Monday Spot (23 July 2007)
This week-end has seen the start of the school holidays in this area of the UK. For the next few weeks families will be taking their annual vacation, summer camps of various sorts will be taking place and Salvation Army music schools will be in evidence.
On the beach
Of course our corps programme of activities will also be affected with a number of activities taking a summer break. Please contact us if you need to know more about these variations to our normal schedule.
On Saturday Cat McCombe continued her fundraising efforts to assist with her gap year which starts at the end of August. Paul and Ruth Woodhouse hosted ‘afternoon tea’ and a great many friends joined in to make it a really successful afternoon (nearly £100 was raised). When we know Cat’s placement for the year we will inform our readers. In the meantime we ask for your prayers that the year will be a great experience for Cat as she seeks to determine her future.
Cat (left) with Paul & Ruth
Some of the guests
Only one meeting took place on Sunday and this was in the morning, led by Major Kathy.
Major Kathy .
One could have been excused for thinking it was Easter Sunday as the meeting celebrated the resurrection of Jesus. Songs 148, 334 and 152 from The Salvation Army Song Book were used together with 1073, 165, 10 and 742 from Songs of Fellowship. The Singing Company brought ‘I won’t give up’ with Jessica Boughton as the soloist and the Songsters contributed ‘One Life to Live’. Using 1 Corinthians 15 as her scripture Major Kathy reminded us that ‘the issue of the resurrection is fundemental to the Christian faith. There have been many attempts to disprove it but these have never been feasible. No eveidence has ever been produced to show that it did not happen. It was exactly as prophesied in scripture and by Jesus himself. Because Christ did as he said he would there is life for all of us with God himself in prospect.
On a different subject, we would like to assure those of you who have suffered so dramatically from flooding during the last few weeks that you are constantly in our prayers. This week has brought further reminders of the power of nature as these pictures (all taken late last week) illustrate.
May God be with you as you try to rebuild your shattered dreams. For those not familiar with the geography of the UK we can tell you that the Medway Towns has not experienced flooding of this magnitude and we are relatively unaffected by the disaster despite torrential rainfall for most of the ‘summer’. Many areas of the country have, however, been seriously affected and we can only repeat that we are praying for you all.
Finally it will not have escaped notice that Harry Potter has come and gone. The final book has been published and, in at least one case that we know about, read from cover to cover. What compelling reading these books have proved to be. Great stories? Maybe. But yet the greatest story ever written is still not complete. We do know the ending, though. Given his resurrection and ascension into heaven, Jesus will one day come to earth again and claim his Kingdom. And we won’t be queuing up at midnight to buy the book!
Have a great week.