Weekly Update

It’s a Bank Holiday weekend which must mean at least one BBQ mustn’t it?

It’s been a quieter week in some ways for us as Harlow Group as we didn’t meet yesterday but rather went to Stortford Community Church where they had a prophetic night with a superb guy called Julian Adams. It was good for us to be with God’s people and in His presence.

On a negative note sadly we’ve had more tiredness and illness this week so would ask for your continued prayers for good health for all our group. We really want to be all Jesus has called us to be and so long for the whole group to be fully functioning. God has been speaking to us about this and we’ll be exploring this in May when we start a mini ‘Body Building’ series.

Also please can you pray for fresh connections for us as we’ve had a quieter couple of weeks and would really like to be meeting some new people and building Jesus’ kingdom with them. In particular pray for people moving to the town and people who work at the hospital as God’s spoken about both these groups during our prayer meetings.

As always if you know anyone who you think it would be good for us to connect with then either forward this message on or direct them to our website as you can e-mail us from there. wwwharlowchurchplant.org

In the meantime thanks you so much for your continued support, we pray that God will bless you and reveal more of himself to you.

Keep smiling

Ben & Clare

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Another week flies by and spring seems to be well and truly here!

Within Harlow Group this week we’ve been busy trying to work on some updates to our website and publicity, which should filter through in the next few weeks and hopefully connect and join us with more people in Harlow.

We were also able to serve Open Door Church – Dunmow last Sunday and had a fantastic time with our friends there. We received a tremendous amount of encouragement for our work in Harlow and hope to have helped them on in their adventure with God also.

Our biggest prayer request is the same as last week and that is that by God’s grace we are able to make contact with people who are either new to Harlow, not connected to an existing church here or simply exploring the Christian faith, as we seek to build His kingdom in Harlow.

We do have some flyers and pens with our contact details on so if you or someone you know could use these or help distribute them please let us know and we’ll arrange to get them to you.

Have a fantastic week and thank you so much for taking the time to read this update and for remembering us to our heavenly father

Keep smiling

Ben & Clare

Harlow Group Thursday Night Commentary

Hi everyone my name is James and I’m part of the church plant here in Harlow.

Every Friday I’m going to be giving you a brief overview of what happened at Harlow Group the evening before so if your new and thinking of coming along you know what to expect and if your part of the group and miss an evening you won’t be in the dark.

Last night we had a great turnout with 13 people present, it started off in the normal fashion of yummy food made by myself, Ben and Clare which went down well with a side of catching up and laughter, we also had some great news one couple had some amazing news regarding a potentially troubled pregnancy which is no longer troubled and I now have a job so praise God and thank you for all your prayers.

During worship God spoke through me and Ben to the group which was both challenging and uplifting so THANK YOU GOD.

This week Lee brought some very impressive and factual teaching about the Wesley’s and the early Methodist movement after which we broke into groups and reflected and prayed.

By the grace of God the group is getting stronger and more people coming and showing interest.

We value the prayer support of all of you and pray that God will bless you abundantly!
In the words of Ben… God bless and keep smiling!

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Another week has flown past and been a really amazing one for us as a group as we’ve seen some massive answers to prayer. We’ve seen God provide a job for one person and a simply amazing healing for another. God is good.

Please be encouraged by this and know that you, and all the other people around the globe supporting us, contributed to these amazing events.

If you haven’t been to our website, www.harlowchurchplant.org, recently then have a look as we’ve altered some of the pages. In addition James from our group is now posting a weekly summary of our Thursday Harlow Group meetings so if you want to know what we really get up to why not have a read on the BLOG section.

Could we kindly ask you to continue praying for good health and employment for us as a group as although we’ve seen breakthrough there are still many more issues affecting different people in the group which remain.

Also please pray for more contact from people who are either new to Harlow, not connected to an existing church here or simply exploring the Christian faith, as it’s been great to continually have new people coming along the last few week and long may in continue.

In particular please pray that we can connect with men in Harlow as we are acutely aware that we are getting a gender bias in the group and also for people with key gifting who can really join the front lines within our ranks for the sole purpose of advancing Jesus’ kingdom in our town.

Ben is speaking at Open Door Church in Dunmow on Sunday so please pray that he’d be able to serve them well and we’d see Jesus’ kingdom extended all across Essex and beyond.

Have a good week and we’ll be in touch soon

Ben & Clare

Harlow Group Update 9th April 2010

We hope you had a great Easter. We spent time reflecting on one of the phrases common in the early church ‘Christ has died, Christ has Risen, Christ will come again!’

Since our last update we’ve been busy continuing with publicity and God has been good to us and brought us into contact with more new people one of whom has joined our group! It may not sound like much to you, but it feels like revival for us and we’re so grateful to God as it’s all His doing. We have a great God who answers prayers – our faith has risen and we ask for more contact with more people who can join with us on our adventure of making Jesus better known in Harlow.

Within our group we are still having battles for employment and health so would appreciate your partnering with us in prayer on those issues as well as connecting with new key people who can join our Harlow Church Plant.

We are hoping to do a brief summary of our group Thursday meetings on the BLOG section of our website (www.harlowchurchplant.org) so if you do know of people in and around Harlow please mention that to them so they can get a fuller flavour of what’s happening and hopefully pop along.

Ben is speaking at Kings Community Church over in Braintree on Sunday so we’d appreciate prayers for that so that Jesus is honoured, lives altered and His kingdom extended. We’re also looking forward to being amongst friends and catching up on goings on in the past months.

Thanks you so much for taking time to read this and for continuing to remember us in prayer – you are all superstars and we thank God for you (even if we don’t know you personally!)

Have a great week and lets hope the spring sunshine continues

Keep smiling

Ben & Clare

Happy Easter

Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again!

Please take time to think about these simple yet life changing facts as we celebrate this fantastic period of the Christian calender.

Have a great week

Ben & Clare