Hit me...chop me

You may remember a posting way back where I invited you to keep the gospel before me and to hit me with your gospel stick.

I still mean it.

In fact, maybe I need Butch Yelton's method:

Existence of God

knockin' on heaven's door

Latest voxpop for Summer in the City

No thanks to Windows Movie Maker

I don't know why I keep using it. It is pants. More crashes than an evening at the stock car track. But finally, it helped me come up with this for our upcoming Summer in the City.

New church beginning

My bro Ant Adams in Derby has at last answered the call.
(Did you realise my recurring Farside cartoon was aimed at you all this time, bro !? That's you on the sofa and Emma urging you on).

I am very very excited for them and the Urban Life Team.

Sam, Fi and I from TCH went down to spend a lovely and evening with them recently. I came back really inspired as they make their first tentative steps to plant a household congregation in Normanton, Derby- a very similar area to our beloved Sharrow. (A report notes that "There are 27,200 people who live in Normanton and the area contains over 50% of Derby’s minority ethnic community. Normanton is the one of Derby’s areas for regeneration as agreed by Derby City Partnership. There is a range of social and economic problems...").

Sounds perfect for church planting!

Please pray for these brave soldiers of Christ.

Blessings guys. Lots of big ones!

appreciating communal prayer

We're praying more in The Edge Network.
One aspect that I appreciated today was that it encourages me to be less individualistic about MY ministry and opens my viewpoint wider to see I am part of a family, a body, a team and we are ministering together. Communal prayer has that effect. I like that.

wow

You should watch this... exceptionally rare candidness

Trapped

Many asylum seeker mothers are trapped in a scheme making it very difficult for them to buy essentials for their children. The government supplies them with luncheon vouchers instead of cash. This means they cannot use public transport or buy non food items (eg. nappies and baby items) but they can buy McDonald's and shop at certain supermarkets (which may be several miles from their home).

See the BBC report here.

We are part of a counter-scheme in Sheffield buying vouchers from mothers with young babies. Can you help?
A friend of mine has been running this scheme to help by buying vouchers from mothers with young babies. The scheme has grown over the last few months and we now have a stockpile of Morrisons vouchers and luncheon vouchers (usable at all major supermarkets for food items). Unless we can sell these, we cannot buy any more. Luncheon vouchers can be used for any food shopping at a large range of supermarkets, listed on the books.

If anyone could buy some vouchers from us now and consider buying regularly in the future that would be wonderful!

Please contact me if you can help in this.