The first few months of the year are a strange mix of work for me at 24-7. There’s usually a bit of a work ‘hangover’ after the busyness of our annual gathering and the annual appeal, and all of this intermingles with trying to get the previous year’s accounts audited, compiling the budget for the next financial year, and completing the financial year end.
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Christmas Creativity
One of the things I’m trying to make a little more time for in my hectic everyday living is creativity. And Christmas is a great excuse!
So, I just thought I’d share with you a couple of my recent years Christmas cards. Hope you like them.
Supporters Update
For an update on my work at 24-7 Prayer, please check out my latest supporters letter below.
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Thanks so much for your support!
God bless,
Pete
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Blessings
Speaking of being blessed, I just received a gift of some vouchers through the post that will make Christmas just that little bit easier on the old bank account.
Whoever you are, THANK YOU!
Riled
I had a quick pray this evening, and was struck again by something I started thinking about a couple of weeks ago. I receive a regular email from the mailing list of www.relevantmagazine.com. They often have some great articles, with a wide diversity of subject matter on following Jesus. Good stuff, check it out.
Anyway, one particular article included a tyrade from a writer berating their church members for going out and having nice meals with their friends one minute, and feeding homeless people a more meagre offering a few hours later.
Roundtable
As I type this, 50 of the key 24-7 leaders from across the nations are meeting to seek God, worship Him, tell stories of what He is doing around the globe, and pray.
We have two gatherings at 24-7 each year – the Roundtable, and the International Leaders Gathering. I’ll be making a few posts over the next few days, and we would really value your prayers for both of these gatherings. To begin with, I’m going to concentrate on the former, the Roundtable.
An amazing weekend
We’ve just had an amazing God filled weekend here in Reading. My church, Greyfriars, has been holding regular outreaches to people in the town centre, specifically around a vision to offer prayer for healing.
As I mentioned in a previous post, these times have been an incredible encouragement to me, due to the team of people from the church being released into their many different giftings. This mix came to the fore again this weekend, with many examples of the team working together to see God glorified.
One of the main characteristics of this particular weekend was the presence of New Zealander Craig Marsh. Craig was miraculously healed of cancer in 1999 – and I mean miraculously, God giving him a new stomach after his own had been surgically removed – and he was at Greyfriars to teach on healing and evangelism.
Craig had some great insights to share with us, and the weekend ended with him preaching and praying for people’s healing on the Sunday night. People were still being prayed for when Shirley and I left at 10, the service having started at 7. Definitely the longest service I’ve been to at Greyfriars, and probably one of the most memorable.
If you’re interested, you can hear Craig’s testimony here.
Reflection
For some time now, Shirley and I had set aside last weekend as a time to be quiet before God. Somehow life seems to crowd out such times to the point where I need to book them way in advance to make sure they happen. But when they do happen, they’re so good.
We took it easy in the morning , and then headed up to Douai Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery just to the south west of Reading. After a nice little picnic, we spent 3 hours or so just praying, listening and reading in the beautiful abbey church.
Now this is getting silly
We seem to be having a bit of a heatwave at the moment here in the UK. This was the temperature in the 24-7 office the other day. Excuse me while I expire…
Final Transmission
So, we’re all done – although for many on the teams the adventure is just beginning!
After a sligtly trying journey home in our borrowed (and misbehaving) minibus, I’m looking back over an amazing few days of people getting fired up about mission. Thanks so much for praying!
You can keep up with some of the teams on the 24-7 Mission site.