I think London gets confused on what spring weather should be. okay google defines spring weather as:
Warmth cause by the turning of an axis (something something, blah blah) WARMTH... ha.
We have not had much warmth from the weather, but we have had some fabulous days here in London. Even though it isn't warm and maybe for three of the days we have been here has been warm, the flower still continue to come and bloom. So spring is underway, fighting past the cold and rain.
We have finished up almost five weeks here and have only two weeks left! I can't believe it.
London is incredible with it's activity and people. It has exciting things like the 'tube' which I currently have a love/hate relationship with. We as a team, have to take the 'underground tube' to get from point A to B all the time. It saves us a lot of time and walking, but it costs us heaps, and does not sit well with my claustrophobia... haha.. This is why we are on a love/hate basis. I love getting places quickly. I hate being in that tiny tube underground, especially when it all the sudden stops and you just sit there and all you can see out the window is the wall about 10 inches from the outside of the tube. We are literally in a tiny hole running through the underground world of tunnels. It is crazy. I try not to think about it to much.
We have been working with 6 different churches in the borough of westminster. We have really been able to build relationship with all of them. It makes me smile sometimes when I think about what God is up too, and I hear people talk about how it is impossible to work with so many people, in such a short time. Praise the Lord, God is a big God!
We have been going out in the streets to meet people. It is amazing the different people you can encounter and it has been sad and hard to see all the loneliness amongst so many people. It is interesting that in such a busy, big city, where in some parts of the city you have thousands of people constantly pressing in around you, there are people that are lonely. They have no one. They have no feeling of acceptance, family, or love.
It has been a challenging thing, and one of the things that God has spoken to us about to combat this is to share about God's father heart for people. The acceptance, and love He has for them. I got the words before we ever came to London that we would "paint the town red for Jesus." So we have printed off this love letter that is from God on red paper and we literally 'paint' the town with these letters. What it is, is a bunch of scriptures that talk about His love towards us. If you want to see an example you can click here:
http://www.cse.ust.hk/~scc/KnowingGodasFather.pdf
So we printed off hundred or so of these letters and have been putting them up in the city, giving them to people, putting them in postboxes. Painting the city with the truth about God's love for people, his acceptance, of them. It was so funny to me the way that God spoke about this and then developed the idea a few weeks later. I love it! We have so much fun putting these out everywhere.
Well, many more stories to share. We have testimonies we put up every week on our website. Go here for more stories from our time here:
http://www.facebook.com/megacities
More to come later. =)
you are blessed to be a blessing
Warmth cause by the turning of an axis (something something, blah blah) WARMTH... ha.
We have not had much warmth from the weather, but we have had some fabulous days here in London. Even though it isn't warm and maybe for three of the days we have been here has been warm, the flower still continue to come and bloom. So spring is underway, fighting past the cold and rain.
We have finished up almost five weeks here and have only two weeks left! I can't believe it.
London is incredible with it's activity and people. It has exciting things like the 'tube' which I currently have a love/hate relationship with. We as a team, have to take the 'underground tube' to get from point A to B all the time. It saves us a lot of time and walking, but it costs us heaps, and does not sit well with my claustrophobia... haha.. This is why we are on a love/hate basis. I love getting places quickly. I hate being in that tiny tube underground, especially when it all the sudden stops and you just sit there and all you can see out the window is the wall about 10 inches from the outside of the tube. We are literally in a tiny hole running through the underground world of tunnels. It is crazy. I try not to think about it to much.
We have been working with 6 different churches in the borough of westminster. We have really been able to build relationship with all of them. It makes me smile sometimes when I think about what God is up too, and I hear people talk about how it is impossible to work with so many people, in such a short time. Praise the Lord, God is a big God!
We have been going out in the streets to meet people. It is amazing the different people you can encounter and it has been sad and hard to see all the loneliness amongst so many people. It is interesting that in such a busy, big city, where in some parts of the city you have thousands of people constantly pressing in around you, there are people that are lonely. They have no one. They have no feeling of acceptance, family, or love.
It has been a challenging thing, and one of the things that God has spoken to us about to combat this is to share about God's father heart for people. The acceptance, and love He has for them. I got the words before we ever came to London that we would "paint the town red for Jesus." So we have printed off this love letter that is from God on red paper and we literally 'paint' the town with these letters. What it is, is a bunch of scriptures that talk about His love towards us. If you want to see an example you can click here:
http://www.cse.ust.hk/~scc/KnowingGodasFather.pdf
So we printed off hundred or so of these letters and have been putting them up in the city, giving them to people, putting them in postboxes. Painting the city with the truth about God's love for people, his acceptance, of them. It was so funny to me the way that God spoke about this and then developed the idea a few weeks later. I love it! We have so much fun putting these out everywhere.
Well, many more stories to share. We have testimonies we put up every week on our website. Go here for more stories from our time here:
http://www.facebook.com/megacities
More to come later. =)
you are blessed to be a blessing
Finally back in a country that has Dr. Pepper!
Going into the deep abyss of the underground! I mean I think we go like miles underground.. :/
We pass by Ben on our way around a lot =)
This was a big youth event that ywam was asked to help run. It was commissioning out 2012 young people to the streets to do evangelism for the 90 pre-olympics. So we had 2700 young people show up to worship together, share in scripture, and then be prayed over to share Jesus for the next 90 days. This was a picture of all the people helping with the head bishop of the anglican church of England. I'm in there somewhere in the front row, only a few people from the bishop. FUN.
okay I can't resist sharing a story - this event was incredible. They held it at the st. paul's cathedral, which in and of itself it incredible. Then you get Tim Hughs leading us in worship, and all these young people singing praise to Jesus, ready and wanting to say yes to what He has called all of us to do - share. It was incredible to be apart of this event. Yah Jesus and yah London for seeing God move!
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