On the Road again.
Welcome to our first blog update of 2008. (We're still not sure what happened to our last effort in December, it never got published!) So if you would like to read our summary of 2007 and our hopes for 2008 see below.
This year has already been eventful but not as we had anticipated. Jean's Mum died peacefully on 15th January with us and two of Jean's sisters at her bedside. Although she had been in a residential home for just over a year, the speed of her final decline in health was nevertheless quite a shock and that, together with the inevitable family business to be attended to, has certainly sapped emotional and physical energy.
However, we start February with renewed determination to host the presence of God wherever we are and with the prospect of a very busy time indeed.
This coming weekend, Andrew and Mavis are staying with us while they do some teaching and pastoral work with a group of Koreans at the Nations centre. Andrew and I had great fun praying with them last weekend too. Then, from Wednesday, we will be hosting some friends from Cardiff as we join in the next stage of the prayer walk across Wales. This time it is Llanelli to Aberystwyth.
Aberystwyth is an influential place in terms of Welsh language, education and the church. This month there is a 4 x 24/7 taking place there and Jean and I were at the start of that last week too.
A few people from Antioch go out each week "walking the land" perhaps giving out packets of food, always talking to folk and praying and prophecying over them. The aim is to take that initiative on the prophetic walk too! A bit scary perhaps but incredibly rewarding and increasingly fruitful.
Over the Easter weekend, we will be taking the wild-fire to Paris as part of a small team from Emerge Wales. God spoke to us a lot in 2006 about going to France from Wales so this is an exciting opportunity to let him speak some more whilst we are ministering there.
In the meantime we have finally started our local prayer group (hurrah!) The healing group want to meet with the prayers, the prayers want to meet with the prophecy group and the worship leaders love to be at it all.
Finally, it was great to see folk at River over Christmas and the New Year. As always not enough time to see everyone we had hoped to. You can always visit!
With our love
Jean and Nigel |