News: Views

01 Dec

[17-01-11] Keep Loving Your Uni
It’s cliché, I know, but it only feels like yesterday when I stepped out into the sun at the end of my exams and into the recently graduated world.
[23-11-10] 40 days until 2011
In 40 days time it will be a new year, two thousand and eleven.
[13-07-10] Work Matters
Over the summer we're looking at a series called 'Work Matters'.
[09-06-10] Why Does Everyone Need Their Own Lawn Mower?
This question prompted the idea of a database of the items people have available that they don't mind sharing with the rest of church.
[04-05-10] Lobbying Andy Reed
On 1st March I joined around 100 members of the Speak Network, a Christian network of students and young adults who campaign and pray about issues of global injustice, to visit parliament to lobby our MPs about government support for the arms companies.
[01-02-10] A New Year. A New Decade
At the start of a new year and a new decade Rich Wilson shares something of God's heart for Open Heaven.
[04-12-09] Grace for Growth
Growth begins and ends with grace.
[02-12-09] God and Dualisms
At the leaders' weekend earlier in the year, we heard quite a lot about how dualistic thinking works in our lives.
[01-12-09] 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.
[06-05-09] Stories from Encounter
The Encounter Weekend continues to be one of my highlights in the year.

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!

It's a great start. Without knowing who gave what, I know that many of you gave and that many of you gave sacrificially. Thank-you for giving God room to speak and responding to his nudges with obedience.

We are also expecting responses from the letters we sent out to parents and ex-Open Heaveners over the coming weeks and our hope is that these responses will take us over the £500,000 mark (we're at £457,000 right now).

We are also applying to trusts at this time and so please pray for massive favour and the release of significant sums of money to us. We would love to reach £800,000 over the 3 years of giving, which is humanly pretty impossible but as Martin Luther King said:

"Dream things with God so big that they are doomed to failure unless God comes through"

Why not? It's a great way to live!

I love being part of a community that dreams big and gives beyond themselves. So, again, thank you.

Ness

Posted by: Ness Wilson on Tuesday Dec 1st, 2009

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