1^st-3^rd Sept | Revival Alliance Conference, London

11th Sept |Ice Cream Sundae , Oxford

24th-25th Sept | Level 3 Signing Course |  Worcester

2nd Oct | HBC , Oxford | All –age Harvest

10th Oct |Ice Cream Sundae , Oxford

14th-16th Oct | Destiny Weekend | WHBC, Manchester See Video

20th Oct | Spring Harvest Kids Leaders Retreat | Nuneaton

22nd-23rd | Level 3 Signing Course |  Worcester

24th-27th Oct | Short Family Holiday | Wales? Devon?

28th Oct | Kids Prayer Event | Westminster London tbc

Prayer Points

- Nick is trying to restructure the website behind the scenes—this will probably need lots of prayer!

- Kath has just started her new year one class.

- We’ve sold our house and hopefully moving at some point—at time of writing we haven’t yet said yes to one to buy.

- Meetings with event leaders for 2012: Spring Harvest, Faith Camp & River Camp.

Space Adventure Holiday Club was a great success this year.  With two weeks of programme and over 50 leaders it was superb to work together as a local church to show God’s love to our local community.  For the first time we ran our Children’s Ministry Experience See the video:

Another Faith Camp & Grapevine are over and yet again God has been great.  We have countless testimonies and stories of lives changed over the year and during the weeks events.

Emily said: “I went to Grapevine this year. Thanks for making Powerpack
so amazing! I’m grateful to you all for making it so fab! God bless you”

See the Faith Camp Review

Here are a handful of a list of over 100 testimonies.

In Powerpack God healed my eyes.  Using the Kingdom Crest from last year God helped me to be brave and tell everyone about him.
I became a Christian in Powerpack.
I went through the fire tunnel and felt like I had fire in my hands.
At listen and go, God gave me a picture of a man with glasses and trainers. Also that he was on unit 12, so we went to unit 12 and we found him and prayed for him.

I had a stye in my eye and so I got prayed for and now I’m healed. 

I’ve had asthma since I was born, I got prayed for in powerpack and now I’m healed. 

29th July-6th Aug | Faith Camp, Peterborough | Holy Fire – Exploring the life of Elijah

8th-12th Aug | HBC , Oxford | Space Adventure – Breakthroughs, Black holes and Boldly go!

15th & 19th Aug | Barton, Oxford

24th -30th Aug | Grapevine, Lincoln

1st-3rd Sept | Revival Alliance Conference, London

11th Sept |Ice Cream Sundae , Oxford

All Sept | HBC , Oxford | Leading Transformers on Sunday mornings

2nd Oct | HBC , Oxford | All –age Harvest

10th Oct |Ice Cream Sundae , Oxford

 Please pray for:

The new Children’s Ministry Experience team with us over the two weeks in Oxford (7th-19th August).

An openness to His Spirit to help the children encounter God powerfully and significantly.

Good preparation, that clearly follows God’s lead.

The after-effects of these events as children settle back into homes, school and life, that they will impact their world, grow in faith and build on the events of the summer.

For those who don’t know about prayer spaces, a school allocates a room/space for the team to set up prayer zones. Then class by class kids arrive to spend time in the space reflecting, praying and responding to creative stimuli in the room. Over break times the space is often available for kids to drop in.

There is something incredibly powerful about groups of kids praying fro their school, friends, family, community in the school day. It’s great to hear their reflections on who God is and how they see him as relevant.

You can hear more about it here: Prayer Space In Schools - Lots of great pictures too!

We visited as many houses on the estate as possible asking for memorabilia for our Living memories Exhibition and any artwork by local artists. We then created an exhibition for the public to visit during Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday we held a church service in the car park, provided a free BBQ and Pizza for all during lunch time. This was with a free bouncy castle, balloon modelling and Funday activities. A local kids work group ran an ‘old school sports day’ during the afternoon. We then finished the day with a talent show/concert by local performers, including two of the local primary schools.

It was a great day and the work of many people, but with well over 300 people attending it was a great sunny afternoon. You can read about it in the paper: Oxford Mail Article This Is Oxfordshire

4th-5th May—Children Matter Network Forum.

7th May—Launch Pad Holiday Club Taster Day at HBC.

8th May—Ice Cream Sundae, Oxford

13th-15th May —InterServe UK Conference—leading kids work.

20th-22nd May —Love Oxford Weekend, with Oxford Funday on Saturday and all-age celebration on Sunday morning.

12th June—All age service in  Bury Knowle Park, Oxford

12th June—Ice Cream Sundae, Oxford

25th June—Powerpack Training Day with Luis Ibara (Quilmes pastor) – everyone welcome to join us in Peterborough!

Prayer Points

• For church weekends coming up Interserve Conference and Love Oxford in May.   In Oxford I am leading an all-age section at the start and leading 3 hours of centre games at  the Funday on Saturday
• For Kath as she enjoys her next term.  Lots of things appear to becoming easier.  She is presently looking for jobs in case her present school is unable to appoint staff for September.
• For summer events preparation—getting fresh ideas and the right balance of activities.