An Easter walk

In Harpenden, which is the place where I live and work with YWAM (Youth With A Mission), the churches get together each year on Good Friday and walk through the town together finishing with prayer and worship on the green in the middle of the town.

This year was my first experience of this and it was more fun than I thought it would be. Possibly because there were over 200 of us walking through the town, which was really interesting  when we crossed the roads, we would go across about 50 at a time so we did not cause too much disruption.

It was a really beautiful day for it and I am really glad I went down. Very refreshing to see the church doing something together, with representation from most of the different denominations here in Harpenden.

The SORJ graduate

As a Campus for the University of the Nations (http://uofnkona.edu) we run a number of training courses other than the DTS (Discipleship training school), which is one of the areas I currently work in.

One of these schools, the School of Reconciliation and Justice (SORJ) graduated last week. This is the 4th that has been run here in the last 4 years. The school is focused on bringing God's reconciliation and restoration into all areas of society (http://ywamharpenden.org/training/sorj). The trainees have teaching about biblical world view and what that means in a broken world and how to bring this into every day life. The majority of trainees come from nations that have been torn apart by war with a view to return and help rebuild their nation on biblical foundations.

It is always such a joy and privilege to be apart of hearing their vision and sending them out again from this place to pursue God in what they are doing. Really amazing bunch of people.