We're into August now and that means Newday time - the New Frontiers youth festival held every year at the Norwich Showground. Hope Church sent a party up for the week but this blog is really about a coach party of young people that spent an afternoon in Thetford last Friday.
We all assembled in the Large Court and spend some time asking God to show us "clues" about people He planned to encounter that afternoon. Then we all went out into the town looking for these people! One group met a lady on crutches with a serious knee problem. 5 minutes later she was healed, to her amazement. That evening she drove her car again for the first time in months. Furthermore she is only a neighbour of members in our church!
Read your Bibles and you find incidents like this were common place in the earthly life of Jesus and the early church. God hasn't changed since then nor has his desire to break into the lives of ordinary people to heal and to save.
Our church's function in this town is to be a conduit for the blessing of God to people like us.
A great afternoon.
Wednesday 22 August 2012
Monday 18 June 2012
Ringsfield Hall 2012
The weekend of 8-10 June saw Hope Church Thetford, plus one or two guests, blast off to Ringsfield Hall in Suffolk for a weekend together. it was just one great weekend. Great people, great food, great fun, great weather (amazingly) and we enjoyed a great God blessing us all.
I don't think any of us there will forget it in a hurry - the nighttime camp fire singing, the times of worship, Grantley's teaching, the treasure hunt, the Olympics, the talent show (top prize went to the Queen Victoria impression - you had to be there) and to cap it all - one girl suffered a badly sprained ankle (confirmed by the doctor) which God healed before we all came home again. Awesome.
I don't think any of us there will forget it in a hurry - the nighttime camp fire singing, the times of worship, Grantley's teaching, the treasure hunt, the Olympics, the talent show (top prize went to the Queen Victoria impression - you had to be there) and to cap it all - one girl suffered a badly sprained ankle (confirmed by the doctor) which God healed before we all came home again. Awesome.
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Easter blog
Here's hoping everyone had a happy Easter 2012 despite the iffy weather! Time for an update on how things are going over the year so far.
And I think the answer is: steady, with occasionally spectacular, progress!
We've just completed our first Alpha Course - lots of food (different culinary theme each time), lots of discussion and some guests as well. particularly pleased to see some Brazilian ladies coming along. So pleased were they to be with us that the final meeting that they hosted a Brazilian meal!
But I've saved the most exciting news to the end. One of our new Christian men came to us not expecting to live much longer - he had cancer. Now he hasn't! We went to a regional new Frontiers meeting at Dereham in may at which our apostolic leader, Mike Betts, came believing he'd heard from God that he had to pray for cancer. he did and an amazing healing has followed. Our man was conscious of a heat over the infected part and 2 subsequent hospital check-ups have revealed a stopping of the tumor's growth and now a shrinkage, no longer classified as malignant. Amazing.
But we've much to do now - it's all only just begun! Get in touch if you want to come along or just to find out more about Hope Church Thetford.
And I think the answer is: steady, with occasionally spectacular, progress!
We've just completed our first Alpha Course - lots of food (different culinary theme each time), lots of discussion and some guests as well. particularly pleased to see some Brazilian ladies coming along. So pleased were they to be with us that the final meeting that they hosted a Brazilian meal!
But I've saved the most exciting news to the end. One of our new Christian men came to us not expecting to live much longer - he had cancer. Now he hasn't! We went to a regional new Frontiers meeting at Dereham in may at which our apostolic leader, Mike Betts, came believing he'd heard from God that he had to pray for cancer. he did and an amazing healing has followed. Our man was conscious of a heat over the infected part and 2 subsequent hospital check-ups have revealed a stopping of the tumor's growth and now a shrinkage, no longer classified as malignant. Amazing.
But we've much to do now - it's all only just begun! Get in touch if you want to come along or just to find out more about Hope Church Thetford.
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