Quite a few people have contacted myself wondering what has happened to the eletters, website, blog entries, and visits to gatherings. Well I am still here on planet Earth! Good stuff has been happening and doors opening!
1. I have currently picked up a contract with the Community Probation Service for three days a week over seeing Offenders doing community work. I have found it quite a learning curve and have put the trust a little on hold while I get into the swing of things. I am not sure if i will use this as a short term thing or let it be long term thing yet.
2. As some of you know, our home was robbed and trashed last week, and all the Electronics taken, so it has been hard to operate on the Internet untill all the gear has been replaced. Thanks so much for all the concern expressed.
3. The gathering we were mainly involved with came to a natural conclusion at the end of last year. We are currently being very organic (or haphazard!) in what we are doing in regards to gathering. There has been quite a bit of interest in starting a new gathering / simple church, but I guess we want some conviction before we kick off something new. We learned a lot of lessons from our first simple church and want to put those lessons to good use, in what ever we decide to do next.
4. I put out some feelers in regards to seeing if there was interest in trying a more co-op type of gathering. There was positive interest but a tad erratic and with not alot of momentum so we have put the idea on hold at the moment.
5. We have been incredibly blessed by a gift of $20000 to us. We are considering using this as an opportunity of using this as seed money to establish a business that we can use to create cash flow for the trust (something like a lawn mowing business). Please pray for guidance in this. We have been presented with a great opportunity as long as good decisions are made.
6. I have stopped the eletter as i don't have a lot else to say at the moment and have stopped the website as it just was not me. The blog has been going great including hitting number 1 on the blog.co.uk rankings a few times.
7. In regards to visiting gatherings, i have been doing this a bit less because of time constraints (I work quite a few weekends). How ever I (we) are more than happy to come along, especially in regards to prayer, prophetic and laying hands on the sick. I only ask for a good feed to maintain my weight!
8. I am still enormously passionate about Simple Church and living a Simple Church Lifestyle, and have heaps of expectation about the future in regards to this, and felt called to exercise the gifts I have in this sphere. the actual outworking of this seems to be just learning to take a step at a time.
