Would You Believe It!, It happened in Scotland
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This little book written by Elsie Rowbotham with a foreword by Norman P Grubb gives the account of the 'miracle of the Glasgow Training College and Kilcreggan Conference Centre'. Francis and Elsie Rowbotham worked together using their complimentary combined skills which were used in 'owning and managing several shops combined into one', to run the college and the conference centre. This book takes us on a journey of faith as they share with us how they were challenged in many ways - financially and practically - and were able to testify to how God met them with every need as they sought to wait upon Him and do what He was asking them to do. They had previously experienced the testing of individual faith but they share in this book how they learned to develop 'fellowship faith'.
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Would You Believe It!, It happened in Scotland - Elsie Rowbotham
Would You Believe It!
by
Elsie Rowbotham
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Copyright 1963-1982 WEC Publications
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 – First – Their Own Selves ... and their Home
Chapter 2 – The Ultimate-All
Chapter 3 – God's Unsearchable Ways
Chapter 4 – His Plan Unfolds
Chapter 5 – And All These Things Added
Chapter 6 – The Initiation of the Training Centre
Chapter 7 – The First Principal and His Wife
Chapter 8 – Extension – and Provision
Chapter 9 – A Time to Build
Chapter 10 – Staff Reinforcement
Chapter 11 – Lengthened Cords – and Strengthened Faith
Chapter 12 – Losing to Gain
Chapter 13 – Removal and Replacement
Chapter 14 – Added Burdens – and Abundant Grace
Chapter 15 – Kilcreggan House – W.E.C. Conference Centre
Chapter 16 – And Now, Into Print
Chapter 17 – The Hundredfold
Chapter 18 – God's Impression and Confirmation
FOREWORD
I have not felt it necessary to put much of an editor's pen into this story. It is better told in the words of one of the two who went all through it. You can polish a thing up and maybe it is more smooth-running from a literary point of view; but that is not our objective. Let this tremendous testimony to God's miracle-working power do its own work in our hearts. This God is our God also. Let us see how God turns the ordinary into the extraordinary in the life of a normal young business couple in the city of Birmingham (I knew them myself in those days and have been along with them in the work ever since): how God changed them from being merely recipients to becoming channels of His grace:; the simple down-to-earth obediences of faith which were the training ground; the first hesitating steps in the life of believing God; the lessons learned of 'Give and it shall be given unto you', and 'It is more blessed to give than to receive'; the call; learning the secret of the corn of wheat which must 'fall into the ground and die', if it is to bear much fruit; and so onward to the full fruitage in the miracle of the Glasgow Training College and the Kilcreggan Conference Centre, with the hundreds of young lives in whom the same self-giving, outgoing life of Christ is being reproduced in all parts of the world, as in these two.
Francis and Elsie Rowbotham are known to us in the family circle of Worldwide Evangelization Crusade either as Fran and Elsie, or as 'Row' and 'Ma Row' (an echo of the way the Africans often shorten the names of the missionaries, and add 'Ma' for the better halves), and you will find them named in this way in the following pages. Elsie tells the story. But that must not leave anyone with the idea that here is the dominating lady in the leadership! No indeed, here is the ideally balanced couple, each taking his and her completely full part in the combined leadership: Fran in the lead in the general oversight of Bible College and Conference Centre, to his finger tips the willing servant of all for Christ's sake, and chairman of the conference sessions; Elsie, woman of prayer and faith side by side with her husband, and managing all that is involved in the domestic and catering side of these two crowded households; and both having learned – through the fires of their earlier experiences – the secrets of team work with their band of co-workers. We are sure any reader of this testimony who is up in the Glasgow direction will feel the warmth of their hospitality and welcome if you visit the Training College at 10, Prince Albert Road, or take a week of your summer holidays at Kilcreggan.
Norman P. Grubb
1963
PREFACE
In this edition I have sought to bring Staff and work up to date, realizing a work of God must be living and up to date.
My prayer is that like the previous editions God will use it for His Glory, and that as you read it you too will catch something of the thrill of launching out on the promises of God.
E.R.
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Chapter One
FIRST – THEIR OWN SELVES
... AND THEIR HOME
Francis and Elsie Rowbotham were a young business couple, who owned and managed several shops combined into one, in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. They were in their late twenties, and their home was a nice apartment above the shops. Their marriage had been based on a united act of dedication – that God was to come first in their lives; and they had told Him that 'all He had given us, a comfortable house, and all that goes with it, was given over to Him to use for His glory.'
When God is given right of way in lives, He has a delicate operation to perform. He has to reverse the flow of the life – the most important thing that can happen to a human being – from self-loving to self-giving. But what an outcome there is! These two little dreamed of what God had in store for them, as He began to take what they had offered Him – the five loaves to be broken to feed the five thousand. Nor is it done in a moment. Elsie gives some account of those earlier years:
Like most, we did not realise just all this was to mean in the very near future, for a new day was about to dawn in our spiritual experience; the cross had to be applied if we were going to be or do anything for Him, who had done so much for us.
Not many weeks had passed before young folk were meeting in our