September seems to gave flown by . We have welcomed three new ministers into the life of our circuit which includes Henry and family from Nigeria to enrich our team.
Of course its also the harvest festival season and at Firth Park we looked at the parable of the sower and this year we made our gifts money for a vital toilet twinning sceheme through CAFOD . £460 was raised for what can be life changing basic sanitation. It remined me of the building work at the church in Asaebu which was enabled by the funds I was able to take on my last visit which created a whole toilet block.
Firth Park is an amazing and generous church community as this past weekend has shown again. It raised £421 for Macmillian. So thats not much short of £1000 being given not for ourselves but for others. Surely a community that needs to be blessed itself as it seeks to transform it building to better enable us to both worship and to serve.
So it has also been fun to have a drone fly over our roof to take close high resolution pictures to see what has to be repaired and what could be left.
Then wow in the air flying high and school children passing by loved it, as did this minister. Sadly I was not allowed to control it!
Our hope is that we might do a smaller repair to the roof and get on with converting the inside to create a space for worship and the space for a soft play centre. The latter will not only provide a much needed community facility but mean we can connect with people who would not normally cross our doors. So we press on with fund raising and pray that God will liberate a few bank accounts and wallets to make it happen sooner rather than later.
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