It was another good weekend. Friday was rainy here, apparently very unusual in June, Saturday cloudy and Sunny sunnier. We had some people round for a meal on Saturday afternoon - including Yannick and Marie from Rennes, and Rusty and Janet who are from here but soon to be in France for 3 months. When they arrived Rusty and Yannick recognised each other having met in France before - God is amazing at orchestrating things as we had no idea of this beforehand.
Saturday evening we went to the drum circle worship session which was great fun, uplifting and inspiring; you could feel the presence of God.There was a group who led the time, but anyone could bring their Bongo Drum (? Jembay) to join in. Paul West got to participate on the big drum and led the drumming for a bit- he thought he was already in heaven. There is so much variety of creative expression here in music, drama, dance art etc. We plan to develop similar in NKCC - get those bongos ready! Hopefully the short video clip will give you some idea of what we experienced.
After that we went to the Sundial bridge and had a drink at a cafe there, sitting outside listening to some live music - God is good.

Sunday morning Kris Vallotton spoke - again I thought this was a brilliant message, challenging and thought provoking. I would recommend listening to the podcast. Sunday evening Paul Manwaring spoke an excellent message and then we set off to In N Out burger where we met some South Africans who are part of a church in London; we had an excellent chat with them and discovered many common links - when I mentioned Julian Adams, one of them said "I am supposed to be meeting him !".
Small world or divine appointment ??

Another thought from the Healing Rooms. There is a man working there whose wife died of breast cancer not long ago - he has now made it his aim to see 1 million woman healed of this disease. He has prayed for a few women and recently saw his first, complete, medically confirmed healing. What a great tribute to this man and his wife, and also to God who wants to give us victory over sickness.

Last year there was a youth event in Atlanta (Jesus Culture) and some of the young people went into town to speak to people and pray for them. Some of them went into a department store and prayed for a young man who had broken his neck in a car accident about 6 weeks previously - he was quadriplegic (paralysed in all four limbs) and in a wheelchair. He was prayed for and there in the department store he got out of his wheelchair and walked. We have recently received reports that this young man has now been signed up to play for a soccer team. Amazing !