Happy New Year and welcome to those of you who have joined since our last update towards the end of 2009.
We are so thankful for your support and prayers as we doubt we’d be where we are without them. We sincerely pray that you will be blessed in return.
Last night we had the first of our informal getting to know each other sessions which saw 9 of us gather together for some food whilst sharing stories of the weather affected weeks we had been having. Clare and I had a great time, as we think did everyone else! We were amazed at God’s goodness in getting everyone together and giving us such a relaxed friendly feel to the group even though some people were meeting for the first time.
We must mention people’s commitment as one person had had to stay up 24 hours due to her car breaking down and another drive all the way from Manchester just to be with us! Truly humbling to be a part of and thank you so much!
Sorry to those of you who weren’t able to make it and we look forward to seeing you at one of our other meetings soon. The next 3 dates and times are as follows, Sunday 17th January from 3 till 4pm, Thursday 21st January from 7 till 9pm with food and Sunday 31st January from 3 till 4pm.
If you or someone you know would like to pop along we’d love to see you just reply to this message or post on our Facebook page and we’ll get more details to you.
Prayer requests would be for meaningful relationships to be formed amongst the ‘Harlow Group’ and for us to also clearly hear God on the decisions which we are making at present for the group. Also we are trusting God to add to our number and so would appreciate prayer relating to this; that people would hear of our existence and that we would also have opportunities to share the gospel and also our vision with many people whom we currently don’t know. (And for courage to do just that!)
We’d also appreciate prayer regarding our ability to establish good relationships with the many other established churches in the town and for our relationship with the other Newfrontier Churches in the region. We have the opportunity to share briefly with Bishop’s Stortford Community Church, where we are now based, all that God has put on our hearts for Harlow next Sunday (17th January) and so your prayers for communicating this clearly and for people to decide to support and join us as a result would be fabulous.
Have a great week and hopefully we’ll have another update shortly and are still aiming to get a website up by the end of January.
Keep smiling
Ben and Clare
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