St Lawrence's, Long Buckby
8 May 08
Last weekend we had the privilege of meeting the gang from St Lawrence’s, Long Buckby, near Northampton. These guys had been part of an awesome SHOCKWAVE event where they prayed grouped around each country’s flag, made a passport to remind them to pray for a persecuted Christian, and chained themselves to railings to raise awareness for those in prison. It was cool to meet them!
Sue’s one of the motivators behind this and we met in her front room: 25-odd people, 2 cats and a dog. After chatting for a bit and worshipping together, we watched a video about a Sunday school in China where the secret police came and took away the children… So far away from the freedom that we have to meet and worship! We used the challenge cards to pray into some of the stories of persecuted Christians and then thought about how we could use our freedom to help them. Before you could say ‘funky trainers’ there were green shoelaces everywhere and the Networker forms were going like hot cakes!
These guys raised a fantastic £54.12 that night – that’s the equivalent of 27 new Bibles for children in China. We’re looking forward to a bunch of new Networkers too – keep those forms coming in!