Newfrontiers God Central Church - Harlow Update 8th July

We hope this finds you well and thanks for reading and supporting us on our mission of making Jesus better known in Harlow.

Since we last wrote we’re pleased to announce that from September we’ll be meeting every Sunday morning at 10.30am at the Harlow Playhouse.

Even better they have kindly agreed that we can use 2 rooms downstairs and so we’re excited about helping the babies and children have their own space as well as the opportunity to improve our welcome and profile.

God has been so good to us we are very grateful and amazed at what He has done and is doing! He really is building His church!

In addition we’ve also been in contact with several new people in Harlow which is again really exciting as God has spoken to us about gathering more people as we move into the next season and He is already going before us and linking us with new people in Harlow!

If you are reading this and new to Harlow, know someone who is, or who lives here and isn’t part of an existing church, please send us an e-mail to info@harlowchurchplant.org or give us a call/text on 07722 969088 as we’d really like to connect with more people in our town.

Please could we ask you pray for wisdom, protection and guidance for us as a church and also for healing and jobs for some of the people in the church.

Have a good day and thanks again for reading this

Keep smiling

Ben, Clare & everyone at God Central church – Harlow
www.Godcentralchurch.org

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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

The week just gone! It has been a good one.

Hello again and hope you’ve had a good week. Thanks for all your prayers and encouragement for our Regional Announcement last Sunday which was well received. As a result our website has been busier but still needs lots of visits to climb above primarily estate agents whom Google finds when searching ‘Harlow Church’ due to them selling properties in Church Langley Harlow!

On a personal note been a good week as our extension has started and seems to be flying up and on a Harlow Group front also been a good week – we were in double figures again last night and felt God was really with us as we continued to look at what makes us ‘Harlow Group’ Full details on our website www.harlowchurchplant.org

We’d still appreciate prayers for health and jobs as these two obstacles never seem to be far away from us as a group though through it all God has been good.

In addition please can you pray that we are able to connect with new people in our town who aren’t in an existing church in the town but whom God can use to help us establish a significant church which extends His kingdom.

After seeing new people along for the past 2 weeks now we’re really excited about what God is doing especially as we approach Easter when we remember Jesus’ death and resurrection. We hope to be able to connect with new people at this key time!

Have a great week and thanks for your continued support and taking the time to read this update

Keep smiling
Ben & Clare

Weekly Update 12th March

Once again good afternoon on a Friday and we hope you have a good weekend planned. Thank you one and all for your continued support it is very much valued!

This week has seen our website, www.harlowchurchplant.org, go fully live on the various search engines and we have already had one family in Harlow contact us via it which is really exciting! We are praying that this is just the start of things to come!

We have also taken delivery today of our first set of postcard flyers and I even had time to drop a few off whilst up the town centre earlier between coffee appointments. Your continued prayers for fruit from our publicity would be excellent at the moment as we are seeking to meet fresh people in our town, Harlow.

Last night we met as a group and it was nice to have 2 new faces with us whom we hope were blessed and will consider joining us on our mission to make Jesus better known in Harlow. We looked at what God has called us to be and were really challenged by the following passage from Isaiah 61

'The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD's favour'

We believe that this is what God has called us to be and also discussed the reality that this isn’t going to be an easy achievement and is one we are going to have to make sacrifices for and persevere in the fight to see come to be. We really do feel God’s favour with us at the moment and yet are still in the midst of several individual battles so your continued prayers for protection and employment are vital to the life of our church plant.

Lastly your prayers for us as we prepare to share very briefly about Harlow at next Sunday’s regional celebration would be welcome.
Thanks for reading and please do keep passing our web address to anyone you know in Harlow as people can make contact by filling in the form on it.

Have a great week and we’ll give you another update next week
Keep smiling
Ben & Clare

5th March Update

Afternoon everyone and hope all is well. Thanks for your continued support which is warmly received.

The past week saw us visit Jubilee Church which meets in Enfield Cineworld last Sunday and to date this was one of our highlights as not only did we meet with God but also many friendly and encouraging people. Afterwards a few of us shared some food and grabbed some time together which was great.

We have been busy working on getting some flyers printed and we should be in a position to distribute a few of these next week once they return from the printers as well as purchasing a surprise gift for everyone who will be at the forthcoming regional event on 21^st March!

Please pray for fruit from these ventures as we are determined to build a significant large local church for Jesus’ glory and so meeting people is key for us. Google are working on our website to ensure it is listed for search engines to find so hopefully that will be another method by which some of the 90,000 people of Harlow can come across us!

We would still appreciate prayers for health and jobs as James still hasn’t been able to move to Harlow although there is a possible opening which he’s hoping might materialise.

Please do keep checking our website – www.harlowchurchplant.org as we are working hard to keep the news and BLOG up to date plus the videos are a good watch too.

Have a great week and don’t forget to keep mentioning us to your friends, family and anyone else you meet!

Keep smiling

Ben & Clare

Update week ending 26th February

Afternoon at the end of a wet week here in Essex. We hope you are all well and thanks for your continued support in our church planting adventure!

This week has seen some of the Harlow Group men enjoy a men’s day entitled ‘Men of Stortford’ at Community Church where we are based which was a great day. In addition Adrian Holloway (from ChristChurch London ) came to speak at Community Church last Sunday and inspired us in the area of making Jesus known which was very timely for us as Harlow Group, as we’ve felt God nudging and reminding us that Harlow is a town consisting of 90,000 people the majority of whom need to know that there is a God who loves them, died for their sin and who wants a personal relationship with them.

