Christ Church Manchester News - 31st May 2010

So yesterday was a sad Sunday at Christ Church Manchester as it was the Mawson families last Sunday with us! Booooooo.

They are moving to Plymouth. I hear rumor that living by the sea, in an area with more sunshine and less rain than Greater Manchester is deeply rubbish. So I give them a couple of months before they decide that living in the Glorious North of England is by far the better option. Everybody repeat after me “SUNSHINE AND SEA IS RUBBISH. HILLS AND RAIN ARE AWESOME.” repeat this every morning 10 times and I promise everything will be ok…....

Prayer - We are going to run some prayer meetings. Why? Because prayer works and we have a bunch of stuff to ask God for and even more stuff to thank him for. We will have a series of three meetings at a variety of times and locations. You may see one prayer meeting at a time and place that is difficult for you but this shouldn’t cause you to panic. We are conducting a small experiment of running these meetings at different times to see what suits people best. This is not to say that we will then fix on one time and location for all prayer meetings until Jesus returns. No. We are flexible like a very very bendy thing.

The basic theme of these meetings is Momentum. It seems to me that as a church we are gaining some momentum (visitors, growth, salvation etc) and we want this to carry on and increase. I am expecting God to move, speak and blow our minds. You really don’t want to miss these. Seriously.

So the first Meeting will be on June 15th at 730pm. This will be held at a venue in the centre of Hyde. Stu Gosling will let you know more details as soon as he has them.
The second will be an early-ish Saturday morning thingy on July 3rd. I (Tim Simmonds) will let you know the time and location.
The third meeting will be an mid week early morning affair on July 12th. Alistair Metcalfe will let you know the time and location.

I honestly believe that when we pray God listens and gets involved.

Minan - Keep praying. She is making progress, but it is slow and painful. We want to see her healed and we want her Mum and Dad (Alex and Anna) to know God’s presence with them.

There will be no emails or blogs from me for a couple of weeks as we are going on holiday. We are going to Dorset and Cornwall where it is warm and sunny. I fully expect this warmth and sunshine to be really annoying.

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Christ Church Manchester News - 31st May 2010

So yesterday was a sad Sunday at Christ Church Manchester as it was the Mawson families last Sunday with us! Booooooo.