Amazing transformations...

I've had a really exciting week and felt the need to share. We're being told that the church is in decline...but we aren't told that people are finding God all the time! This has been proven to me this week.

On Sunday a came across a young person who I have had contact with through my job in the past doing Christian lunches in school, she has found Jesus along with her friend, through the positive witnesses of a Christian teacher and others. Then, I was doing a lesson yesterday in one of my schools and a young person who I had contact with last year in her old school came up to me and told me she gave her life to Christ 2 months ago, when i asked her how she told me through prayer, she discovered prayer, and how amazing it was in her life! WOW! No church, no people, just God and a thirst for spiritual fulfilment!

It's really exciting and got me more enthusiastic about how to reach young people and their thirst to experience something different and more meaningful. I'm reading 'The Godbearing Life' at the moment by Kenda Creasy dean and Ron Foster, so hopefully will share more soon!

An interesting article...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7853494.stm

New Term

Just a quick note. We started back on Monday with RS, encouraged to see so many of the usuals there. I was a little apprehensive that we may have lost a lot of the positive feelings and growth we had from last term with such a long break but it was brilliant to see the group back together, mixing and asking more questions than ever. Something seems to have happened over the break. May be when a community is broken over time the quest to bring it back together is bigger.

At the end of the meeting on Monday we ended with a spoken prayer and it was encouraging to see them apparently engaging with it...something to develop on in the coming weeks.

We're really excited about what's ahead this term as we look at bigger issues, looking at creative ways to bring prayer into the group is particularly exciting.