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University of Newcastle Christian Union Events Week :: Monday
What a fantastic beginning to the week! We met to pray at the very godly hour of 8am and there were around 30 students and CU guests there including the three intrepid “men” who had stayed the night in the marquee the night before – please pray for the nutters who have volunteered to do that each night! We had a great time of prayer together and then had a good time as a group of CU guests looking at John 17 together and Jesus’ prayer in the garden. Fantastic to be reminded that the reason for our evangelism is the Trinity and the privilege of inviting people back into restored community with the Trinity!
Today the first lunchbars were held – we’re holding the same lunchbar twice from 12-1pm and 1-2pm with the hope of spanning all possible lunchbreaks. Mo was speaking on the topic of “I’m not really bothered. What’s in Christianity for me?” There were around 100 people in total that attended the two lunchbars and there seemed to be a good bunch of questions after the second talk, there were also a good number of feedback forms handed in. Please do pray for those who develop a keen interest early on in the week that they would continue to return throughout the week and develop their interest and understanding.
During the rest of the day we have been handing out flyers to advertise the events, chatting to people in the marquee (praise God for the warmth of the tent!) and drinking innumerable numbers of cups of tea from a much appreciated urn! Please do pray as we get some first contact and worldview survey materials together for the rest of the week. This evening we will be meeting in a local church for an international evening and a talk on Mark 7 and the topic "But is it real?" Please do be praying particularly for Mo as he speaks that he would be particularly clear for the international students that will be there.
There are hopefully some photos coming soon and I would also encourage you to look at Mo’s blog as he is also “live-blogging” the week. You can find his blog here.
More to come later today or early tomorrow...
God bless.
Dear Freedom
University of Newcastle Christian Union Events Week :: Monday
What a fantastic beginning to the week! We met to pray at the very godly hour of 8am and there were around 30 students and CU guests there including the three intrepid “men” who had stayed the night in the marquee the night before – please pray for the nutters who have volunteered to do that each night! We had a great time of prayer together and then had a good time as a group of CU guests looking at John 17 together and Jesus’ prayer in the garden. Fantastic to be reminded that the reason for our evangelism is the Trinity and the privilege of inviting people back into restored community with the Trinity!
Today the first lunchbars were held – we’re holding the same lunchbar twice from 12-1pm and 1-2pm with the hope of spanning all possible lunchbreaks. Mo was speaking on the topic of “I’m not really bothered. What’s in Christianity for me?” There were around 100 people in total that attended the two lunchbars and there seemed to be a good bunch of questions after the second talk, there were also a good number of feedback forms handed in. Please do pray for those who develop a keen interest early on in the week that they would continue to return throughout the week and develop their interest and understanding.
During the rest of the day we have been handing out flyers to advertise the events, chatting to people in the marquee (praise God for the warmth of the tent!) and drinking innumerable numbers of cups of tea from a much appreciated urn! Please do pray as we get some first contact and worldview survey materials together for the rest of the week. This evening we will be meeting in a local church for an international evening and a talk on Mark 7 and the topic "But is it real?" Please do be praying particularly for Mo as he speaks that he would be particularly clear for the international students that will be there.
There are hopefully some photos coming soon and I would also encourage you to look at Mo’s blog as he is also “live-blogging” the week. You can find his blog here.
More to come later today or early tomorrow...
God bless.
Dear Freedom
1 comments:
Hey Ed,
Agnes here. Great blog. Warwick events week was a couple of weeks ago and it was such a blessed time - crazy and very tiring, but so worth it! Will definitely be praying for Newcastle uni, hope all goes well and you don't get too exhausted!
p.s. will probably link from your blog to mine if that's ok
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