An Amazing day
so, i woke up today in a pretty good mood. had a good and challenging meeting with jonny in the morning, mad team meeting after that (how 6 people in a room can create such maddness i dont know) and then went upstairs to do some work. jonny asked me to write his feedback thing (having only known him in a face to face sense for about maybe 4 weeks now, this wasnt the easiest thing to do. i think he came out sounding like the godfather of all church leaders or something) but anyways, then i went to lunch with darren, who is a great guy and who doesnt mind talking to me about things which is nice.
i wanted to write to essays today but didnt get around to it because of the following reasons:
1. I had to go with my flat mates to buy some dvds and guess who.
2. I had completely forgotten about going to Southwark for Jesus meeting at Southwark town hall.
now the first thing was great enough, but it was really the second thing that knocked my socks off. being there was only what i can describe as an "acts" moment. it was amazing. to be honest, i went in thinking "wonderful, another thing to keep me from getting my essays done" which, by the way, are due wednesday. i didnt really think that much would happen, kind of thought that we would sit and listen to the churches explaining why we need to pray for Southwark to the mayor.
it wasnt like that at all. it kind of was at the begining, but it was really interesting. then, it was time for us to pray. that was when the amazing thing happened. there we were, christians from every thinkable denomination (well almost), sitting in the middle of the chambers in town hall, and what do we do? we begin to pray! many in tongues and it was just such a noise! people crying out for God to move and to change Southwark. the angels in heaven must have been shouting for joy at the sight of all of us, united in prayer and thought and deed, crying out to God! This happened a second time later on when we prayed for the schools that we have in our areas.
God was tangibly present in those chambers. it was a breath-taking, heart-quickening way to kick off what, to my mind, will be an amazing week of prayer. this borough needs God so much, and has given the churches here like mind and spirit and that is just amazing.
so, im so excited about going into the school to read tomorrow. it is notorious for its violence, but it was prayed for today and i am confident that God is going to do great things there.
sorry for the crap style of this, im just so glad that i could be part of something that has the air of being something groundbreaking here in Southwark.
i wanted to write to essays today but didnt get around to it because of the following reasons:
1. I had to go with my flat mates to buy some dvds and guess who.
2. I had completely forgotten about going to Southwark for Jesus meeting at Southwark town hall.
now the first thing was great enough, but it was really the second thing that knocked my socks off. being there was only what i can describe as an "acts" moment. it was amazing. to be honest, i went in thinking "wonderful, another thing to keep me from getting my essays done" which, by the way, are due wednesday. i didnt really think that much would happen, kind of thought that we would sit and listen to the churches explaining why we need to pray for Southwark to the mayor.
it wasnt like that at all. it kind of was at the begining, but it was really interesting. then, it was time for us to pray. that was when the amazing thing happened. there we were, christians from every thinkable denomination (well almost), sitting in the middle of the chambers in town hall, and what do we do? we begin to pray! many in tongues and it was just such a noise! people crying out for God to move and to change Southwark. the angels in heaven must have been shouting for joy at the sight of all of us, united in prayer and thought and deed, crying out to God! This happened a second time later on when we prayed for the schools that we have in our areas.
God was tangibly present in those chambers. it was a breath-taking, heart-quickening way to kick off what, to my mind, will be an amazing week of prayer. this borough needs God so much, and has given the churches here like mind and spirit and that is just amazing.
so, im so excited about going into the school to read tomorrow. it is notorious for its violence, but it was prayed for today and i am confident that God is going to do great things there.
sorry for the crap style of this, im just so glad that i could be part of something that has the air of being something groundbreaking here in Southwark.
posted by Sarah at 12:52 PM
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