Isles of Scilly based facebook page Scillonians & Ex Islander

The truth is our finest moments in Gods grace our most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only then in such moments propelled by our discomfort that we are likely in Gods power to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

There are 4 things you can never recover: The stone..after the throw. The word..after it's said. The occasion..after it's missed. The time..after it's gone

Welcome to my home page davepender.co.uk
This site has been created to record my journey of faith here in the beautiful Isles of Scilly after ten years of outcast spiritual wilderness .It records how my faith in our creator came to be restored by the love that is to be found here in our island based Methodist church. I lost my religion but our Lord and his true modern day disciples held my faith together even in the darkest period of my life.

OUR LORD JESUS CHIRST WORKING IN ME I feel it essential that this opening passage be included in my home page although of a deeply personal nature it is my personal witness to the healing powers of Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour and if just one person draws inspiration from these words then they will not have been printed in vain.

Believe me I was in the wilderness cast out by Jehovah Witnesses who had even attempted to divide and break my connections with my own mother (unsuccessfully) My feeling of abandonment as I had been informed God had given up on me led to alcohol abuse a troubled marriage to a non believer yet through all this there were members of the Methodist Church who refused to give up on me the Methodist church has a mission policy that no one is beyond redemption. I started attending the Methodist chapel in August of 2010 after I had received a personal witness from 3 completely different people in one week of various faiths letting it be known I just wanted to sit at the back and oh by the way please don’t bother me to much because I’m not really worth Gods grace but our beautiful Lord had other ideas for me. In January of 2011 I joined a home study group and as I made spiritual progress I really knew our beautiful Lord was blessing my efforts to come home.The one thing I’ve learnt about our heavenly father is he wont tolerate evil in this world without letting it go un pronounced you doubters will have to wait and see but please remember these words you want to go and do stupid stuff it will greave him but when you come to your senses you will have paid the price but he will welcome you home with his arms wide open my love of God is deeper than it has ever been.Easter 2011 has been truly felt at heart and I am sure will stay with me well into eternity I truly believe Jesus died for me to wash my sins that he has been raised to take his appointed heavenly position I spent hours dwelling upon our local cross and taking photos at various stages of daylight sunset and sunrise I had been given the privilege to carry the cross around the streets of our local island town were I had previously been known as a character fond of a tipple who at one time experienced a homeless phase. Words can never convey the feeling of coming home in the same way works cannot guarantee being saved but there is a feeling in my heart of such amazing thanks to the power of saving grace of our lord that as I sit with my congregational family and sing hymns such as Thine be the glory my eyes whelm with tears I don’t care who comes across this its my personal witness that Jesus lives in our hearts today and that certain members of my new Methodist family have always stood by me no matter what has happened in the background praise our lord for he lives I know he lives and Is not exclusive to any sect but open to all who call upon his name in faith and repentance.

During May 2011 God willing I am to become a confirmed Methodist here in my Island home Gods love has taken me from this satanic world were In times of my deepest trouble I dint care if I lived or died restored my relationship with my ageing mother who is being confirmed at the same time as my dedication and made me complete in the risen Lord Jesus Christ now blessed with a beautiful congregation family praise the Lord for he is so very much alive in our hearts today Psalm 84.

Ten years later via means of Gods love and his channel of Methodist worship with a mission statement that no soul is beyond redeeming I am now really feeling the benefits of Gods love back in my life and forgiveness of ever becoming involved with a sect founded by man claiming to represent Gods kingdom here on earth Who try to rule their flock by fear and ingrain into their soul they can never sit comfortably in place anywhere else.The Watchtower and its partner magazine awake are constantly changing their line of thought and have been second guessing the time of the 2nd coming since the mid 70's purely because they rely on the governing body appointed at the time (MAN)even the Jehovah Witness book of Revelation holds a disclaimer on the first couple of pages. GODS PURPOSE HAS NEVER CHANGED AND NEVER WILL ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN HIS APOINTED TIME IT WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT COME LORD JESUS AMEN. This site will serve as my online diary and blog as to how Methodist worship is working in my life and the joy it is bringing.

For those of you who have come across my site via internet browsing the Isles of Scilly are a small group of Islands just off the Cornish coast twenty eight miles south west of lands end UK.