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Summer Project and Goodbyes
Well, what an amazing week we had down in London on the Ichthus Summer Project!
We had a brilliant time making new friends and getting to know some of the people in the community. We were split across the three teams for the week (Forest Hill, New Life and North London) and were engaged in lots of different activities, ranging from first-contact evangelism, giving away free water, coffee and tea, to running kids clubs and putting on free BBQs and fun days. It was great to meet more Ichthus friends and get to know people from all over the country (and beyond – there were delegates from Germany, Switzerland and Norway among us!) and to get alongside each other to worship God every day, and serve each other as we sought to engage in the communities where we were on patch.
There are so many stories I could tell here but don't have time or room to tell them all! The team Becky and I were on in Forest Hill saw 9 people come to faith in one day and one person was healed in Jesus' name! The following day we went back to follow up and ended up talking to even more people in the community and saw another 3 people give their lives to Jesus and another healing! God is SO good and SO faithful.
On the final day before we left we all went to visit the congregations where we had been serving all week and joined in with their celebration services. I did the children's sermon (looking at Jesus' second coming) and we used a gospel choir arrangement that Becky had put together with the whole team earlier in the week to illustrate the joy we have to look forward to in heaven when Jesus returns! Before we left we went to see Jay Smith at Speaker's Corner and shout for JESUS, which was very interesting and inspired many of us to engage in conversations of our own with others there.
It was sad to say goodbye to the friends we'd made, especially those who were staying on for the second week, but it's been great to stay updated as people tell us how things have been progressing in the last week. We saw God move in some amazing ways and were amazed at the fruit we saw as people made definite commitments to Christ and also how receptive people were to talk about God –some seeds have definitely been sown for others to reap the harvest in future!
The last week has involved recovering from Summer Project, and we've begun the redecorating of the Appleby Rooms in St. Oswald's Institute with Paul. It's been hard work but the place is mid-transformation and it's brilliant to see the changes. I can't wait to see it when it's done and we can compare before/after photos! It was our last coffee morning at both McNally and Cunningham Place, and sad to say goodbye to so many friendly and familiar faces we've grown to know and love over the year. At Cunningham a couple that we met through the June Project came along for the first time, so that was a real encouragement from all the hard work that was invested last month.
It's hard to believe that we are just a week away from the end of the internship. In so many ways it feels like it began only a few months ago, but as we begin the de-briefing process we can see how far we've all come, both as a team and how God's changed us and individuals and helped us to grow over the last 10 months. We have so much to be thankful for!
Thank you so much for your prayers when we were down in London. It was a great way to go back to our roots at the beginning of the internship when we were on mission in Chiselhurst, and we were so thankful for God's protection and provision. Thank you for your support and grace with us, and for reading these logs and praying for us, we can't thank you enough.
God bless,
Jeanna :-)