Update July 16th

Thanks for taking time to read this and your continued support.

No baby news to convey yet but lots of other good news this week. Last Sunday we greatly enjoyed being part of the Church in Harlow at the town park where we got to meet with old friends, make new friends and above all see Jesus worshipped in our town.

Since then we’ve been able to follow up enquiries to the website and had the pleasure of meeting new people both from Harlow and also Tibet who it has been great to share time, friendship and life with.

Thank you therefore for your prayers as God has definitely answered them by bringing us into contact with several new people, we’d ask you to continue to pray that this continues to happen and we’re able to gather more people over the next few days and weeks.

We’d also ask you to pray for wisdom for us as we face a few decisions in the next few weeks about how we go forward looking at the next chapter in the life of Harlow Church Plant.

One resource we’d like to recommend to you that was shared by Lex in a Seminar at Brighton is the website www.fixed-point.org
If you’ve not come across it before can we encourage you to have a look and maybe set aside some time to watch some of the debates including the well known ‘God Delusion’ and it’s both great and reassuring to see how these set of arguments are dismissed and the Gospel Message emerges.

Lastly for those of you in the Midlands please take a look at the Facebook group for ‘Real Life Church’ which is another Newfrontiers church plant starting in North Birmingham this summer. Hopefully this link might work! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/findreallife?ref=ts

Have a good week and we’ll keep you informed when baby arrives

Ben & Clare

Brighton Leaders Conference Video

Please use the link below to see the video of this year's conference

http://www.vimeo.com/13204217

Update 10th July

Many of you will know that Clare & I have just returned from the Newfrontiers Leaders Conference in Brighton where we had a great time meeting friends, getting lots of advice and really encountering God.

In Harlow we’ve had a lack of new people for a couple of weeks although we have had some e-mail enquiries to return home to. Please pray that these go well and we’re able to meet and build with key people in the town.
Please also pray that people moving into the town find us via our various forms of advertising and that God would bless us and allow us to regain growth momentum.

We’re looking forward to Sunday afternoon when lots of the churches in Harlow who are part of ‘heart for Harlow’ have gained use of the town bandstand and are putting on a Praise in the Park which we’ll be going to. This should be a great time as God is honoured and His people come together. If your local and free between 2 and 5.30pm please pop along.

Thanks for your continued support as we seek to build a fresh expression of Christianity in our town

Keep smiling
Ben & Clare