We are in full swing of the festival - and while it is pouring down with rain outside (I actually had to go and buy myself some rain boots this morning), I thought to quickly type an update inside our Media cabin (my office for the week) where it is dry!
All of our office staff moved down to Wadebridge last Saturday, 27 July. Since then I've been staying with "friends", Sophie and her family, and they have been amazing. I've just met them, but it feels like I've known them for years. We are one in Christ, aren't we? And how wonderful to once again experience that! As for the rest of last week our time was spent setting up the Creation Fest site, ready for kick off on Saturday 3 August and in the evenings we did an outreach in Boscastle. The outreach was kicked off by a Sunday morning service at the 'new' church (The Ship), with Sunday School (BLESSED!!), followed by another 3 days of outreach. We took our new "The Wave" bus and parked it in the parking lot. For the kids, we did some kids crafts in front of the bus and watched movies inside of the bus (weather isn't always great here in the UK :)). Across the road, we had some of our Creation Fest artists performing outside The Cobweb Inn Pub. The people really enjoyed it... The Gospel was shared... Met some of the local people as well as some holidaymakers. Praise the Lord for a blessed outreach. As for Creation Fest - the site got set up - in time - for opening at 4PM on Saturday. We are 2 days into the festival, and it has been SO GOOD! The Lord is doing an amazing work and what a wonderful privileged to be part of it.
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| Kids Craft at The Wave Bus |
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| The inside of the bus - watching movies |
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| Live Music at The Cobweb Inn |
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| Creation Fest Main Stage |
All of these experiences are very new to me - the organisation of the festival but especially the Sunday School part - doing it alone (although I've had amazing help from Lorna all the way from South Africa - THANK YOU!). Its been such an experiential journey... preparing the lesson, the games, the worship, the crafts... but then also not knowing how many kids will show up, what their ages would be and getting to know the kids here. I am really learning that I can't do it out of my own strength and knowledge (which is very little anyway)... But with Christ, all things are possible. During our Creation Fest Prayer Meeting, Psalm 127:1-2 came to mind:
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labour in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman stays awake in vain.
It is vain for you to rise up early,
To sit up late,
To eat the bread of sorrows;
For so He gives His beloved sleep.
I can now rest in the fact that it is the Lord building the 'new' church and Sunday School. He promised to instruct and teach me... 1 Corinthians 1:9 says: "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord". He just called me to be faithful and obedient - His Spirit is doing the work in the heart of the kids at Sunday School.
The Lord Jesus is amazing and He loves you... Do you know Him? Do you have a relationship with Him? Do you love Him?
Please continue to keep Creation Fest this week in your prayer... Pray that the people that are not in a relationship with Jesus will get to know Him, accept His love and surrender their lives to Him. For their eyes to be open to the Truth. And please continue to pray for "The Ship" and "The Ship Sunday School"
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