21 Jun
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- Jez
The Think Big £50 Challenge
Our Think Big campaign has so far seen a great response, with many in the church giving generously and sacrificially. Up to this point we've generally avoided organising specific fundraising events. Partly this is because we wanted to give God the opportunity to see what he could do in us, but also it's partly because we recognise that it's all too easy for it to end up with the same people being asked to turn up and give to the same event.
However, the summer is a great time to be running fundraising events and for those of you who are living elsewhere for the summer (e.g. students) it's a great chance to raise money outside of regular OHers.
17 May
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- Ness
Sharing in the Sufferings: The Dyers’ Journey
I asked Sally Ann to write an article about the journey of suffering they are on as a family as it helps us as a community to understand and support them a little more. It also gives us all a precious insight into the depths of God's presence in pain and it holds up a very mature response to life, faith and death that we can all learn from.
03 Jul
A Call to Purity
This article has been a long time in coming, I hope to express something of what God has put on my heart, which I believe is part of our challenge as Open Heaven.
This started for me at “Encounter” 2007. I was on my DNA year so for most of the weekend I was in the kitchen ( enjoying it thoroughly). I ventured in to a meeting at the end of the weekend and was privileged to hear some people’s testimonies. This led into prayer and during this time a girl in the church stood up to apologise to the men of the church for how she and women had behaved to them. This was quickly followed by an apology from the men of the church to the women.
15 Jun
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- Sarah
'While he was still a long way off...'
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” Luke 15 v 20-21.
Just over a year ago I returned to church having been away from the Open Heaven community for about 5 years.
24 Jan
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- Naomi
Project 5000
I am a volunteer for Project 5000. It’s a church of Loughborough initiative that provides a safe place for people to be loved and listened to and for those who it: need practical help to get a meal, some hot drinks, and a bag of food for the week. It runs once a week on a Monday night at Emmanuel Church.
I've just arrived back from a Monday session and I always come away feeling so excited about what God could do in the lives of the people there, so I decided to write an article to let everyone know so they can get involved too. I started going along to Project 5000 pretty much when I came to Loughborough about a year and a half ago, and have been going most weeks since then. My role is to sit and listen and to chat to the guests and just to accept them. There are other people who cook and help out in the kitchen on a once a month basis.
It would be great if we could run an alpha course with the guests who are asking questions about God and are up for talking at more depth, but we need more volunteers. I am just beginning to form a small team of people (myself, Rich Curtis and Jimmy Willot) who will build relationships and hopefully out of that we can see some other stuff happen.
04 Apr
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- Matt
Zambian President Gets Baptised
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The president of Zambia recently got baptised, publicly confessing his faith in Christ before a crowd of hundreds. According to missionaries with the International Mission Board, a crowd clapped and cheered as President Levy Mwanawasa rose from the water in an outdoor baptistery behind a Baptist seminary chapel in Lusaka, Zambia's capital. The event drew hundreds of people, including public officials, leaders and pastors from neighboring countries. |
29 Oct
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- Louise
Khmer Rouge Embraces Jesus
Sunday October 24, 2004
The Observer
The Khmer Rouge followed a harsh brand of communism, killing nearly two million people in their bid to return Cambodia to Year Zero. Now they have a new faith: evangelical Christianity.
Hundreds of former fighters have been baptised in the past year. The Khmer Rouge's mountain stronghold, the town of Pailin in south-west Cambodia, has four churches, all with pastors and growing congregations. At least 2,000 of those who followed Pol Pot, the guerrillas' former leader who died six years ago, now worship Jesus.
27 Oct
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- Matt
Read about the Welsh Revival at BBCi
100 years ago revival swept through Wales transforming lives and communities. As part of its centenary there is an article on the BBC website about the revival, some of its effects and quotes from people and papers at the time.
Read more on the BBC website plus mpore information at the Send Revival website.
29 Sep
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- Jonny
The Vision
The words of 'The Vision' got written late one night on the wall of the first ever 24-7 Prayer Room...