July 2026
March-April '26: Planting, Watering, Laboring.
17/07/26
Please accept my apologies. Things got busy and I realised that I had never emailed my previous letter from March-April 2026. So as not to confuse prayer letters, I will be sending my more recent one (May-June) in the next couple weeks. Once the next letter is sent, this PDF will no longer be available for download, and the photo album will no longer be available for viewing. Thank you for your patience, sorry for the inconvenience, and may the Lord bless your ministry for Him. -Bro. Keith
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Written: May 2026
Covering: March-April 2026
I am grateful for the time you are taking to read our recent prayer letter, ands I pray it will bee a blessing and encouragement knowing how the Lord is working on the Emerald Isle. We have has some amazing things happen this May, but since this one is covering what the Lord did in March and April you will have to wait for the next letter.
March – This is always an eventful month in Ireland with Mother’s Day and Saint Patricks Day. This year for Mother’s Day we used the Facebook advertising system that we used at Christmas, and this time I only advertised a week in advance. The result was that we ended up with seven visitors coming for the event, as well as seven new WhatsApp contacts. Even though I advertised for a luncheon afterward, they all ended up having to leave, but we were able to honour them with a small gift as well as visitor packets. One of the ladies came back the next Sunday, and we ended up having a church group of 16 people from Georgia, who were passing through and came to our services in the morning. It was a great blessing and filled the room with singing and praise.
On the Tuesday after mothers day, we also went into the Limerick City centre to give out Saint Patrick gospel tracts and Bibles at the parade. It is usually just our family, but this year we also had a teenage girl enthusiastically come out with us. We ended up giving away 21 Bibles that day, and hundreds of Saint Patrick gospel tracts. Afterward, we went to a Thai restaurant and then stopped at McDonalds for shamrock shakes. The whole month the kids were also practicing different things they were planning to do for the First Fruits convention that a sister church holds in May, in a town north of Dublin called Drogheda (Draw-ha-dah). The First Fruits convention was an idea to give the youth across Ireland an opportunity to use their talents and abilities for the Lord. It is not a competition, but they do get assessed by adults who encourage them and give ways that they can improve. It is the 3rd or 4th year and it has been a real encouragement to the youth and families. At the end of the month, the teen started practicing 2x a week to prepare. Kelly also brought the ladies to a ladies meeting and had a delightful time at a sister church in Lucan, Co. Dublin, near the end of the month.
April – This month began with our resurrection Sunday event which we advertised for on Facebook, but this time we didn’t have as many people come, but we did have one local Irish man who visited, and discovered afterward that he has been a Mormon for 40 years. He was not looking to change but he got a clear presentation gospel, and we sent him away with our visitor packet as well. The next day we left for a trip to Romania for a Youth Conference at The Baptist College International. I was trying to encourage our Romanian members to go as well, but they were not able to afford it.
I was really not able either, because the tickets were expensive, but I had already bought them before I found out, and thankfully the Lord need up providing the difference as well. Some of the reasons I was also going was to see the college, for the boys to see the college, for them to experience another culture from Ireland, and to see what it is like not knowing the language. It was a great conference and there were English, Romanian, Greek, Russian and Ukrainian speaking people there. We sang in different languages and there we’re translators as well for the messages, The kids had a great time playing with the others, even though they couldn’t understand each other. Kelly and I also got to teach the kids during different sessions. We have one teenage girl in the church who goes to a public school, and Kelly has had a burden for her to get to fellowship with other young ladies. We talked and prayed about it and she started taking our small group of teens out on Saturday to help a different church in Ireland once a month with their evangelistic outreaches, for fellowship and outreach. 
The first church they went to was three hours away in Drogheda (Draw-ha-dah). On Friday the 24th, Pastor Canavan brought a visiting church group down from Galway to Limerick for three hours of evangelism in the mid day, giving out Bibles, tracts, and talking to people about the gospel. We ended up giving away 17 Bibles in addition to hundreds of gospel tracts. Also during this month we had a new family start coming regularly who moved to Ireland from Singapore, but they are originally from the Philippines. They have gone to Independent Baptist Churches and hold to sound doctrine, so it is wonderful to have them in the services. We also started a 10:30 discipleship class and it has been growing over the weeks.
Soul Winning – We continue getting the gospel out each Saturday, but going out on the street for the Saint Patricks Day parade, and when the church group came down, presented many new opportunities with interested people approaching myself and the others with regard to the Bible. People were delighted and curious as to why we would be just giving away the Bible. One lady said that she had recently gone to buy one at the Catholic Church but it cost €70 that she didn’t have. She got the Bible and the gospel before she left. I also made contact with some people I had not seen in a while as well. It was a great opportunity to chat with many people about their souls and to tell them about Gods free gift of salvation. Please pray for fruit. There is another Baptist church in the area that uses the NIV and one of the members has been opposed to giving that Bible to people, telling us that people can’t understand it. Our new family said they are giving away NIVs on the weekends.
Please pray for these needs:
1. Co-laborers in Limerick
2. Protection over the ministry
3. A new building in the city
4. Guidance and wisdom moving forward
Last, I want to thank those who graciously sent encouraging emails, letters, birthday gifts, and offerings and for your faithful prayers and support.
For the souls in Ireland,
Keith Hamilton
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Written: May 2026
Covering: March-April 2026
I am grateful for the time you are taking to read our recent prayer letter, ands I pray it will bee a blessing and encouragement knowing how the Lord is working on the Emerald Isle. We have has some amazing things happen this May, but since this one is covering what the Lord did in March and April you will have to wait for the next letter.
March – This is always an eventful month in Ireland with Mother’s Day and Saint Patricks Day. This year for Mother’s Day we used the Facebook advertising system that we used at Christmas, and this time I only advertised a week in advance. The result was that we ended up with seven visitors coming for the event, as well as seven new WhatsApp contacts. Even though I advertised for a luncheon afterward, they all ended up having to leave, but we were able to honour them with a small gift as well as visitor packets. One of the ladies came back the next Sunday, and we ended up having a church group of 16 people from Georgia, who were passing through and came to our services in the morning. It was a great blessing and filled the room with singing and praise.
April – This month began with our resurrection Sunday event which we advertised for on Facebook, but this time we didn’t have as many people come, but we did have one local Irish man who visited, and discovered afterward that he has been a Mormon for 40 years. He was not looking to change but he got a clear presentation gospel, and we sent him away with our visitor packet as well. The next day we left for a trip to Romania for a Youth Conference at The Baptist College International. I was trying to encourage our Romanian members to go as well, but they were not able to afford it.
Soul Winning – We continue getting the gospel out each Saturday, but going out on the street for the Saint Patricks Day parade, and when the church group came down, presented many new opportunities with interested people approaching myself and the others with regard to the Bible. People were delighted and curious as to why we would be just giving away the Bible. One lady said that she had recently gone to buy one at the Catholic Church but it cost €70 that she didn’t have. She got the Bible and the gospel before she left. I also made contact with some people I had not seen in a while as well. It was a great opportunity to chat with many people about their souls and to tell them about Gods free gift of salvation. Please pray for fruit. There is another Baptist church in the area that uses the NIV and one of the members has been opposed to giving that Bible to people, telling us that people can’t understand it. Our new family said they are giving away NIVs on the weekends.
Please pray for these needs:
1. Co-laborers in Limerick
2. Protection over the ministry
3. A new building in the city
4. Guidance and wisdom moving forward
Last, I want to thank those who graciously sent encouraging emails, letters, birthday gifts, and offerings and for your faithful prayers and support.
For the souls in Ireland,
Keith Hamilton