In response we’re considering how to get to know more people around our town and will keep you posted once things materialise more but we’d appreciate your prayers for us as we seek to go purposefully into Harlow to grow our group.
In addition if you could continue to pray for God’s protection over us particularly regarding health and employment we’d massively value that. Plus one final specific request this week would be a job for James in our group as he urgently needs employment in order to move and join us here in Harlow all the time.

Please do keep checking our website – www.harlowchurchplant.org as we are adding new bits all the time plus it has our BLOG, News, Dates and even some videos about Newfrontiers

Have a great week and don’t forget to keep mentioning us to your friends, family and anyone else you meet!

Keep smiling
Ben & Clare

Facebook Group Update

Afternoon everyone, welcome to those of you who are new and we trust this message finds you well. Thanks again for continued support for the Newfrontiers Harlow Church Plant, we wouldn’t be where we are without your prayers and support.

We are planning to maintain these Facebook updates in addition to the BLOG part of our website (www.harlowchurchplant.org) which contains lots more info besides these updates.

Since we last wrote things have been tough and it’s fair to say we know we’re in a battle! As a group we have faced what seems like more than our fair quota of illness and employment hassles! That said God has been good to us and kept us going as well as confirming our total and utter dependence on Him. God has spoken to us regularly as a group letting us know He is with us and that we have favour with Him.

We have now established regular Thursday evening meetings which are starting to become exciting times as God is speaking to us and confirming our purpose, direction and that He is most definitely with us!

We’d still appreciate loads of prayer for wisdom and strength to keep going as the number of tasks seem to be escalating and time by contrast seems to be non-existent! We’d also appreciate prayer for God’s protection on us as a group and for jobs to appear / go better.

Lastly we’d love to meet some new people and grow in number. We have some obvious ‘holes’ in our group which we’re trusting God to fill so if you or anyone you know feels called to join us then please have a look at our website (www.harlowchurchplant.org) and get in touch via there or the Facebook group.

Have a great weekend, God bless

Ben & Clare

5th February Update from Facebook Group

Greetings everyone and welcome to those of you for whom this is your first contact.

Thanks for taking time to read this, for remembering us in prayer and as always we sincerely pray that you will be blessed in return. God has been impressing on us the importance and need for prayer and more and more we are realising that we are totally dependent upon Him, trusting in His grace and mercy and brought up short with our total inability to make things happen.

Since the last update lots seems to have happened although it’s only been 2 weeks. We have got a website up and running so can be found at www.harlowchurchplant.org and whilst parts of this are still changing we are hoping to use this more and more in the future so keep an eye on it.

We have also finished having our initial coffee and chat times and so are excited at the prospect of running ‘Harlow group’ every Thursday evening in various homes. We’d really value your prayers for these as they are crucial for us to build together and truly become ‘friends together on a mission’

For anyone still considering popping along we’d encourage you to get in touch! The plan is still to meet from 7 till 9 including simple food and a great time together focusing on Jesus knowing it’s all about Him!

This week we’ll be looking at what God has spoken to us prophetically so it promises to be a significant and good evening!

Please do pray that God would not only direct our Thursday evening meetings but that He would also add to our number particularly in areas where we are currently weak. Harlow contains around 90,000 people and Jesus has an inheritance here of many people who yet don’t know Him, the challenge for us is massive but we are trusting in God to direct and connect us with the right people.

In addition please could you pray for protection over us as a group as we’ve had medical scares, ill health and just lots of things not going as we planned in the past couple of weeks too!

Thanks for your continued support and please don’t forget to have a look at www.harlowchurchplant.org

Keep smiling

Ben & Clare

Facebook Group Update from 23rd January

Hello again or for the first time to those of you who have joined us in the past couple of weeks since our last update. Sorry for the slight delay with this update but lots has been happening, we’ve tried to incorporate the key points below. Also apologies to those of you who have joined the group who we don’t know and haven’t sent a personal message to. With the groups size now it is hard to determine who is new and who isn’t so if we’ve missed you please drop us a reply to this update.

Thanks for taking time to read this, for remembering us in prayer and as always we sincerely pray that you will be blessed in return.

What’s happened in the past 2 weeks then? Well primarily we’ve had the privilege of meeting lots of new people, from outstanding leaders in our town, people at Community Church Bishop’s Stortford and fresh faces at our Harlow Group drop in sessions.

Last Sunday we had the opportunity to introduce ourselves at Community Church Bishop’s Stortford where we are now based. We have been really encouraged by people from CCBS bringing words, pictures and encouragement from God for us which were extremely similar to previous words given in other settings. God is good!

Harlow Group is now up and running and we have our 4^th getting to know one another session planned for Sunday 31^st January from 3 till 4pm and then from February are aiming to meet weekly on Thursdays from 7 till 9.

If you or anyone you know of might be interested in joining or meeting us please can you forward this message onto them or ask them to get in contact via our Facebook Group page as we’d love to meet them.

We really feel we have the favour of God with us at present and would ask for specific prayer that this continues and that we honour Jesus in all we do. We would also ask you to pray that God would continue to add people to us and cause people who are living in Harlow but not part of an existing church to hear of our existence and get in touch.

Have a great week and we’ll have another update shortly plus our website should also be up and running in the next couple of weeks too.

Keep smiling
Ben and Clare