29 May 2014
06 May 2014
Rebirth Dance Network
We have some amazing dancers of all different styles in our fellowship. It is so exciting to see some of them really using their talents share Christ. D7 (Daniel) is an incredible hip hop dancer and has started his own dance company called Rebirth Dance Network. They are truly being bold about Jesus and are the leading urban Christian dance theatre company in London.
D7 choreographed such a powerful piece for a secular dance venue called Icon. Each dance company was supposed to pick a female icon, current or past, and do a piece about them. Well Rebirth did an incredibly powerful piece on Corrie Ten Boom who was put in a concentration camp for harboring jews and saw family die. Latter on in life when speaking at a church she meets one of the soldiers who killed her sister and is faced with forgiving this man because of what Christ has done for us.
Their piece is called 'the F word'
D7 choreographed such a powerful piece for a secular dance venue called Icon. Each dance company was supposed to pick a female icon, current or past, and do a piece about them. Well Rebirth did an incredibly powerful piece on Corrie Ten Boom who was put in a concentration camp for harboring jews and saw family die. Latter on in life when speaking at a church she meets one of the soldiers who killed her sister and is faced with forgiving this man because of what Christ has done for us.
Their piece is called 'the F word'
Easter 2014
What a glorious time celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ with our amazing church family. I love seeing those that serve coming together using all their different gifts and talents to worship the Lord. From amazing singers worshipping through song, to musicians through instruments, to dancers through movement, to servants serving tea and coffee…
God really is doing an amazing work in our incredibly diverse and beautiful fellowship. Lives are being transformed and set on fire for Jesus!
Bellow is a video of the dance that D7 shared on Easter Sunday as well. I love the diversity of gifts that can be used to glorify God and minister to people.
God really is doing an amazing work in our incredibly diverse and beautiful fellowship. Lives are being transformed and set on fire for Jesus!
Bellow is a video of the dance that D7 shared on Easter Sunday as well. I love the diversity of gifts that can be used to glorify God and minister to people.
Easter Outreach Dance
On Good Friday a group of us took to the streets with a dance to share the Gospel and invite people to Easter Service. We have so many amazing dancers in our fellowship and it has really been on my heart to bring some together for outreach in the city. Outreach for Easter was the perfect opportunity to start this. This time around it was kind of a last minute thing that we pulled together but it really sparked an excitement in some of the dancers for more to come. I’m so stoked to see what all the Lord is going to continue to do through dance as a tool for outreach here.
It was such a blessing for me to get to be apart of dancing again, even if in a small way. I'm really praying that at some point the Lord would heal my muscles enough so that I can dance again or at least give me the strength to endure the pain if I am supposed to start dancing again some anyways.
Here is a video of when we did the dance at church the following Sunday. Sorry the sound quality in the video isn't that great.
It was such a blessing for me to get to be apart of dancing again, even if in a small way. I'm really praying that at some point the Lord would heal my muscles enough so that I can dance again or at least give me the strength to endure the pain if I am supposed to start dancing again some anyways.
Here is a video of when we did the dance at church the following Sunday. Sorry the sound quality in the video isn't that great.
05 May 2014
Baptisms
The day before Easter we all headed down to the beach in Brighton for baptisms. Four young women in our fellowship, who have more recently given their lives to Christ, chose to make this public declaration of what Christ has done in their lives. Declaring how they’re old self was burried with Christ in His death and now they have a new life through His resurrection.
We had about 40 people from our church family that all made the trip down to support them and celebrate with them. We had such a sweet time of praise and worship on the beach, a short teaching on what baptism is all about and then in the water they went. I love too how other people around on the beach get to over hear the Gospel.
We had about 40 people from our church family that all made the trip down to support them and celebrate with them. We had such a sweet time of praise and worship on the beach, a short teaching on what baptism is all about and then in the water they went. I love too how other people around on the beach get to over hear the Gospel.
Passover!
The Sunday before Easter we transformed the back room at Cafe Eterno and put on a 1st Century Passover experience. It is so beautiful as we look at the symbolism in this celebration that God ordained as remembrance of the bondage we set free from and beautiful covenant He has made with us. Every aspect of it points us to sacrifice of Jesus Christ as our Passover lamb. The Lamb without spot or blemish that takes away the sins of the world. Then He offers us the cup of the covenant and says “Will you be mine?”
