I lead the Circuit World Church service this evening and was greatly encouraged by the stories I heard this evening. I invited Ann from Hope Trust, a charity who take aid to Zimbabwe, and Dave a young man who will be leading a team of young folk to help with building schools and other similar projects in Zambia.
They both spoke with passion and with a real sense that God has not only called them but provided for and challenged them. Ann spoke of the God who lifts us from our knees with the promise to support and equip us, while Dave spoke of recieving much more than he gave.
Through their stories they revealed to us afresh the God who goes both before and behind us, the God who calls us beyond our comfort zone to bless us. After the service people were expressing a real hunger to know this God in a deeper way, to break free of our constraining traditions, and expectations....
Maybe we will find it as we answer his call to move beyond ourselves...
