SO THAT'S THE END...OR IS IT?

ON FRIDAY night, 'Pizza and Praise' saw the end of ncounter Summer for this year.
A time of great prayer, worship and sharing was had by all
It was clear from everyone who spoke that we'd all seen wonderful things happen, across the city and county, with God working through us and impacting on the lives of people, with a number giving their lives to Jesus!
But it was also clear that God had also been working in us; increasing our faith, helping us to become better servants on his behalf.
Ncounter Summer has been an awesome experience, fun, full of service to our communities and great conversations enabling us to share our Christian faith with others.
Perhaps the best part of 'Pizza and Praise' was Matt Brown sharing his vision, after prayer and consideration, for nocunter to become not just a once a year thing, but to have ncounter days and weekends throughout the year!
This had been communicated to him, from God, via the young people involved in ncounter Summer who'd expressed a deep belief that something like it should take place throughout the year.
I gave a little mini speech on Friday night (I'm not sure how much sense I made, however) talking about how the songs played before Matt Brown's BBC Radio Leicester interview had really impacted on me.
One of them was Bryan Adams' Summer of '69.
The lyrics include the following: 'Aint no use in complaining, when you got a job to do.'
Well I never heard anyone in any of the teams complain they just got down to the task at hand.
Also, 'We were young and restless, we needed to unwind.'
Yes, we are young (well, some more so than others)and we're certainly restless for God to impact on this our generation and on the communities in which we live.
And, 'Oh when I look back now, The summer seemed to last forever.
And if I had the choice, I'd always wanna be there, those were the best days of my life.'
I don't think I need to add anything to that!
Also played by the BBC before Matt's interview, was Coldplay's Fix You.
The chorus is: 'Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones and I will try to fix you.'
Well God did light our way this week and I believe His Holy Spirit really did ignite our very beings and he has truly been fixing broken hearts.

Mathew Hulbert.