Thank you for the many prayers for us this past week! It was so encouraging for our launch team to be back together this Sunday and to sit under the preaching of the Word of God. I also found it encouraging when our team spent time praying before our meeting on Sunday; our hearts were so full as we thanked God for sustaining us through a long winter and for making a way for us to be together again.
I’m also so grateful that six visitors from the community came to join us on Sunday and were able to hear the Gospel and see the church in action. Please pray for them! Please keep praying for the launch team, too. I was so proud of each member of the launch team this Sunday for going all out to welcome everyone and show the love of Jesus. That’s God at work in us, and I praise Him for that.
And now for some snaps from the past week:
Set-up for this Sunday…the hall sanitized and the chairs ready!
A glimpse into intern life. 🙂 As Mez says, learning to serve the church involves cleaning toilets just as much as it involves reading books because learning to be a leader means learning to be a servant.
The church doors open on Sunday for the first time since Christmas! Chris and I greeted folks as they came in and hollered hello’s to folks passing by.
As the great Rich Mullins sang, “If I were a painter I do not know which I’d paint / The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints / There’s so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see.”
And lastly, the rhythms of scheme life. Walking to the shops after dinner to get milk for tea, bumping into folks on the streets along the way and chatting, praying for the Lord to use us ordinary people for His extraordinary Gospel.
Well, that’s all I have for now. I hope you have a joyous Resurrection Sunday, friends. In the midst of the darkness and sin and discouragement and death in the schemes, I can’t wait to sing my lungs out to Jesus this weekend.
He is risen; He is risen indeed,
Claire
Claire in Scotland 