This past month was filled with lots of discipleship/mentoring, training and building up small group leaders, teaching Bible School, and Baptisms!
I have been focusing more over the past few months on my small group leaders. Making sure these leaders feel supported and have the training they need to lead their groups confidently is important to me but also making sure that they themselves are connecting with God is even more important. I have loved meeting and praying with them over the past few months as well as hearing the testimonies coming out of their groups.
I am also teaching and overseeing Bible School for part of this term which is something I love! This month I am teaching on Spiritual Disciplines. This past Monday I taught on Daily Devotions and Fellowship. In the coming weeks we will cover Communion, Fasting, Worship, Stewardship and Tithing as well as the Sabbath. If we are going to have a fruitful walk with Christ – we all need these disciplines!
Finally, one of the biggest highlights of last month was Baptisms! I love seeing people get baptised and I especially love it when I have been walking with them and get to take part in baptising them! Six of our teens were baptised as well as five adults. Five of the teens come from families that don’t attend church. Two of them have parents that don’t even believe in God. This is exciting for me! What made it amazing is that the parents who don’t believe in God all came to watch their teens be baptised! As a church, we had a wonderful opportunity to show them love and show them how much we love their teen. Please pray for more opportunities to share Jesus with them.
One of the teens that I had the privilege of baptising was Jessica. I have been mentoring Jessica and I have loved seeing her fall in love with Jesus. I truly believe that Jessica’s love for God will be a huge instrument in bringing her parents to Christ. Her comment that she made on Facebook afterwards shows you how much it meant to her – “This morning was definitely something! It was such an amazing morning. I'm feeling great & like a new person to be honest! Would just like to say a massive well done to everyone who got baptised today! I'm so proud of you all & I'm so blessed that I've been able to share this experience with you! Also a massive thank you to all of my youth leaders, pastors & friends/family that have supported me through this massive step I've taken today!”
Your love and support have been such an amazing blessing to me. I would really like to ask you to please remember to pray for me as well. God is growing me in SO MANY WAYS! I actually feel like what I am truly called to do is coming to pass. I am teaching and preaching loads more and I am beginning to feel the weight of the responsibility of a pastor more and more. I am loving, it but at the same time I realise more and more that your prayer covering is so essential.
Also, please remember that you have a part in every life that is being touched here in London.
Thank you again for all of your love and support!
Lots of Love
Traci
The blossoms on the trees, the flowers in our garden and the hay fever medicine have all come out! Spring has arrived in London and I am loving it! The sun is shining and people are happy on the streets and on the buses and tubes – what a difference the weather can make!
This past month has been quite busy. One of the things that I have been a part of is our annual Mums & Daughters Tea Party. We put on this Tea Party for the Mums & Daughters that attend our church but also as an outreach event for the Mums and Daughters in the nearby community. We spoil them with amazing treats as well a short talk on instilling Godly values in their relationships. This talk was focused on how to communicate with your teenager.
We’ve taken our teens twice now to a Saturday night youth event called Soul Survivor Saturday Celebrations. These evening are a time where hundreds of young people get together to spend time worshiping God, hearing from His Word, and waiting on His Holy Spirit. The first Saturday that we took some of them we weren’t sure if they would enjoy it or want to come back but by the end of the evening one of the teens approached us and said “for my birthday next month, I want us to come back for the next Celebration evening!” We did exactly that and the teens loved it again and are looking forward to more in the future. We are seeing a real hunger for a relationship with God growing in our youth and we are so excited about it!
This past weekend was also filled with excitement. Many of you have followed Elijah’s life in my newsletters the past 4 years. He was born with Myotublar Myopathy and every day is a miracle. He turned 4 last week! He might not be able to talk and move around a lot but you can definitely see life inside of him as he smiles at his surroundings!
Also, this weekend I had the privilege of preaching on one of my passions – Discipleship. We are doing a series at the moment on re-DIGGing your wells based on the scripture in Genesis 26:17. One of those wells is the Well of Discipleship. I had a wonderful time preaching this message and was blessed to see God move and touch peoplethrough the service. If you would like to listen please click HERE. Also, please have a look at the PowerPoint that goes along with the sermon to see pictures that I show during my message so you have the full impact ;o).
Thank you for loving me and your prayers and support! God is doing amazing things in and through you!
Lots of Love
Traci
Wow, what a whirlwind this past month has been! I arrived back in London from Florida on the 18th of February and 2 ½ days later I was on my way to take help lead a Worship Workshop in Gent, Belgium. A day and a half later I was catching the Eurostar back to London. And one week later, helping to lead a Victory Weekend. Whew! It’s been a crazy but exciting time.
My time in Florida was wonderful and extremely busy. It was so good to spend time with so many of you and to build some new friendships. Thank you so much to all of you who spoiled me during the 3 weeks that I was there! Thank you so much to Grace Family Church for the opportunities to speak at Beautiful and your Second Saturday Missions moment. Thank you also to Edgewater United Methodist Church for inviting me to speak at your Missions Conference! I had such a wonderful time all of these events and loved meeting everyone.
After arriving back in London, 5 of us headed to our Church plant in Gent Belgium. This amazing congregation already has 2 services on a Sunday and we had the privilege of teaching them on Worship a full day on Saturday as well as leading worship for them.
This past weekend we had our annual Victory Weekend. Thirty Two peopleexperienced Freedom on this weekend! It was a powerful time of teaching on areas where people generally struggle to get victory. I love seeing thetransformation of people’s faces from when they arrive on the weekend and when they leave!
Thank you to everyone for your supportand prayers. Also, welcome and a huge thank you to everyone who joinedmy prayer and support team this past month!
Love
Traci
