Jon tells the story of how they were able to move and gather the initial families under lockdown.

I have found there will be at least one person asking “yes but what did the festival ever do for us?“  It is an important question to ask but also to hear the answer!

“I bet you’re glad to be back aren’t you?”
Insights into Cross-Cultural Mission - part 3.

“Surely you need to talk about Jesus!”
Insights into Cross-Cultural mission - part 2

There was a powerful sense of God speaking his name over us as his people.

We were becoming, for the first time, outsiders.
Insights into Cross-Cultural Mission - part 1

We are not the first people to camp in a field under an ink black starry sky…and we won’t be the last!

Our identity remains the same, we are loved, accepted, and secure In Christ but our purpose may change.

When we consider power, it’s not about taking control over others but taking control of ourselves.

Emotions can act as a gauge of what is really going on in our hearts so even what is seen as negative emotions can be seen as positive if we learn to respond to them in a healthy way.

We can spend a lot of time trying to figure out who we are and where we fit. Who am I? …Without God, we’re groping in the dark for the answers to this question.

The embrace, the laughter and the excited conversations all make me think of that final day when we hang up our swords, kick off our hiking boots, and together bow before our king. What a glorious day that will be.

Praying and fasting for our people, our movement, our mission and our world.

It will be 4 years (next year) since we last gathered in the Westpoint Showground for the Festival, and I believe next year’s Festival will write thousands of new memories for all those who come.

I have learnt over the years to listen to such sad stories. I hope Jesus’ love shines through. Has the work been successful? Someone once told me that ‘success is doing what God has told you to do’.

Our challenge to myself and all of us is this - can we lower our drawbridge to welcome the stranger and neighbour into our homes and break with the spirit of self-sufficiency?

Open Door Church start ESOL classes in the hotel the refugees are living in from September

Written by church leaders, for church leaders looking to partner with other churches.

A Newfrontiers-partner church of the Toposa, an unreached people, baptised 300 new believers.

You can now listen to all the session and seminar recordings from Jubilee+ Conference 2020

The Newfrontiers Unreached Network is a global community committed to reaching the unreached.

Prayer for Faros, an organisation seeking to help 5000 unaccompanied refugee children.