Richard Baxter, Pastor for Outreach, Carey Baptist Church, Reading writes:
Here in Reading, we recently welcomed more than 90,000 music fans to Reading Festival – an annual music event, originally known in the 1960s as the National Jazz Festival. With such an influx each year, we at Carey Baptist Church want to do something to serve some of them and to speak to them of Jesus.
Showing Love, Speaking Jesus is the strapline for our church outreach and we try to do this in all we do. Ordinarily, that would be shown in three main ways at the festival:
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