Updates from our team in India.

"We heard lots of testimonies from people at the conference, who had been healed and touched by the message."

Clare Taylor and her team have sent us news from India...

“The women’s conference has now finished, all our preaches touched hearts! We prayed for the fire of God to fall and people were baptised in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues for the first time. We heard lots of testimonies from people at the conference, who had been healed and touched by the message. There are 2 days of ministry left and amongst other things we are distributing clothes for railway children, please pray we make the most of this opportunity! We begin the long journey home on Sunday 6am. Love from Clare and the team.”

CCM India Trip: The Lowdown

"We are so excited and thank for all your support, encouragement and prayers!"

The team have been furiously planning for months, and finally are leaving for India!

God has been awesome! In preparation for the India trip next week there has been fundraising in the shape of a charity ‘come dine with me’, selling christmas cards and other events which have raised up over £900! Wow! Find out the final total this sunday…. Its just 4 days till our CCM mission team go out to Andra Pradesh to work with Reap India. Here is a very rough itinerary so you can pray for us:

Tue 29 Nov leave UK. Arrive Wed 30 in Chennai. Travel Thurs 01 Dec, by train to Tenali (2am).
Friday 2 Dec visit Leprosy Camp at Vetapalem, encouraging people, giving mercy meal, tending sick.
Saturday 3rd Dec At Sekuru old people’s home. laying first brick for new bathroom facilities and distribuing new clothes.
At new life centre, giving sewing machines and releasing one girl from the red light area.
Sunday 4 Dec Preaching at Sunday service at Local Church. Evening: Dedicting Gorton’s bore well.
Monday 5 Dec 07.00am travel to Markapur for Women’s conference. 2 sessions - Clare and Julia preaching.
Tuesday 6 Dec Second Day women’s Conference Christine and Sue preaching
Wednesday 7 Dec Last Day women’s Conference Julia and Clare preaching
Thursday 8 Dec Reap India all staff meeting with preach, evening bore well dedication
Friday 9 Dec TBC and outreach meeting in evening at Valabhapuram (Onesim)
Saturday 10 Dec morning Medical Clinic.  afternoon: visit Balatejassu railway boys, give them new clothes.
Evening outreach & mercy camp at Ratnalacheruvu(Ratcatcher slum)
Sunday 11 Dec 06.20am Leaving to Chennai, At 21:40 depart Chennai for UK.

We are so excited and thank for all your support, encouragement and prayers!
Love Clare, Chris, Julia, Libby, Sue and Vicky

The Big CCM Day Out

"If you want a lift get to Luther King House at 10am"

This Sunday (27th November 2011) is the first ever Big CCM Day Out! This means that the people of CCM:City will be boarding minibuses, cars, trains and horses to make there way to CCM:East for the morning meeting. We are one church that meets in a number of different places. As a church we want to be hyperlocal and city wide. This means that we work hard to reach into specific communities and areas whilst being part of something much bigger.

This means we need to be very intentional in getting everyone together so that we can be one community. Thus The Big CCM Day Out! So on Sunday we are going to worship, pray, listen to teaching, eat, and hangout. Sound good? Of course it does.

How do I get there?

So the practicalities are very simple. If you need a lift to CCM:East then get to Luther King House at 10am where there will be a minibus and a bunch of cars. You will be returned to Luther King House at around 1:30pm.

If you have any questions please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call him on 07961233768

There will be no evening meeting this week.

Interview: Victoria Armstrong, founder of The Oasis Centre

An Interview with Victoria Armstrong on her experience working with the disadvantaged at The Oasis Centre in Gorton, East Manchester.

  Oasis Centre Interview by ecstasyonion

Open Mic Video

"80 people a night, tons of talented musos, stacks of Non-Christians and one very very happy Tim."

We have run monthly Open Mics after CCM:City for about 18 months. To start with I organised them and they were rubbish. Seriously, 5 people in a room listening to some skinny white indie-kid play Switchfoot or John Mayer. Nasty.

Then Jonny joined our church and boom. 80 people a night, tons of talented musos, stacks of Non-Christians and one very very happy Tim.

Have a butchers -

Joshua and the great wall of Jericho

"At this the walls would crumble and the city would fall."

Stu Gosling writes that In the book of Joshua we can read the amazing account of the fall of one of the ancient worlds best known cities, Jericho, and what makes this account great is the manor in which this well guarded and fortified city was taken.

Joshua, the leader of the people of Israel, had plenty of good loyal fighting men, weapons and horses at his disposal, he was a force to be reckoned with; yet we read that it would be none of these things that would bring about the destruction of such an impressive city.

Joshua is simply told to march around the city for seven days, on the seventh he would have to march around seven times. For the first six days he was to march the people around in complete silence, then on the seventh day, after all was done, the priests were to lead the people, by the blowing of the trumpets, into shouting as loud as they could, exalting God’s name. At this the walls would crumble and the city would fall.

When we look at the places we live and work in we see all the well intended government initiated plans to build communities together, reduce crime and generally improve the physical aspects of the community with nice housing, more facilities etc; we here lots of talk about a ‘big society’, all hoping that somehow this will change the way people think and feel. Like Joshua and his army this seems the obvious answer, we seem to have all we need to deal with the problem, but soon we realize however that the real problem is not the physical aspects and problems we see, but the fact that unless a mans heart is changed no system in the world will change any of the problems we see in the lives of the people around us. Jericho was brought down by God, he is the one that brought that wall crashing down, he alone was the only one that could change the situation and bring victory to the people of God. Joshua simply had to listen and be obedient to what God said.

With this in mind we too will only see change in the community we live in if like Joshua we listen to God and do it his way, not in our own strengths or initiatives.

So this week, as you may be aware, we are gathering to pray continually for 24/7, starting on Friday the 21st of Oct to Fri 28th Oct, kicking of and ending with two fantastic prayer meetings on the Fridays. God has told us to pray throughout the week for the lives of the people around us so that we too will see some big walls come down in the lives of the people we serve. It will be a great week, So please come along to Trinity Baptist in Gorton and pray, not only will it effect the lives of others around us, it will effect your own life too!