We are hoping to bring displays of Above Rubies magazines and products to suitable seminars in the UK and Europe. Please contact us if you are organising an event you would like us to come to, or there is an event in your area where you would like to see us.

NATIONAL CRE at Esher, Surrey

At this four day event, there were around 12,000 visitors this year. We have booked a stand for 2009. We will post more information nearer the time. 

CHRISTIAN RESOURCES EXHIBITION, HARROGATE. We were at this exhibition in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and so were Colin and Nancy Campbell! They were with us on the stand for the first two days. We gave away around 1200 magazines, and had many significant conversations. Some of the people who took Above Rubies away represented cathedrals and large groups of churches. Please pray that Above Rubies will find favour in these places, and will be distributed to their contacts.

TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIRST EUROPEAN LADIES RETREAT IN SUSSEX, ENGLAND, OCTOBER 2008

The first Above Rubies European Ladies Retreat was a wonderful time of fellowship and teaching, a life changing experience for those who were able to attend. Most of it was recorded, and is now available as a four set CD teaching series called "Shepherding our Flock" (see Bookstore and Products). The following are some of the testimonies we received from the delegates:

"I found the retreat to be wonderful. It was an honour to meet Nancy, after having grown so much spiritually and having the Truth revealed through Above Rubies teaching. I have a renewed sense of purpose as a mother and wife and Nancy has again helped me to be able to say, "I love being a mother!". If you get a chance to go and see Nancy, or go to next year's retreat - then GO! You will be challenged, enlightened and above all encouraged and uplifted. Thanks Nancy and Katy and Alice for the amazing retreat." - Michaela

"Thank you (and Katy) again for your wonderful commitment and sheer hard work - the retreat was literally life changing for me and my husband . " - Maisy

" The Above Rubies Retreat was for me a truly life-changing experience! Nancy Campbell is a very gifted and anointed speaker, but she is also a lovely person, full of warmth, gentleness and humour. I would love to have her as an honorary Mum! Since coming home I've had the flu, so the full effect of what I've learnt is still to be seen, but I am definitely more gentle with the children and more attentive to their individual needs. The venue, especially the food, was fantastic! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!" - Birgitte

"The weekend at Annan Court was wonderful. I came away feeling so blessed, uplifted, encouraged and more equipped as a mother in our high calling to raise Godly children. It was a privilage to meet Nancy. She is such a
Godly lady and a great mentor. Thanks to all of you who came and made it a special time of sharing." - Dee

" It was great to attend the first European Ladies Retreat, and to meet with other like minded women who viewed children as a blessing rather than a burden. I came away encouraged and uplifted more focused on my role as a wife and mother and the children and my husband have benefited since we arrived home." - Sarah   

"A Journey - Tara

 I was standing on top of that mountain admiring the view. It was a gorgeous day. The view was awesome. A perfect moment, one I shall treasure forever, my miracle. But then something came along and hit me from behind, what it was and where it came from I had no time to tell. I was falling, falling, tumbling hard and fast, trying to grip onto something that would stop the fall, but I was falling so fast I couldn’t get a firm hold of anything. I hurt so badly, the pain was unbearable. Eventually the falling stopped and I found myself in a gravel scree at the bottom of the mountain. The view was awful from here, it was cold and dark, so dark it wrapped around like a thick sea mist that won’t clear. The gravel bit into everywhere penetrating all the wounds and opening them up and poisoning them with their filth. I was paralysed, unable to move in fear of aggravating the wounds or for falling into something worse. A part of me died that day but I knew I must get out of this place for me to be restored. But all I could manage was a feeble “help!” Up above me the mountain towered, the mountain road dotted with cars. Not long ago I’d been in one of those cars and admired the view from the top. But now it seemed so far away, and my feeble help fell on deaf ears. How I longed to be back there. I waited and waited and when it all seemed hopeless the fog momentarily parted and I saw Him standing there on top of the mountain. I cried out in pain “Help me please!” But He didn’t reply and His presence was veiled again with the fog. I was desperate; I tried to scrabble around in the gravel to get to higher ground. But the more I tried the deeper I sank. Dark thoughts invaded my head. What if this is where I’m meant to stay? I could feel myself being dragged into this pit, further and further away from the light. “Lord, take me, but don’t let me go down here” I cried. I collapsed tired and broken. I could do no more. I awoke, feeling exhausted. The darkness penetrating into my soul, but there was something else, instead of being pulled downwards; it was as if an army of unseen hands were lifting me up. I used this unseen force to reach higher, slowly and painfully I reached out higher and higher, I was pushed gabbing onto anything that seemed vaigely secure. I made my way up onto a grassy rocky slope. If it had not been for those unseen hands I could not have reached here. There was my Jesus, still on top of the mountain “Help me Lord!” again I begged. “How do I get back to you?” “I don’t know what to do?” Still silence. The cars continued to make their way up the mountain road, oblivious to my cries for help. Oh how I longed to get back in the car and embrace Jesus. But fear enveloped me what if this were to happen again, do I want to travel this road again? But for now He seemed so distant and remote. “You could have saved me!” I shouted, “Why have you left me to die?” Then a knowing look, so loving, peaceful and beautiful that didn’t need any words to convey its meaning, that assured me He had felt all my pain and that I was not dead but most definitely alive, and I knew it was true. But how to move on from here, I was clinging by my fingertips to the grassy mountainside my feet frozen in position on the rock for fear that one move would leave me slipping back into that dark place. I could feel its presence crawling up and reaching for my feet willing me to slip and fall back into its grip. “Lord what do I do? I can’t see how to move from here, I’m trapped!” And then He spoke “Trust Me!” that was it, two words. But they meant more than life itself to me. I knew that was what I had to do. Sounds easy. But as I weighed the words in my mind and tasted them in my mouth. I found I was unable to say for certain that I did trust Him. I wanted to with all my heart. But what was the cost, would this all happen again? Was trusting Him worth more than my life itself? Then it came to me, like the sun rising in the morning. Little by little it rises every day until it is high in the sky. We very rarely notice the sunrise; we get up and take for granted it will happen. Pushing back the darkness, blotting out all traces of it ever being there, until only a memory of it is left. And that was what He was asking me to do, trust Him, and little by little He will push back the darkness, blotting it all out, until I am only left with a memory. I know He can restore to me what was lost in that fall, but for now I trust my Jesus with all that I am and have, as I patiently wait on my grassy rock on the mountainside with Jesus. In His timing and for His glory he will take me back up the mountainside, but for now as this season unfolds I shall enjoy the blessings that come with it. A view half way up the mountain is better than from the valley at the bottom! 

Footnote 

At the ladies retreat, I went for a walk and “found” this place, I walked to the edge of the woods behind Annan Court, early on the Saturday morning, it was really misty, at the edge of the woods, was a field, and in the distance I could hear cars on a road, but could not see them or the end of the field for the mist. I realised that was how I was going through life at the moment, hemmed in with mist or fog, I could only attend to the immediate, but there was so much else to life, but that was all hidden in the mist, I’d lost my joy for life and I wanted it back, I asked God when will the mist clear, when will I be restored, I heard Him say “SOON!” “How long is soon?” I asked, but there was no answer. I continued on my walk.  Later that afternoon I returned to the same spot, and the mist had cleared! I heard Him say, “See that didn’t take long did it?” I realised it hadn’t.  So now I know I will SOON be through all this and I do trust God for whatever lies ahead, even if I don’t like it, I know He will be there to carry me through. But I do hope it is good!!" 

IF you are going to a conference or seminar, and would like to put some Above Rubies magazines out, or even set up a resources stall, please contact us and we will supply what you need.