JUNE FUN

Hello

WoW how amazing is this weather down south, I'm so glad God moved me down here!! Well apart from going quite brown I've been touring around the country with the Band again.

Horringer Court Middle School in Bury St Edmunds was totally amazing. It was so nice to spend time with younger kids and we were so shocked with their maturity- unfortunately the government wants to do away with middle schools. Personally I think that would be a real shame as I was really impressed with what i saw - yr 5 & 6 doing shakespeare !!! How amazing is that!!

We got some great questions too - Like would God love someone like Pete from Big Brother with his Tourettes Syndrome? If God made gluttony a sin, why did he make people so they want to eat too much? What's the point of hell if people can say sorry and get in to heaven? Why did you choose music to express your views about Christianity?

We also had a brilliant host organisation there called BCY who made us feel like part of their family, and i had the privilege of staying with the most amazing host family called Andrea & Adam. We have become firm friends and have already been back to stay with them cause we missed them so much :-)

Maidstone was fantastic cause we got to work with the Collective Kent lads who Soph & I trained with almost two yrs ago. Please pray that we will guys in Collective East Anglia cause it makes such a difference to the boys to have male role models in the band.

It was a tough week cause Collective Kent had already been in 8 months earlier so it had lost it's impact a bit, however the schools had asked for them back so we felt quite privileged. The lessons were on identity and went really well. the concert was tough because it was so hot on the stage -I'm sure we all lost 6 stone from sweating!!

However Jayne got really ill the next week with heat stroke and it meant she missed our Collective Away Day :-(

One thing I'd love you to pray into is a girl I had a random meeting with who said she was a satanist. She wasn't ur typical goth girl, in fact you wouldn't have picked her out from the crowd or expected her to say something like that. She was shaking when she spoke to me and asked what advice I could give her.

She said she only believed in evil not good. She said all her friends were evil backstabbers. I agreed with her that I believed in the devil but challenged her that if there was evil there was good. She replied that there was no good in the world.

I then repeated back to her, her own statement (using my counselling skills techniques, knew they would come in useful :-) ) "So you don't believe there is any good in the world". She replied that there may be a little bit of good, so I told her that little bit of good was God.

She asked why God had not shown himself to her and I said it wasn't that He wasn't there for her, He had just been waiting for her to want see Him. I told her to find a CU or to go to a church to ask more stuff to Christians. She said thanks and then rushed off.

Needless to say I was a bit shaken cause I've never had that before so please pray for her and keep her on your heart.

If you wandering what a Collective Away Day is then read on - Cause we are all scattered all around the country and so busy we only get to meet up with each other a couple of times a year. this time as a thankyou from innervation we got to do raft building and mess around at Sale Water Park in Manchester. My team lost as we went for speed rather then floatability, oh well it's about taking part isn't it. It was such a hot day I was glad to spend most of it in the water to be honest !!

I'm gonna leave it there for today and will do the next instalment in a couple of days cause I've gopt loads more and don't want to drown you in words :-)

Kat xxx

Comments

[jeni]

YOU'RE STILL ALIVE!!!!!! Hurrah! Sounds pretty huge, the stuff God's doing with you guys. I'll pray, definitely. When're you coming up to visit? The house is all in order and I'm sure there'll be a bed available (not in the attic this time!) if you want!
Looking forward to the next instalment...!