About half way through last week I was beginning to wonder how mad we must have been to sign up for Fastforward, the season of prayer and fasting taking place in the UK Salvation Army between January and May and on the same week-end launch Messy Church at the corps. Coupled with this Alan and I were away at Divisional Officers Retreat most of the week so preparation time was limited.
Now it is Sunday night and we're all shattered but feeling really blessed and excited about all that we have experienced in God's presence this week-end. The Holy Spirit ministered in a very gentle but firm way, through our times of prayer and worship. Our guest for the week-end Cadet Xander Coleman led the whole corps in worship this morning with just the right message and inspired response time. Overall we really felt that the Lord was affirming that our future is in his hands and that there is much to hope for.
And as if to say that the future starts now, it was just wonderful to see 20 adults, two teenagers and 9 children coming along to Messy Church. Ok the numbers are not huge but to us it was a real answer to prayer and represents a real breakthrough in the lives of some individuals.
So maybe it wasn't such a mad idea after all!
God bless
Carol
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