Forward to Lake district Adventures

LAKES DISTRICT. Not our will but your will, O God. There is so much to share from this time in the area.  We arrived as a threesome on August 2 and then R arrived the next day with her car to make us a group of four.

A few days back, on the last day of the New Wine conference, from the closing session, the theme to us was:   Do we have enough of the love of Jesus to tell others about Him?  Some notes:

People are looking for lives that have been profoundly changed by Jesus. We need to love people into God's
Kingdom. Let us look for what God is doing in the lives of other people and look at the way Jesus related to and connected with people. From the story of the blind man Bartimaeus in Mark 10:46-52, New Testament:

1.  Jesus connected with people through interruptions that came his way.  He was not on a fixed agenda for the day.
2. Jesus listened to people.  Listening to others helps in their healing.  It values them.  People want to be heard.
3. Jesus was ready to stop and gave His time to others, to talk with them.
4. Jesus was ready to pray for and with the people he met and connected
 with, to pray into their broken lives and ask for God's healing.
5.  Jesus was ready to include people. People are looking for connection and relationship with others. Be ready to stop and greet people.  Create a community  that others want to be part of.

So, this was the foundation and desire that we had as plans were committed to spend time in the Lake district, staying in youth hostels and taking time to enjoy God's creation.  Some stories to be posted soon as a result of this time. The days are passing by quickly and just in the past 2 hours another amazing connection has been started and the journey into this should be continuing tomorrow.

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