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14 Jan
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- Jez
Think Big Update - Jan 2010
We’re getting closer and closer to seeing St. Peter’s come back to life and once again be a place of hope, life, healing, fun and love in the community.
Where we’re at...
16 Dec
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- Joshua
Union Bog
Union bog came out from a desire to raise both awareness and money for a programme that CORD run in Burundi called Toilet Twinning whilst continuing the outward focus of the Open Heaven Society (OH Soc); loving students on campus. So for a weekend in November the OH Soc spent two stormy nights and three muddy days giving out bottles of water, cleaning bathrooms and toilets, praying, worshipping and living in a cardboard shelter outside the Students Union.
If, during the weekend you’d asked me, what our goal was, I would have answered “staying alive and raising money”. However the experienceof planning, gaining permission and living in a slum for the weekend taught me, and all of us who took part, so much more than what is required to physically stay alive.
04 Dec
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- Sam
Grace for Growth
Growth begins and ends with grace. Deep down, we all want to grow, but growth requires the overcoming of challenges and for this, we need God’s grace to keep us going.
02 Dec
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- Stu
God and Dualisms
At the leaders' weekend earlier in the year, we heard quite a lot about how dualistic thinking works in our lives. We tend to divide the world into binary pairs, like right and wrong, dark and light, truth and error, and so on. And part of the reason for this is that this often helps us to understand things, and act confidently.
What the teaching at the weekend tried to show was that very often these dualisms can become ways of trying to control our relationship to the world around us, or ways of judging ourselves and other people. This can be psychologically imprisoning, because we can end up assessing everything according to one set of criteria which seem to help us make sense of things, but don’t help us pay real attention to what is actually going on.
01 Dec
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- Ness
A Big Thank You
Over the last few weeks we referred to Nov 22nd 09 as the day we would come together to raise thousands and thousands of pounds. Well, we did just that.
£118,737 to be exact, which with Gift Aid, results in £137,363 being raised in one day!
23 Nov
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- Caroline
Imagine a World Without Arms….
Imagining a world without arms was just one of the inspiring things we did at Conversations About the Arms Trade. Overflow, Open Heaven’s social justice group, organised the event as part of our Study War No More campaign. The campaign has two main aims:
- To help members of Open Heaven learn more about the global arms trade and some of the problems it is creating in our world.
- To see Loughborough University reduce the amount of research it does that has connections to the global arms trade.
Yoy can read the campaign’s full aims (six of them) by reading Overflow’s Dummies Guide to the Arms Trade.
15 Nov
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- Tom
Sloshout
Sloshout is basically a spirit lead prayer and worship event put on by the Open Heaven Society. It’s a chance for people to come along and encounter Jesus on a personal level. It’s a safe space for people to meet with God, worship him, hear what he has to say, soak, dance, shout, sing in his presence, basically whatever he's got planned.
08 Nov
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- Sam
Stacey got baptised!
Stacey was baptised last weekend. This was part of our termly baptisms meeting.
05 Nov
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- Ness
Giving to 'Think Big'
(Listen to the Think Big vision ready for the launch of our giving adventure on Sunday 22nd November!)
There’s been lots of words about St. Peters, but if we were to distil our vision for it into one sentence it would be this: