Molesey

So it's a few days on.. I never actually updated for the last few days! Oops! I guess I'm kinda recovered.. after sleeping in till 11 this morning! haha, good stuff. :)
Well the last two fun days were in Molesey and Surbiton, both of which went pretty well. :) Molesey, the weather was alright for most of the day, and it was the first day that I was on the prayer team and actually prayed for people! Just seeing people not only healed, but just touched by the fact that there are people who care enough about them to pray for them.. it was good. I prayed for one woman with Nathan and Phil, about some physical and emotional issues, but then after she left the healing tent, the band began playing a song and she knelt down in the middle of the field.. we didn't know what to do! So I went to see if she was okay, and she opened up about some stuff that was going on and I prayed for her in the middle of the field.. and just the fact that somebody cared.. I could tell that meant a lot to her. It's nice just to show someone that, and to let them know how much God loves them, and always has done. Also, Greg, I think it was, one of the Nexus guys, had this dream about kinda battling with the devil, and woke up with his chain broken from around his neck. This was significant, it was about breaking someone's chains, somethng that has a hold on someone..
While I was in the prayer tent, a couple walked in, wanting prayer for a family friend who was suffering with cancer, so we prayed, then asked him if he had anything he wanted prayer for.
He said his drinking problem, and he wore a chain around his neck and his wrist. This drinking problem, had a hold over him. So we prayed for him. He seemed pretty touched by it too.
So, all was well, but when Church Outdoors approached.. the rain came down! It turned out to be Church.. in a tent! But we had quite a lot of people staying for it, which was really great. :) But, like, the generator cut out, and the electricity went, and we had no PA system.. pretty much everything that could go wrong, DID go wrong, but somehow, we all still had a really good day! It was pretty awesome! :)

it's been a while!

Oooh, I haven't written in ages! It's now Friday, and we've just done our third family fun day in Herne Bay! Days 6, 7 and 8 have been a total blur! Everything's just been so hectic, but it's been awesome! On Wednesday, we did our family fun day in Wickford, which went pretty well. However, we woke up and looked outside, and it was raining and the sky looked dark.. But as soon as we got to the family fun day site and began to set up, there was literally a circle of blue sky just above the site, it was amazing! The weather stayed gorgeous all day, right up until we had just about finished packing everything up, at which point the rain came down hard. It was amazing though, just how the weather had kept off right up until then! It just showed us how amazing God really is! The fun day went really well, it was our first one, and everything went to plan. It was really busy, loads of people turned up, it was a bit hectic to be honest! During the fun day, and after the service, people came to the healing tent, and there was one girl who had a problem with her back and couldn't touch her toes, but after being prayed for, she could! She hadn't believed that she could be healed, but when she was, she just burst into tears. There was another person who really stood out, someone else with back issues. She couldn't walk normally, because of her back, and after being prayed for, she was asked if there was any difference. She got up but it was worse.. so they kept on praying for this woman. In the end, after more prayer, she was able to stand up, and walk better than she ever had before, and usually it would be worse after sitting down for so long, but she was fine! It was amazing, and there were a load more people who got prayed for too. :)

That night, we headed to Croydon and stayed in a church there. By the time we all got there, after waiting for our luggage, we all just fell asleep pretty much right away. Breakfast and showers, then we headed to the fun day site for about 9 in the morning, for small groups and set up. During the set up time though, the weather came down on us again. We'd just finished putting a marquee up, so thankfully we had somewhere to shelter, and the rain came down on us hard. A few times, it went from really warm and sunny to torrential rain again, but when 2 o'clock came, the sun was shining and the weather definitely looked promising! The sun shone throughout the fun day, and we've only got God to thank for that! A member of our team, Sharon, her sister came to the fun day and the Church outdoors, and became a Christian that day! That was great news. :) There was loads more prayer and healing going on, but to be honest, I'm so tired I can't really think of anything specific.. I'll let you know if I can, haha. :)

After eating, we left Croydon at around 9, and arrived in Herne Bay at around 11, pleasantly surprised to find a carpark fulll of people, we all had host families! The lovely people of Herne Bay gave us beds, it was dead nice to be back in a bed, as opposed to a church floor, and I had a great night's sleep, and it really refreshed me for the day after. Setup went well, we seem to be getting faster every day, which is great. The weather looked beautiful, we had to keep chucking on the suncream, it was so hot. I've drank so much water today, it's actually ridiculous! During the fun day, everything was pretty busy, and the queues grew fast as soon as we hit 2 o'clock! And I had a really bad headache that didn't go away, no matter how much water I drank, and I took painkillers too, but in the last 40 seconds before the end of a track when I was working with the radio, Richie prayed for me. So if there was a bit of dead space after a song, sorry, we were praying! But within ten minutes, my headache was gone, it was great! I'm gonna get a guest blogger on here, he can let you know how he thinks it's going, tell you about some stuff that's happened, as well as just kinda generally ramble, whatever he wants to say I guess. :) This is Nathan for yooouu. :)

"Ok, so today (Friday), Herne Bay saw Re:Act run our family fun day. I think I'll share some testimony of what happened to me. My friend David (who was on team last year) came. At the end of church out doors he asked me to pray for healing for two things. Firstly, his knee had been painful for a long time as he had fallen off a skateboard in a skate bowl... so ouch! Secondly, he had previously broken his thumb in a motorcycle accident and because of residual injury he couldn't cook (which is his job). I prayed with a member of the local church for him and he was healed on both counts instantly. Later we prayed for his step-sister against the spirit of depression. This for me was very important as confronting the enemy and spiritual warfare had been some of my hopes at the beginning of the outreach. I'm sure I will see more. But God is good and he is using his army to do great things. God Bless. Nathan."

