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Raising the Bar
Saturday 28 March 2009
9.30 - 16.45
St David's Hall, Cardiff

The 2009 Cardiff Men’s convention was our sixth and it saw us stepping up a gear!

It was a fantastic day with more than 1000 men from all over Wales and across the border.

The first class teaching spoke to men's hearts.  The sense of fellowship and gathering together in seminars and round table sessions was brilliant.

The sessions, currently unedited (with music cut) are available immediately as mp3 audio downloads:

• Session 1:  Introductions & RT Kendall:
  "Joseph (1)"
  [File Size 14Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Introduction	0m 00s to 5m 39s
  VideoClip	5m 40s to 9m 40s
  Response, Prayers	9m 40s to 12m 40s
  Introduction	12m 49s to 15m 47s
  RT Kendall	15m 47s to 57m 26s

  
  
• Session 1:  Prayers, Seminars/Round Table Topic Overview
  (File Size 3Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Prayers	0m 00s to 1m 20s
  Topics	1m 20s to 7m 00s
  Silence	7m 00s to 9m 35s

  
  
• Session 2:  VideoClip, Lyndon Bowring "Testimony"
  [File Size 11Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Silence	0m 00s to 0m 18s
  VideoClip	0m 19s to 2m 30s
  Introductions	2m 36s to 3m 36s
  Interview	3m 37s to 6m 16s
  Lyndon Bowring	6m 17s to 47m 01s

  
  
• Session 3:  R T Kendall:
  "Ten things every Christian Should Know"
  [File Size 8Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  R T Kendall

  00m 00s to 32m 29s

  
  
• Session 4:  Lyndon Bowring:
  "Money, Sex and Power
  [File Size 8Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Introductions	0m 00s to 1m 47s
  Lyndon Bowring	1m 55s to 31m 32s

  
  
• Session 5:  Introduction, VideoClip,
  Richard Taylor: "Where's Your Ladder?"
  [File Size 10Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Introduction	0m 00s to 0m 45s
  VideoClip	0m 50s to 4m 55s
  Introductions	4m 56s to 9m 15s
  Richard Taylor	9m 15s to 41m 54s

  
  
• Session 5:  Prayers
  [File Size 1Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Prayers

  0m 00s to 4m 15s

  
  

• Session 6:  RT Kendall "Joseph (2)"
  & Closing Prayers
  [File Size 11Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Prayers	0m 00s to 1m 40s
  R T Kendall	1m 45s to 44m 55s

  
  

• Hymn:  O for a thousand tongues to sing
  [File Size 2Mb - to save to disk use right-click]

  Accompanied	0m 00s to 2m 47s
  Unaccompanied	2m 48s to 3m 15s
  Accompanied	3m 15s to 5m 10s

   

We moved to the St David’s Hall so that we could fit in more men but we have been stepping things up in a spiritual sense too. The theme: ‘Raising the Bar’ reflected that. The teaching focused on the story of Joseph – a man who had it all, lost everything and with God’s help spectacularly rebuilt his life and changed the world!

Our hope is that all of us who attended this convention have been challenged to look again at the goals we set and the expectations we have in our own Christian walk – and to believe that we serve a God “..who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,”. We had outstanding teaching and testimony from RT Kendall, Lyndon Bowring, and Richard Taylor and glad that more than 1000 men joined us for a day that challenged, inspired and we pray will be transforming every man there.

Chris Street and Simeon Baker
Convention Steering Group

Dr. R. T. Kendall was minister of Westminster Chapel, London, for exactly 25 years. He is the author of 50 books, travels all over the world and continues a ministry of writing. He and his wife Louise now reside in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lyndon Bowring is Executive Chairman of Care a mainstream Christian charity. CARE seeks to make a Christian difference by undertaking a variety of social, caring and educational programmes as well as research and lobbying on associated issues, to matters of public policy and education. Lyndon was born in Wales, studied at the London Bible College and lives in London with his wife Celia, a writer and speaker. They have three children Daniel, Emma and Andrew.

Richard Taylor is an author, motivational speaker and pastor and is the founder of the charity ‘Gateway Foundation’ which aims to help ex-offenders and drug addicts. He has also appeared on radio and TV crime programmes as an expert guest. His autobiography ‘To Catch a Thief’ tells how as a young man from South Wales his life was transformed by the power of the gospel. Richard is married to Jill and they have three sons: Joshua, Caleb and Jacob.