Crowhurst_Autumn_15.pdf

Steve’s letter -Jesus said, ‘Follow me, and I will make you …’Dear Followers of Jesus, you who arebeing made like Him,Recently, to help uspray during NightPrayer, I was usingPsalm 147 verses1-4. When we gotto verse 4, whichreminds us that ourLord names thestars in the nightsky, I suggested wesimply ask the Lordto show us what He sees when looking at thestars. In the next few minutes all those presentreceived extraordinary pictures of the night sky,and sounds too. It was awesome!The Lord has been reminding me again of theprogress of the advance of His Kingdom acrossthe globe. Think about it; by the time you havefinished reading this magazine, countless morepeople would have heard the Good News andthousands of those would have decided tobecome followers of Jesus. Blind people wouldhave received sight; the deaf will have heardsound for the first time; the weak made strongand over a billion followers worldwide (youand me too) would have shone like lights in theworld.Be encouraged; we are on thevictory side – the Lord whoknows the stars by name is onour side – ‘who can be againstus?’Our call is to walk by faith, not by sight - faith ina Lord who knows the stars and daily advancesHis global Kingdom. How I would love to knowwhat tomorrow may bring and what the futureof the CCHC looks like. The Lord has shownthe leadership here a very helpful picture of‘one carpet tile being put down before us at atime’. It seems for us here at the CCHC, theLord gives us all we need, to do what He wantsus to do presently. We need to prayerfullydiscern what that is and faithfully press on,knowing that we are not building just for thehere and now, but for the Kingdom of God.Since our successful Gift Days we believe theLord is confirming our ‘going out’ to the widercontext of the Church of Christ, as we havereceived more invitations. Thank the Lordwith us and continue to pray as we considerfinancing and resourcing this new work of theLord here.There have also been two new developments –a necessary part of the next carpet tile. We feelprompted to further explore our big pictureby carefully and prayerfully viewing our land,and where things like prayer rooms and hutsmay be placed in relation to the much neededimproved car parking space and presentbuildings.Secondly, the two day a week voluntary role ofour Associate Chaplain, Penny, has a new look.One day a week Penny will continue to blessus with all the Ministry things we love her to do(mostly on Thursdays) and the other day shewill be looking into all things business in relationto the Centre. This will be until the end ofDecember 2015.It thrills me that here (and in all our hearts andhomes), around the globe and the galaxiesbeyond, our Lord is faithfully and lovinglykeeping His promises and that one day not onlywill we be like Him, but we will know and fullyexperience the peace and joy of His Kingdomon earth. Thank you Lord!With love from us all, Steve4