Two Rivers Mission Week - A Reflection 

The Spinnaker Pub

All this week, SOURCE have been taking part in the Two Rivers Mission week with St Stephen's Church in Newtown. For SOURCE the week started bright and early at 7:30am on Monday morning down on Hawkins Road for an extra COFFEE give away, which normally runs from October to April and will end with garden activities at Hythe Station on Saturday morning, the Community Day at St Stephen's in the afternoon and 'High Tea and Hymns' on Sunday evening. 

It is always a busy week at SOURCE, but particularly so this week: we have been found at the St Stephens Church cafe every morning with our Jesus Deck, out and about in the Hythe collecting shopping trolleys, enjoying a ladies 'pamper evening', and offering healing prayer. As a community of people who have answered God's call to live a life of mission, it has afforded us the opportunity to share both the work that we do every week with other Christians and our love of the Hythe. We have seen how new activities might work in the future (and yes, the Ladies Pamper Evening will most definitely be back), meet with new and old friends and continue through our conversations to share the gospel.

There have been many highlights: the popular vote was certainly the Pamper Evening, and the SOURCE ladies are certainly looking forward to doing that again soon, but for each of us there have been personal highlights: the privilege of being able to pray for people both in the local pub and at our prayer healing event, and how that helped to bring blessings and peace to those we prayed with and for; the joy of watching some of our loved ones share with us in our events and know that a break through was made; listening to the stories of those willing to share them with us and having new opportunities to speak the gospel in to those situations, and the simple pleasure of sharing some of the 'abundant life' promised to us by Christ with everyone we have met and worked with.

Faith has been shared - and renewed; challenges are being met, and God has overcome them; prayers have been answered, the Holy Spirit has been seen watering seeds previously planted and will water those planted this week. This is life as mission - a journey with God which humbles and awes us. 

Please do come and join us, either to help us with the garden at Hythe Station this Saturday or to have fun at the Community Day at St Stephens. Or if you have any questions about God, Jesus, faith, prayer or how the gospel story speaks to your life - stop us and ask.