Week of prayer: meeting 8 Olympic challenge
…what an evening, as we got to spend time thanking God for his provision both financially and materially as prayed in to the Olympic challenge we are running with to be a church of 500 by 2012.
We started by thanking God for his provision of finances that in the climate we are in, in 2009 we saw an increase in giving from £183.5k to £195k (which was just 3k short of what we were going for) and doesn’t include the nearly 10k on top that was given elsewhere! We then moved on to thank God for the favour he has given us at the Cricket Ground and for the marquee (big top) we are getting to meet in and our ability to see God fill it. From here we then thanked God for every individual that has been added to us since going after the Olympic challenge in 2007! As we prayed you couldn’t help but see we were already a totally different church to the one at the start of 2007.
As we thanked God for all we have seen it stirred faith to ask God for more. As we prayed we were reminded of how natural things we see can point to spiritual realities…Elizabeth Adam’s remined us of the new ceiling in the marquee and how it is littered with small LED’s from here she read and reminded us of the promise God gave Abraham that his descendants would out number the stars in the sky. Elizabeth encourage us to remember this promise whenever we see the lights.
This encouragement fueled our prayer for faith to believe God for growth and for God to bring growth…the hour ran out quickly and for all of us we left with a deep sense that things are changing…
