Come and join us at Westpoint!! 18th - 21st August 2011

In conversation the word 'camping' is guaranteed to evoke stories of high emotion.

Trapeze like balancing acts in the showers,
farmyard toilet stalls, giant insects, dreadful
weather and sleepless nights in freezing
temperatures

                                                             

There is a Jewish festival they call Sukkot which is enacted every Autumn. Its main feature involves leaving homes to live in huts with branches for roofs - a reminder to every Jew of their history of desert wanderings for 40 years. Another name for this festival is 'The Time of our Joy'

For me camping is a symbol of our faith - our lives fragile, vulnerable, open to elements. Yet around us are the wings of God's eternal love.

At Westpoint the church community is stripped bare of any wordly pretence - in a field and cow shed but lifting up God's name and seeking his glory. The time of our joy is before us

Lets us embrace it with open arms

Westpoint is Newfrontiers South and West Regional celebration weekend held at the Westpoint showground in Exeter, Devon

To book for Westpoint go to   http://www.togetheratwestpoint.org.uk/



Diary dates for July:

• 3rd July                 Guy preaching at Citygate church on Romans 7
• 7th July                  Pastors from India arrive in the UK
• 8th July                  Meeting together with Indian pastors and UK IndiaTeam
• 12th - 15th July   Together on a Mission in Brighton - the last one

• 18th July - 5th August                    Annual leave



First Iberian Peninsula

'From the ends of the earth we hear singing

Glory to the righteous one' Isaiah 24 v 16

Just return from our first Iberian conference  held in Portugal. Close to 200 people gathered from Madrid, Valencia, the South of Spain, Algarve, Porto and Penafiel and churches in the north of Portugal.

It was an exceptional time, beyond anything I had imagined.

It was amazing to:

-  hear the supernatural stones of God's great unfolding purposes in these nations,

- to be moved to tears at the faithfulness and courage of previous generations - and now to see new foot soldiers from the UK

- to be stirred in faith to see God's hand moving in a new way.

Teaching over the weekend was on Gods word, his spirit and the great expanding mission to reach cities in Iberia. There are 71 cities with over 100,000 population and we are currently in 3 of them.

Perhaps the highlight for me was the Sunday morning meeting where the Holy Spirit came in such power as we focused on the Valley of Dry Bones and cried out for bones to come together.

The icing on the cake was to set in a new Elder in Penafiel and see someone born again.

God is doing something remarkable in theses nations