SUNDAY

And thus we complete a full working week in the life of Ya Benjamin.
I got up early today to prepare for the Sunday morning Youth Alpha group.
It’s been a pretty packed week so I didn’t get time before. I downloaded Google Earth to help with our prayer focus on North Korea this morning and had a play with that. The satellite photos of Chesham seem pretty blurry, I guess there’s not much here anybody in space is interested in. P’ah! What do they know?

This morning we are starting the idea Iain and I had last Sunday night (see the Chewing gum post from Sunday 25th June ). Every time we come together to learn about and worship Jesus we are going to pray for Christians from the Open Doors list of 50 nations where the Church faces persecution . We started this morning with the number 1 nation where Christians have it tough: North Korea.

Our study this morning was on Jesus turning a normal conversation (“can I have some water please?”) into a potentially life changing moment (“come and meet the man who told me everything I ever did!”). We talked about the people we are least likely to talk to, as a Jewish man like Jesus was pretty unlikely to start any kind of conversation with a lone woman from Samaria in that culture.
Oh, and we had cake.

Not many people at Church this morning. Malcolm and Phil (the administrator and minister and the other members of the staff team) are away on holiday so I guess they must be the main draw for a lot of people ☺

Stroof it’s hot today. Got my day off tomorrow, sweet!