Spreading Hope in Stockport

I spent the day spreading hope in Stockport with my team and Stockport family church (www.stockportfamilychurch.org.uk) on Thursday (June7th).

We spent some time praying before we went and asking God for words of encouragement to put in a big box for people to come and take from. We also spent some time praying about the weather, as it was supposed to rain for the whole day, when we got into Stockport the rain stopped and did not start again until we left, which was amazing, God is so good.

When we arrived we started with worship (a guitar) and continued this for the whole time we were out. We also set up a question board for people to come and write on and headed out with a video camera to ask people what hope is.

It was such a fun day, the worship was very significant, as people would come and stop and then start asking us why we were around, as did the question board. It was a really great time of being able to answer questions about hope and God, and bless people, some of them even asked about coming to church to find out more. One of my favorite stories came from one of the guys on the team who had gone out with the encouragement box; they managed to stop a guy who travels around on a mobility scooter. This guy looks like a pirate with a bandana on his head and he asked if he could take three notes to which they said yes. After he read them he started asking about whom God is and about where the church was as all the notes had been very specific and significant to him. The funny thing about this is I had managed to give him a note the week before when we just came to pray round Stockport to see what God wanted to do.

The video camera was a lot fun, most people told us that hope was looking forward to better in the future. One woman even told us that hope was what she had found when she met Jesus the year before. It is amazing to see God at work in people, and to go and be apart of that is so exciting.