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Claire Livingstone
Prayer letter Sep 09
That’s it folks….I am an official RELAY
worker for Dundee-there’s no going
back!! The past month seems to have
flown by so apologies for not getting in
Thanks… touch with you sooner. I am so
thankful for your prayers and support
Your support has been a reminder to me of Gods care and provision:
building his people together. I hope that my prayer letters will be an that have helped me along
encouragement to you, and a reminder of the impact you are making
my journey so far!
on the lives of students in Scotland. However, as I have emphasised in
my previous emails I want to be able to support you in anyway I can so
For those of you who I
please feel free to write, call or email at any point. haven’t kept up-to-date
with, you will be able to find
As the RELAY programme progresses I hope I will be able to share my blog page at
more with you of what I am learning –on both an academic level www.relayclaire.blogspot.com
(through my studies) and a practical level (in my placement with which will give you a bit of
Abertay CU) Yet in it all I pray we will keep our eyes fixed on Christ, an insight into what a
being reminded of the potential God has in each one of us to further RELAY worker actual is and
His Kingdom by sharing the reality of the gospel, confident that Jesus some of my thoughts before
Christ really brings good news to a world lost of hope, purpose and taking on the position.
direction! Beyond the bonnieland
As most of you know, I
began my training at the
end of august, setting sail
from Northern Ireland to
Dundee and travelling by
car to the Quinta Centre in
Wales to join the team of 69
relay workers across the
Uk. Praise God for this
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Back to what God has done
number and the
encouragement it brought to
know that anxieties and fears
over the year ahead were
being shared!
Eager to know what lay
ahead, I wanted to get down
to the practicalities but the
teaching took a different
approach. We were
challenged over what it
means to be a Christian:
looking again at how Jesus’
death on the cross transforms
our lives, beyond a one-time
acceptance into a day-to-day
basis. How it motivates us
and how we trust, believe and
know God sustains our future
to give us a hope and joy that
overflows to those around
who don’t know Him.

The Christian Unions
After our week of Relay training at
the end of August CU’s across the
UK were invited to a week long
conference called FORUM run by
UCCF.
900 students came (some brave
who camped in the mud and rain)
to receive teaching and training on
God’s Word: celebrating and
defending the truth of the gospel,
becoming urgent in evangelism,
passionate about unity and
motivated by grace, catching the
Dundee and Abertay
There are three RELAY workers
altogether in Dundee: my flatmate
Lizzie who works with the Art College;
James who is based with Dundee
University CU and myself, based with
Abertay University CU. As both James
and myself have previously been
Dundee students we are hoping
to be able to share a lot of our
time between the two universities
and boy/girl groups.
Abertay is a very small university
with only 20 in regular attendance
“For it is by grace you have been saved through faith-and this, not
from yourselves, it is the gift of God.”
vision of UCCF who
endeavour to give every
student an opportunity to
hear and respond to the
message of Jesus Christ.
to the CU compared to 120 at
Dundee CU.

Give thanks for the events
run by each of the CUs in
their Freshers weeks and for
the first year students who
came along.

Pray for their integration into
CU-to become part of the
mission team on campus!

Pray for the committees and
the CU programme that lies
ahead for the year
Ephesians 2v8
Living and Prayer in the
month ahead…
Speaking for Jesus Abertay CU as they continue
to study the book of
Philippians: How we can find
How does it all work out? our Joy in Life?
Our diaries have been quickly filling up 17/10/09
but what does my week look like? THE GO! DAY: A time to
unite CU’s across Scotland
Well…
for a Day of training and
teaching. (Held in Dundee)
Core Studies: These are doctrines of Pray for :
theology outlined for us in the course of - The staff/relay team who
the programme using Wayne Gruddem’s are co-ordinating it all
Systematic Theology that we have to - Practicalities involved in
spend 4 hours per week on numbers attending
Elective Study: This is something we 26/09/09  03/10/09
study that we choose for ourselves. This The PURE course
semester, I will be looking at Prayer: Training on sex and
discovering the purpose of it and how it
relationships God’s way
Pray for:
can be effective. - Mark and Joanne Ellis as
they lead this
The main focus’ for the year is that as we
learn we are able to pass on. This can be 23/10/09
done through building up one-to-one Houseparty…The Abertay
relationships with students: meeting and Dundee CU weekend
regularly to study the bible together; being away
accountable to how our lives point others Pray for:
to Christ and being dependant on God’s - Sam Alberry (the
speaker)
word to equip us to share it.
- Costs for students to
attend
• Pray that God would lead me to the - Teaching they will
right students to work with-there are receive on holiness,
so many girls to choose from-its not assurance, hope and
about picking favourites! mission
• Pray for my supervisors Mark and
Joanne: for the studies and 29/10/09
accountability time we have with one Scottish Staff/Relay Team
another each week Day