Review

Ok so i feel like it's time to work out what we've done and where we're going...

In 5 months, we have 2 new Christians, 1 demon cast out, one (tiny) house church planted, one new home group. We've moved the Sunday meetings into a hall, dispensed with up front preaching led services and made them interactive and started the journey into questioning what church is. Our continuing monthly all age worship service is now averaging 50 attendees.

There's another potential hose church on the cards, with a couple who are extremely open if not actually there yet. Tonight we're having a meal with two couples to discuss living in community and sharing life. One of the guys is a potential house for duty youth worker. (But all that is totally hypothetical, could easily go belly up.)
We are looking as changing the youth&kids worker role(16 hours) into a children's minister/evangelist and planting a kids church some point around Easter.
Lots of church members are enthused by the journey's into the Spirit they're taking, listening to and hearing God is becoming more normal, one guy prays for healings in Homebase where he works and saw a witch's neck healed!

Things are moving on, chickens are on the way, veg and herbs in the pipeline, we're renovating the cottage and looking at getting some gap year workers, there's possible vicar college students to come...

I prayed for a random guy on the streets for healing yesterday (pray for Loveday) and am looking at how to make that more regular across the church. We have a prayer room under construction in our cellar by our wonderful churchwarden/handyman. This will be the hub for a shared rhythm of life and prayer for a community based round the vicarage/church and open to the whole of the church/meadows community.


This sounds like a lot but I feel like I could have worked harder and done more. Apathy is the big battle and this whole work feels like a huge spiritual battle at the mo. Battling fatigue and ill-health all over the church and in our family. (Dan has been in and out of hospital and is still sick with something gastrorental) Battling all kinds of weird events that hold us back. There's people unhappy iwth changes, there's annoyance that we've cut back youth work, there's much less involvement from me in committees, we're a bit worried about money, admin isn't being done the best... oh well...

We're still in huge need of a fund-raiser, an admin type person, a youth-worker... oh another few thousand saved, but 5 months in, God's at work.

Caroline is flying in faith, just going deeper and i'm loving that, she's out praying/on the streets every Tuesday with a mate, She's planning a pampering evening for single mums at ours and a toddlers group weekly in few weeks time... she only works for church 5 hours a week!


anyway, thats an update for all interested parties... PRAYER PLEASE!