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An amazing Project!
Yes, the June Project has been and the June Project has gone and...it was amazing! Durham, Newton Hall and Gilesgate were well and truly taken over as we had over 120 willing delegates in classy white t-shirts and many more participants setting out to do our bit of God’s work in our community. It was great to have people not only from Kings, but from other churches as well! So apart from having great outfits and lots of people what exactly did we get up to I hear you ask...I shall attempt to tell you...brace yourselves!
The project began on Wednesday with a packed day of worship, brilliant teaching from James Treasure, and training for some of the activities we would be involved. On this day we were also split into our 12 different teams, each one specialising in a different area of the project. These ranged from my team which was street performance, to sport, working with the elderly or youth, worship or healing on the streets, painting and more! We had the opportunity in our groups to spend time together and pray about what we were about to embark upon! The day ended with a commissioning service. All in all this was a great way to start the project.
Days 2 and 3 in the June project house...some faithful and keen delegates made the most of an optional 7.30 am start to these days by blessing tired commuters through giving out coffees at the station. The rest of the days consisted of various exciting activities; gardening in Gilesgate and Newton Hall (we managed to do over 30 by the end of the project!), painting garages, singing in Sherburn Hospital care home for the elderly, an afternoon tea in Gilesgate, two different youth events (involving a football cage, nail art, and a live band), Orchard (a children and parents group) in the park, flyering for events, worship on the streets, first contact evangelism, football showings on a big screen in 3 locations and After hours!
Saturday was another jam-packed day with lots of different great events going on. Lou and Jenny compiled an amazing ‘art space’ in the Gates shopping centre with pieces of art from different members and friends of Kings. Some of the resident cells had organised different events for the day; there was litter picking in Bear Park and on Claypath. We had a BBQ and fun day in Newton Hall and Gilesgate, a Neighbourhood Tea Party up in Mark and Ruth Bonnington’s front garden and Alan Rose led a nature walk in Neville’s Cross. In the town centre there was more worship on the streets as well as a team offering the chance for people to get prayer for healing and my team were doing street performance. Then all the hard work ended with a well deserved ‘RSVP’ style party for everyone involved, who amazingly still had energy to pull out some stunning moves on the dance floor!
So, as you can see there were loads of different things going on and many, many people involved, yet the project ran incredibly smoothly (largely due to logistical orchestration of the likes of Sarah Tripp, Chris Juby, Andy Nunn, Paul Burgess and Ed Spencer) and people seemed to be really blessed by the work we did. We heard stories throughout the week of God moving in loads of different ways; by answering so many of our prayers, through delegates and participants having the chance to chat, pray with and show love to people who are really lonely or in difficult situations, through people becoming Christians and being healed, through people feeling really blessed by having their garden done for them or from hearing some beautiful singing. It seems that so much fruit has come out of June Project 2010 already and there are so many stories to be told but no space so I’d really encourage you to find someone who was involved and ask them about it! God has been amazing to us and the community here this week and he deserves all the praise!!
There’s still so much more to say but I shall move on...
Prayer Requests for next week...
- For all of us interns as we head down to London to do another week of mission with the Ichthus church in Forest Hill
- For Andy Symmons as he’s working doing Christian outreach at Glastonbury music festival this week before joining us in London (prayer for energy would be especially good as he’s got a lot of all night shifts!)
- For those interns who are making decisions about next year and we can thank God as he’s been really faithful in helping plans come together for a number of us.
Well I think I’ve gone on enough now, I shall leave it there...
Hope you have a good week
Bye!!
Jo
xxx