That's about it from me, we're on the minibus between locations now, and I think I might go to sleep for a bit, haha. Blog later, ciao! x

Day five

And on the fifth day... it's Sabrina's birthdayyy! We sang at breakfast, it was cool. :) And Wickford, action day! Three Churches within a couple of hours, that's gotta be a record for me. St Andrews was where I woke up, we ate at Christchurch, and then we had our meetings and small groups at New Life. Some of us headed out towards the travelling community, we went off in our minibuses and spent some time with the people there. We talked to them, did some work litter-picking along the road, and we took the gear so some of us played football with the children, painted their faces, braided their hair, and they all seemed to love it. We promoted the family fun day, invited them all to come along, check it out, and we got pretty positive responses. We also went to the Memorial Park, where we'll be running tomorrow's fun day, and took the equipment again, painted some faces and braided some hair, just kinda bonded with the local people a bit. Most people could remember last year's fun day, in coordinance with Hope 08, and they were looking forward to it, which was great. We had almost a practice fun day, and everything seemed to run smoothly, it was great! :) Tons of people said they're gonna be coming along tomorrow, so we're looking forward to that. We ate back at Christchurch, and I ate so much I swear I was about to explode! There was so much food, it was great! :) We then headed back to Memorial Park, and prayed, sang, and prayer walked the site, and people got words about people they were going to meet tomorrow, people to look out for, and just words of encouragement. It was all pretty cool. Some enterainment back at Christchurch, movies and stuff, then it's back here to St Andrews to sleep, and sleep is always good. Gotta be ready to wake up early tomorrow! :) x

Day four

Day fourrrrr, the last day of the residential at the YWAM cenre in Harpenden! Bright and early again, in time for the final radio and dance workshops. Lots of Healing on the Streets stuff today, loads of practical stuff, we prayed for each other, for healing in each other, and we saw some of us healed! This afternoon, a number of us went into Luton town, put out some chairs, put some music on and raised a banner saying "Healing". We fell to our knees in the middle of this busy street, praying and feeling the presence of God, and we attracted rather a lot of attention. When we got up, people were looking over at us, and we wandered around the area. Some people came up to us, talked to us, and asked for healing, for prayer, and some of us went around the area talking to the local people. asking if they had anything they needed healing for. We saw some amazing things in Luton, we saw legs growing, and bruises fading right in front of us, it was awesome! We had some amazing conversations with people, it was just generally pretty great, good preperation for the healing on the famly fun days, as there's gonna be healing stations at each location. We then left Luton, and after packing up the lorry and the van in Harpenden, we then set off in our minibuses to Wickford, to settle in St Andrews, where the girls sleeping arrangements required a master at Tetris to figure out! Most of us headed for the takeaway, chip shop, Indian or Chinese, that finished off our night pretty well. They do nice chips here in Wickford. :) Anywayy, it's late, I need to sleep now, byee. x

Day three

Day three, and it's time for workshops again. In the radio workshop, we got taught how to use the equipment to record and edit interviews and voice clips, which sent me and Megan off later in the day to interview a few people about their potential superhero powers. The morning sessions were interesting, but a lot of the day was about the practical elements of React, of running the family fun days in the various towns. Marquee building was fun.. I think I've put one of those marquees up more than enough times by now, we had the same ones last year, as well as at Spree and Spree in the Borders. Inflatables were pretty simple, and the roadshow was about MCing, radio, football and balloon modelling, and a number of members of each team volunteered to do one each. Tonight's session was from a guy called Mark, who came to talk to us about Healing On The Streets, (HOTS). This is where they quite literally heal people on the streets, putting chairs out and a sign advertsising healing, and they've seen so much done, so many miracles through this. We saw, in front of us, someone's leg grow, and people being healed, it was amazing. Definitely inspiring, and a lot of the emphasis is on healing, people are really being called towards healing this year, and we're going out to do some of our own Healing On The Streets. It's gonna be awesome! Oh, and we got commisioned, each small group team got prayed for seperatley, along with each of the locations. People got words of knowledge about the places, and words for the teams and the team members, it was great. It's like everyon can tell that we're gonna be doing some amazing stuff over the next week, and one of the really cool things was that when we looked at the aerial photographs of each location, people could see the word "Hope" in the trees, in the buildings, the shadows, the letters spelt out in the images, which, yeah, it really gave us hope for this week. Anyway, I'll keep updating, though my internet access isn't exactly constant.. but I'll blog when I can. Anyway, I need to be awake for tomorrow.. Nightt. :) xx

Day two

The first full day of React, and we started bright and early, with radio and dance workshops. All the talks have been interesting and inspiring, I've got pages and pages of notes and Bible references that are gonna be useful to read through. We ran through the training for the crowd attractions,hair braiding, face painting and balloon modelling, which went really well. The evening session was all about The Holy Spirit, about how the in Trinity, each component is equal to the other, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all interchangable, and one and the same. The Holy Spirit was working in loads of people tonight. People were being refreshed in the Spirit and totally fired up for God. Some people got filled with the Holy Spirit for the first time, and that was pretty amazing. It was just an amazing session, and it gave us all the stength we need to get through this next week. But I think sleep is in order.. night. :) x

apologies!

sorry, it's been ages since i've been ab;e to get on, so here's a mass of posts! :)