Wednesday 10 August 2011

sorry it's been so long

Sorry it's been a while!! so so much has happened in the last couple of months.
  • We helped run a churches together stall at the Harold Hill festival, which meant local churches working together in an amazing way.
  • We have run an evening for families asking " Is God a good parent?"
  • We had a 10th wedding anniversary party at the pub which was an amazing opportunity to have a party with our friends from Harold Hill, Steve and Lauren did the catering and it was an amazing time together.
  • We continue to work very closely supporting some families and this is a big privilege and we as at times a bit of a burden as we serve these wonderful people.
  • We have had significant chats with those we are serving and what is encouraging us the most is the way that God is on the agenda so often in our conversations, whether it's at the pub, at a ladies coffee morning or at any of the other times we have interaction with the community.
  • Alison and Lauren have put on some amazing pamper session for some of the moms.
  • The community meal has exploded numbers wise, BBQ's and sun are proving great pulls.
  • People have started to ask for prayer and support which again is a great step forward.
Please pray for us, to be honest we're tried and still have some exiting things coming up but we're also really busy with all the normal stuff and i'm doing a lot of preaching in the next couple of months.

It would be also really good if you could pray for Steve and Lauren, they are considering their future at the end of their training ( 9months time) steve is off to thailand for 3 weeks in Sept with BMS, but then hopefully steve will be free to focus on his studies and on Harold hill from Oct onwards. please pray for him as he does this.

Once again, sorry it's been so long and thank you so much for your prayer support and encouragement.

R.