God Central Church Harlow Update 24th May 2011

Well time has been going very quickly for us as we’ve been busy trying to establish God Central Church.

Since we last wrote in early May we’ve had some interesting events occur. We were unable to use the Playhouse for one of our meetings and so had to re-camp back to our back garden where we did church on picnic rugs and patio chairs! I often wondered how people such as Whitfield and Wesley preached to thousands in the open air and am still of the opinion God must have given them powerful lungs! That said God was good to us and we had a great afternoon.

We’ve also been blessed with further enquiries from people new to Harlow and those around the town who are considering joining us on our adventure. Please can you join us in praying this happens and also that we come into contact with more and more people in our town who will join us for the long term as we’re at an exciting yet critical time of trying to grow through 40 adults at present.

We’d also appreciate your prayers for protection for us as several of us are suffering with ill health and other major bits of life, so we’re really trusting Jesus to break through in several situations.

Finally if your free and could come and support us this coming Sunday from 4pm at the Harlow Playhouse as always you’d be extremely welcome!

Keep smiling and thanks for reading and praying
Ben, Clare and everyone at God Central Church – Harlow
www.Godcentralchurch.org

Newfrontiers God Central Church Harlow - Update 6th May

Thank you to everyone for your prayers and support. It’s been a busy time in God Central church as we’ve been transitioning from 2 to 3 life groups as well as taking a fresh look at how we do things.

We’ve also been busy leafleting new areas of Harlow, working on fine tweaking our website (www.Godcentralchurch.org) as well as going to weekly ‘us together’ meetings based at either the Harlow Study Centre or the Harlow Playhouse. (A full list of all our meeting dates can be found on our website.)

If you’re reading this and new to Harlow why not pop along to one of our meetings, details are on the website or you can e-mail us from there if you fancy a coffee and chat first.

Prayer requests would be for more of the presence of God, His favour to gather more people and see lives transformed by the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. In particular we are praying for men, families and musicians to help us in the next stage of establishing a significant church for the display of Jesus’ glory so if you or someone you know fits these categories please get in touch and lets have a coffee.

Thanks for reading and have a great day
Ben, Clare and everyone at God Central church

Newfrontiers God Central Church Harlow - Easter Celebration

Happy Easter and we trust this message finds you well.

Just a quick reminder and invitation to our Easter Sunday Celebration and Dedications in 2 days time.

We’re looking forward to worshipping our risen saviour and celebrating the new life He has given to us. During the service we’ll be dedicating both Truth and Amelia, 2 of our recent additions!

It would be great if you wanted to join us 4pm at the Harlow Playhouse and we have a gift for everyone coming too....

If you need directions or further information please take a look aat www.Godcentralchurch.org and if you can’t find what your looking for feel free to drop us a message from the website.

Keep smiling
Ben, Clare, Amelia and everyone at God Central Church

Newfrontiers God Central Church - Harlow. Update 1st April

Update 1St April

Firstly this isn’t an April fools message so please read on as we’d like to keep you informed of what’s been happening in the Life of God Central Church and would really value your prayers.

The last couple of weeks have been fairly tough as we seem to have encountered lots of illness within the church and a few people have also had tough personnel circumstances to cope with.

We’d really appreciate your prayers in light of this for healing and the power of God to breakthrough several circumstances.

We’d also appreciate prayer for staying on course on the mission we’re on of glorifying Jesus in Harlow and building big people for him. We’re very much in a transition at present looking towards weekly gatherings from Easter onwards building towards weekly Sundays before too much longer.
That means finding a new rhythm of doing things and we want this to be God’s rhythm for us not one we make up!

In particular we feel God has been speaking to us about 3 M’s to aide us on our mission.
Men & families
Musicians
Mature Christians
If you could join us in praying for these we’d be very grateful.

Thanks as always for reading and please see our website www.Godcentralchurch.org for more information including details of our Easter Celebration which will include the dedication of Truth & Amelia!

Keep smiling
Ben, Clare, Amelia and everyone @ God Central Church

Newfrontiers God Central Church - Harlow Update 18th March

Another couple of weeks have flown by and they’ve been busy for us here in Harlow. We’ve seen God answer prayers for both healing and the sale of our friends house in Braintree, plus gathered more people to God Central church!

We’re all excited about next Sunday, 27th March, as we’re back at Harlow Playhouse for another 4pm gathering and expecting great things of our God. If your around and want to pop along it would be really great to see lots of you.

We really feel an urgency to keep reaching out to people in Harlow so as always please if you are reading this and new to the town or know someone in Harlow who isn’t connected to an existing church then please get them to make contact via our website www.Godcentralchurch.org
Prayer points would be jobs and work for people within the church. Healing for some of us (including our daughter Amelia who’s still suffering with a nasty virus), and the continued favour and presence of God.

As an aside we’ve just downloaded the new Passion worship album ‘Here for you’ and would thoroughly recommend it!

Thanks as always for reading
Keep smiling
Ben, Clare, Amelia and everyone at Newfrontiers God Central Church
www.Godcentralchurch.org

Newfrontiers God Centtral Church - Harlow Update 6th March

We hope this message finds you well. We’ve just finished a Regional Newfrontiers Weekend which has been great catching up with good friends but more importantly hearing stories of the exciting things God is doing around this part of England.

For our part God has really been blessing us here in Harlow as we seek to build a significant church for His glory. Last week at our ‘Playhouse Gathering’ we had new faces amongst us again and some great chats which we hope will start some significant friendships. God was really with us and reminding us of our commission to ‘arise and build for the favour of God is with us’

In addition our new website, wwwGodcentralchurch.org, is now being found by search engines etc and we’ve already seen enquiries come from it!

Next week we’re back out flyering around Harlow as we want to be obedient to God’s call to go and gather more people. Please pray for us in this that we will once again connect with the people God has in His plan for us.

Some prayer requests would be
Healing of one of our guys foot from an ulcer
Jobs for some of our people and prospective people
House sale for our friends Colin & Eunice
Gathering of key people to help us build through 40 towards 50

Thanks for reading, we know it’s a little longer but honestly there’s so much going on.....

Keep smiling
Ben, Clare & everyone at God Central
www.Godcentralchurch.org

Newfrontiers God Central Church - Update 11th February

Update11th February

Lots keeps happening here in Harlow and many things to be grateful to God for.
• We have connected with another 2/3 people round the town and are starting to build friendships with them.
• We also have our first Alpha course starting on Sunday with 2 guests on it.
• We are also close to going live with our new website as well so as you can probably guess things are still pretty full on!

We’d value your prayers for the above plus for God to connect us with key people who can join us to build a significant church for His glory. We could really do with some good people, people as well as men and musicians to help us build a really strong church.

Our next Playhouse Sunday Afternoon Gathering is coming up on the 27th February and we could really do with some friendly support so if you’re able to join us we’d really value it.

Also please keep praying for our friends Colin & Eunice who are still trying to sell a house in Braintree to relocate to Enfield as per an earlier blog.

Thanks for reading and praying
Keep smiling
Ben, Clare, Amelia and everyone at God Central Church
www.Godcentralchurch.org