It was such a joy to serve alongside my brothers and sisters to put this on. Everyone had a lot of fun and lives were impacted. God is so good!
It was such a joy to serve alongside my brothers and sisters to put this on. Everyone had a lot of fun and lives were impacted. God is so good!
Pray for the guys at Uturn
Please be praying for our guys at UTurn as there is a lot of hard stuff going on there right now. Conflicts with staff, guys leaving and then the death of a guy that was sort of part of the house. It is always so heartbreaking when you see a guy give up and walk away, especially when you had seen them really start to grow in the Lord. What these guys go through in recovery is really hard especially when some of the staff really doesn’t handle things well either. Then you add on top of that this guys death. Tensions and drama are really high right now. Please pray for peace there, for everyone to draw near to the Lord and for the enemy not to get footholds in there!
York Bible College Outreach Team
We had another team come down from theCalvary Chapel Bible College up in York. This time it was only a team of 3, which made my job of organizing and overseeing it a lot easier. They really were a delight to have and it was such a blessing to have them out in the streets sharing Jesus.
One of the highlights for me was getting to go with a few of the performers on the West End to several of the theatres and pray over the theatre companies individually. They were able to give us some unique insights into what goes on back stages and how to be praying for some of the specific companies.
The team was also out on the streets in Camden a lot doing evangelism. And they came with us to make breakfast and hangout with the guys at UTurn Rehab.
One of the highlights for me was getting to go with a few of the performers on the West End to several of the theatres and pray over the theatre companies individually. They were able to give us some unique insights into what goes on back stages and how to be praying for some of the specific companies.
The team was also out on the streets in Camden a lot doing evangelism. And they came with us to make breakfast and hangout with the guys at UTurn Rehab.
Breakfast with the Ladies
A couple other ladies from the Tues West End Bible study and I have really had a heart to see the women brought into deeper fellowship. So we decided to have a women’s breakfast. It ended up being such a blessed morning!
I shared at it a devo about the Word of God and how much we need it daily and need to be reading it for ourselves. The same Word that spoke and created the universe is the same Word that speaks every time we open this precious book. The Word that was spoken so we can have a deep and intimate relationship with our Saviour. It is how we know Him. So why do we always go to what everyone else says about the supposed Lover of our souls versus the Word of our Beloved Himself? It really is the power to transform our lives and we can’t live without it.
It ended up being a mix of women from our Tues study as well as a number of other women that the ladies knew needed some good fellowship. It was cool to see it really met a need for so many of these women that have been craving solid fellowship. Several of them are performers of various nature, since they work at such odd times it’s hard to get plugged in at a church. However, it also kinda broke my heart to see that though some of these women attend other churches they aren’t getting really any solid fellowship. Also, many of them were so refreshed and challenged to be reminded about our need for the pure milk of God’s Word. Please be praying for how we can continue to reach out to these ladies as well as for the other churches that they would teach to pure Word of God and have true fellowship centered around Christ.
I shared at it a devo about the Word of God and how much we need it daily and need to be reading it for ourselves. The same Word that spoke and created the universe is the same Word that speaks every time we open this precious book. The Word that was spoken so we can have a deep and intimate relationship with our Saviour. It is how we know Him. So why do we always go to what everyone else says about the supposed Lover of our souls versus the Word of our Beloved Himself? It really is the power to transform our lives and we can’t live without it.
It ended up being a mix of women from our Tues study as well as a number of other women that the ladies knew needed some good fellowship. It was cool to see it really met a need for so many of these women that have been craving solid fellowship. Several of them are performers of various nature, since they work at such odd times it’s hard to get plugged in at a church. However, it also kinda broke my heart to see that though some of these women attend other churches they aren’t getting really any solid fellowship. Also, many of them were so refreshed and challenged to be reminded about our need for the pure milk of God’s Word. Please be praying for how we can continue to reach out to these ladies as well as for the other churches that they would teach to pure Word of God and have true fellowship centered around Christ.
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