For me the number one reason for doing youth work is about loving the work and about being passionate about it.
I think it is important to want to challenge prejudices or wanting to see young people change, but this shouldn’t be your over-riding reason for doing youth work.
Let me explain a bit. It is important [...]
It’s a bit complicated but a friend is asking us if we want to buy his land. Wow. There are several considerations to do with this. The biggest one in my head right now is that the railway line runs along side the plot. Not sure if that works with “retreat”. However God is bigger [...]
Well I think the above says it all. The land owner now has other plans for the land and on those grounds has decided to reject our offer.
We have just submitted an offer to the owner of the field, in a way that we could see our way to pay. Please pray. Very much feeling if they are not interested in this we may have got it all wrong.
I walked back from school today, past the land and found myself worshiping God and praying that that would be the experience of anyone who walks past.
Matthew 9v13 “I desire mercy not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Started to pray, Lord who is this retreat for?
I have always thought [...]
A place of retreat for young people.
Currently the world around is fast moving and concentrates on getting. There are very few spaces left to be still in a persons life and this is especially true of young people.
We plan to build a place of retreat that focuses on bringing space, stillness to a young person’s [...]
We have found a field that would suit us perfectly in setting up the retreat centre. It is a 6 acre field has a flattish top part (with wonderful views into Lostwithiel) and then sloping to a wooded area and stream at the bottom. It borders some housing and might or might not yield planning [...]
One of the most exiting discoveries of the Christian walk has to be that God has a purpose for your life. It doesn’t matter what went on before because however, washed up or useless you feel God has a purpose.
It gets even better because God then equips you with the gifts you need for that [...]
The strength of the Christian lies not in obeying outward laws but in inward character.
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened [...]
Have you ever realised that peace has two functions? We probably all think about and know one function, that of causing to cease (to bring an end to hostility). But what about an equally important part of “to be united with”? Do we place one above the other. Have we forgotten then when neighbours fight, [...]