Life Essentials in Dorking and Redhill
Holy Trinity's Church Weekend Away (at Home) had been a long time in the planning!
So it was with great excitement and anticipation that around 180 members of all ages travelled to St Paul's Church in Dorking for the 'away' leg of our weekend.
Our speaker was Lee McMunn, known to some of us from his 'Identity' course that we have used over the past few years at HT to help people think through the claims of the Christian faith. He has since launched a website called Life Essentials with that same end - to help people find a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
He is the Minister of the newly planted Trinity Church in Scarborough, and came to us to encourage us ahead of our Year of Mission in 2018.
Lee spoke to us from Psalms 95 to 97: 'Captivated by God' (Psalm 95), 'Commanded by God' (Psalm 96) and 'Convinced by God' (Psalm 97). It was a tremendously encouraging time as we were reminded of the sovereignty of God, the call to respond to him in worship and to make him known in the world.
The children and the Friends of Jesus enjoyed their own activities and Bible teaching - as did Focus (who also managed a trip to the Ice Cream shop in Dorking, plus a delivery of Dominoes pizza...)
The encouragement of the Psalms is to 'sing for joy to the LORD...shout aloud to the rock of our salvation' and we were led in praise and sung worship by the band - the singing seemed to increase in volume as we heard more from the Psalms...
There was free time mid-afternoon to wander around Dorking, to join a more ambitious walk in the fields around the town, or time to just enjoy being together with other members of HT in a different setting. St Paul's have recently connected their ancient church building to a brand new church centre - similar to the plans we have at HT.
The day ended with fish and chips - very Scarborough!
So it was with great excitement and anticipation that around 180 members of all ages travelled to St Paul's Church in Dorking for the 'away' leg of our weekend.
He is the Minister of the newly planted Trinity Church in Scarborough, and came to us to encourage us ahead of our Year of Mission in 2018.
Lee spoke to us from Psalms 95 to 97: 'Captivated by God' (Psalm 95), 'Commanded by God' (Psalm 96) and 'Convinced by God' (Psalm 97). It was a tremendously encouraging time as we were reminded of the sovereignty of God, the call to respond to him in worship and to make him known in the world.
The children and the Friends of Jesus enjoyed their own activities and Bible teaching - as did Focus (who also managed a trip to the Ice Cream shop in Dorking, plus a delivery of Dominoes pizza...)
The encouragement of the Psalms is to 'sing for joy to the LORD...shout aloud to the rock of our salvation' and we were led in praise and sung worship by the band - the singing seemed to increase in volume as we heard more from the Psalms...
There was free time mid-afternoon to wander around Dorking, to join a more ambitious walk in the fields around the town, or time to just enjoy being together with other members of HT in a different setting. St Paul's have recently connected their ancient church building to a brand new church centre - similar to the plans we have at HT.
The day ended with fish and chips - very Scarborough!
The Home leg of the Weekend Away at Home was here at HT today. We heard from Luke 12 and Luke 13 on 'What is a successful life?'
For me there are two highlights from this weekend:
One was Lee's clarity and conviction as he taught the Bible, proclaimed Jesus and urged us towards a response. He stated from the outset that his purpose was to give us a renewed conviction that the word of God in the Bible has power to change lives - and there was evidence this weekend that God did that among us.
The other is the knowledge that, God willing, Lee will be back with a team next year to help us in our mission. I for one will have confidence in inviting folks along to hear the gospel explained by a gifted evangelist.
All Lee's talks will soon be on our website - click here for HT sermons: http://www.htredhill.com/sermons
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