T Minus 1 Month and Counting!

Hey everyone!

First of all, sorry for the lateness of this post. I’ve been struggling with illness all week, and only just feeling better now,

Anyway, last week I was at a massive conference called New Wine Wales. I was technically on the worship team, but I was putting the song words onto the screen. Below is a photo of the “on stage” worship team.

God moved powerfully throughout the week, people were being healed, and in the Youth area, people were being saved. It was awesome to be there this year, and I can’t wait to see what happens next year.

Anyway, The Open Door is less than a month away from the official launch weekend of the 13th-14th September. We’re planning a full weekend event, with MicroMissions on the Saturday, with the Launch Service on the Sunday.

The move is progressing, and there’ll be something more definite announced here on that soon.

Next week the leaders of the Open Door (Chris & Dana) are in town for a visit of Caerphilly Castle (8 miles north of Cardiff) with Chris’ parents, so I’ll be meeting up with them.

Thanks for reading.

Keith

Update

Hey everyone, Hope you’re all ok.

Just wanted to get out a bit of an update for everyone.

Work is going great at the moment, we’re about to start a new round of training in order to do a completely different task, because in doing (and completing) the first task, we created a backlog of work in the second!

Church has been awesome recently, amongst other things, I now lead a LifeGroup, and with One Prayer having started this past weekend, I now feel we’re into a momentus time. God is moving, people!

London update: I’ve been invited to lead what will become the youth program at the Network Church (AKA The Open Door). I’ve done a bit of youth leadership before, but something on this scale is completely different to anything I’ve done in the past! Prayers would be appreciated as I begin to step into this role.

Also, I’ll be heading to Hillside (the Church that is graciously allowing us to use their building for the services) in a couple of weeks to meet some of the people there, so I’m looking forward to that.

Finally, I’d love to know if there’s anything I can pray for you guys for.

Thanks for reading,

Keith

One Prayer – Update

Hey guys.

I was in LifeChurch this morning when they gave everyone an update on One Prayer (see here for more info). There is now an amazing 800+ churches signed up from across the globe, and different streams and denominations are involved.

That for me is an amazing sign of what God is doing in his church right now. People from all sorts of church backgrounds and “labels” are beginning to realise that the church is so much more than just what they’re comfortable with. God is on the move!

Thanks for reading,

Keith

Video Blog, Take 1!

Below is a video recorded as a test of my new webcam and headset.

Thanks for watching!

ONE Prayer

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share with everyone a very exciting initiative that I’ve heard about today. Below is a quick introductory video from Craig Groeschel, LifeChurch.tv Senior Pastor.

This looks fantastic, and I can’t wait to see what God does through it.

Things move forward…

Hey everyone!

So, things are moving forward at an incredible rate now. The church in London held the first of two pilot services today. The flyer below was what was used to advertise the service in the local area:

They had a total of 27 people attending the service, with at least 1 commitment to Christ.  To see (from afar for now) the fruition of months of prayer and work on their part was fantastic, and it’s gotten me even more pumped up for what God’s going to do in London through this whole thing.

Thanks for reading.

Internet Campus – 9am Experience begins!

As I’ve been mentioning, my church today started the first of what I believe will be many extra services to cope with the different time zones across the world. It was great to see so many out, including a bunch from the US and Mexico, and I have to give massive praise to those guys that stayed up late/got up early to join with us European and African natives. If you’re reading this, you made a difference this morning so thank you!

One of the things that I’ve always loved about LifeChurch.tv is the teaching, and today was no exception. We started a new series called ‘Hostage’, in which we’re going to be discussing things that can hold us hostage. Today it was bitterness, and as always, it was incisive and very clear, and I certainly learned loads from it.

Next week we’re discussing fear, so if you can, come out and give LC.tv a try! If 9am GMT is a bit too early for you, we also hold services at 10am and 11:30am US Central Time.

Thanks for reading