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News and excitement
Hello and welcome to the bonus edition of Internlog! That's right, ladies and gentlemen, today you get not just one, but two weeks' worth of news and excitement!
The Kings Bonfire Party was a huge, (one might say 'roaring') success, and a fun time was had, with music, refreshments, marshmallow-roasting and most of all, a warm, crackling bonfire at the Bonningtons' house. It was great to see so many people there!
We are all settling into our placements, with some of us now beginning to establish ourselves volunteering with Aquila Way in Gateshead.
The prayer evening at Waddington Street was a great time to feed back some of the things God has been doing in the areas we'd been praying for last month, and to focus on the work that is going on with international students. We also prayed for peoples' mission fields in their places of work and that God might give opportunities for them to witness to colleagues and the people they come into contact with.
Last Friday we went out and did some outreach in the city centre and around the Market Square. We took questionnaires and engaged people in conversations about spiritual beliefs, God and church. We had some amazing conversations with people and are praying that those we've talked to would be challenged about how they view God and Christianity, as we are challenged about the way we come across to others and the ways we represent God to them.
Last weekend's 'Saturday Project' involved painting the inside of the house of one of the older members of the Kings congregation up in Gilesgate. We're really excited about the ways that we can be reaching out to people and sharing the gospel through serving them in the community.
This week was a 'reading week' which meant that everyone had a week off from the Internship teaching programme. It's about half-way through for us on the Internship so it was great to get a bit more time to chill out, lie in and be more flexible when meeting up with people.
We took a (10 mile) walk out to Finkle Priory on Thursday, which was really lovely and beautiful (pictures on Facebook and hopefully *here* later). It was brilliant to be able to simply chill out and spend some social time together. We've been missing that since our induction weeks! Unfortunately we *slightly* misjudged how much time it would take to get back and were rather appallingly late returning for Theology 101. Thanks to everyone who had to put up with that - your patience and graciousness with us when we were so exhausted was much appreciated!
Sunday's *TASTE AND SEE* Guest Service in the evening was a great success! We had about 25-30 new people turn up and the Riverside Cafe was packed out! I think that we'd all like to say a massive thank you to everyone who was part of that, for all your help, energy, encouragement and effort on the night, with the planning and with the pack-down! It was really great to see so many people there to hear Caz speak on John 21 and Jesus appearing to seven disciples and sharing breakfast with them. The whole evening looked and sounded amazing, and we got some really positive feedback and some people who wanted to discuss Christianity and the talk. Praise God, he's so good!!
Please be praying for:
- Our placements - that we would be able to work well alongside others on the teams and get to know the people we're working with
- Our energy levels as we hit the middle of term The response we've had to the guest service - that people would be challenged and that God would open their hearts!
Thanks for reading, and tune in next week!
Jeanna :)