“Loving where your life is”

8th – 15th November 2009.

This week was an amazing opportunity to focus on reaching out to those around us. Thank you to all of you who made a sacrifice for this week, I know for many it meant giving up your lunch break to attend one of the groups or getting up that little bit earlier in the morning. In addition a very special thank you to those who organised a group and actively made the week happen.

The week wasn’t a week filled with the classic kind of miracles, it wasn’t the Summer Blast reaching out to a whole community, but that was never the point. It was about relationships within the church and looking outward, about challenging attitudes to workplaces and the school run. We wanted to allow God into the mundane Monday to Friday and worship him through our daily lives and this did happen.

Through the weeks new relationships were started, old ones were renewed and opportunities to help those around us were encountered. I believe this wasn’t just a coincidence these things happened because we were expecting them and actively praying that they would occur. Personally I was taken surprise by a conversation I ended up having with a new face within the City Life building. Normally I would have shied away from this as I always find these sorts of conversations awkward, but the focus of the week helped me to engage in the conversation in a way that is unusual for me and I felt I was really led in what I should say by the Holy Spirit.

The hope is that this will not become something we once did, but just the start of awareness from each of us of the mission field we each access on a daily basis. We want the attitude from the week to spill over into our lives on a longer time scale. To keep that expectancy and receptiveness to new things and to new opportunities when God opens the door.

The way the week was structured means that each group knows only the stories of what happened within their gathering and so I would like to encourage you to leave your feedback and stories on the website for others to see what really happened across the city.

May God bless you and may his blessings continue to flow through you. Let us be a light in the darkness and may we shine brightly with the good news we have to share.

Zoe

CLC Admin, 19/11/2009