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Holiday
with a heart
Trevor
and Marian Griffiths recommend a great holiday that can help
others...
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Sunrise Safari Apartments leaflet dropped out of Kings News just
as we were talking about a holiday! "Why not?", we thought.
So we did. Not only have we survived to tell you, but we are going
back there again!
We had a
fantastic time, a mixture just as we needed. We needed to relax
- the awesome views from the hotel apartments over fertile foothills
to the Rwenzori mountains say, "Sit down and soak this in." We
needed some safari adventure - Mweya Lodge was luxury in the midst
of raw natural beauty. We needed to meet the people - four-track
drives bouncing out to the villages, to see Christian development
projects supported by the income from Sunrise, inspired us.
The friendliness
and grace of the staff at Sunrise has already become legendary
in Uganda. Support them. Go, and talk others into going. You won’t
regret it; and they need you.
Trevor &
Marian
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A
visit to Tavi town centre could give you more than you expected.
Chris Wright reports... |
 hen
I heard the idea of going to Bedford Square and asking passers-by
if they wanted prayer (for health
issues or any other concerns they might have), I was really excited.
We’d prayed for people before for healing and seen Jesus heal
them - not always, but enough to know that Jesus DOES heal, today!!
But this had almost always occurred with people in church, or
from church. Here was a chance to pray literally with ’the man
in the street’. It was time to show those that don’t know Jesus
that He knows them and cares for them, and is willing to help
them.
Dates were
set and I turned up with excitement and no small feeling of butterflies.
I’d never done this before, and now here we were stepping out!
We went out onto Bedford Square and set up a small portable gazebo
to take people to for prayer. We spread about the Square and started
to tell people who we were and what we were offering.
here
was a wide spectrum of responses! Some didn’t want to know, some
looked frightened, and others were antagonistic. Some were grateful,
but were hesitant to be prayed for there and then, or embarrassed
to be prayed for in public. Then there were some who were
very pleased to see that members of different churches could work
together for something like this. We have been doing this now
for about five months at time of writing; some people have had
their prayers answered on the spot, some have come back again
to say they’ve been completely or partially healed, some to say
that the situations we prayed for showed noticeable improvement.
We’ve been pleased to help people see how much Jesus loves them,
how He is interested in their lives, that He is as relevant and
powerful now as He has ever been.
The initiative
for this came from a church in Bere Alston, and it’s been a real
pleasure to be able to support it – not just from the point of
view of getting out and telling people Jesus loves them but also
for having a chance to learn from and work with brothers and sisters
from the family of churches in and around Tavistock.
Chris
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