatened with arrest for reading the Bible in public.

Miguel Hayworth and his Father were reading out the Bible and handing out tracts in Manchester, when he says that:

“I was approached on more than one occasion by several police officers who falsely accused me, stating that I was inciting hatred with homophobic and racial comments,”

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OK, So she is Deborah 14 now and it is Deborah, Kirsty and myself who are going, but I am having trouble with thinking of a better title!

It is here, today is the day we leave for America… well for Christchurch, Dorset, but we are on our way and by about 6:30 am Monday 24th we will be on our way to Heathrow Airport and from there to Los Angeles. And the Drapper trip to the USA will be underway.

As a result of the documentary we will be crossing the pond to meet with some amazing, godly people and meet some of the best trainers in evangelism, hoping to return with new motivation, better skills and more confidence to share our faith.

So just what are we going to be doing?

We will try to keep you up to date through Tweets on Twitter which you can see in the sidebar on the left, or you can follow us on Twitter. But to give you an idea here is an outline of our itenary.

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Manuel and Mariya Brambila have invited Deborah and her family to visit them in Cannes, in the south of France. We will in fact only be taking a few of the Drappers. Joel, (16), Deborah, (14), Kirsty, (12), and Cornelius, (10), will be going with me, Dad, (over 21).

We have been asked to speak on the Friday evening on ‘Evangelism’ with a special emphasis on teaching young people to have the courage to get up and stand up for Jesus.

On Saturday afternoon we will be addressing ‘How to raise godly children’.

We will be staying at Manuel and Mariya Brambila’s hotel the Hotel Alexandre III

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