The following ‘blog’ has been produced by Rich – Den’s travelling assistant as Den is still in the States and has had an incredibly busy couple of weeks.
“The last two weeks Den and Rich have been in the
The first part of the 7 days in
The trip then got disrupted by the snow, at least 10 inches fell overnight, and so we were forced to stay in the hotel! However, God really used this time to show us how he wanted the cluster idea to develop into what we are calling ‘The Rooftop’ gatherings. The clusters which Den is setting up, will come together for a 36 hour period and on the middle evening the group will be taken up to a rooftop over-looking the city. This whole idea came from reading Acts 10 : 1 – Acts 11: 18, when Peter goes up onto the roof to pray, God gives him a new vision and therefore he goes to the gentile house and tells them the gospel. Please pray that during these rooftop moments, the church leaders and church planters involved will be open and allow God to give them a new vision for their cities, one where everything is clean and everyone deserves to know about Jesus!
By Monday, the snow was more manageable and we had our first meetings, when we portrayed the rooftop idea to leaders they said they got “spiritual goose bumps” which was very inspiring because it showed that this idea really was from God and not us! All of these meetings were extremely successful and there will now be four ‘Rooftops’ happening in
After a very effective and successful week in
Following on from this, we were met by Tim McCoy who is Director of Youth Ministries within CBOQ and then the three of us travelled 2 and a half hours north to
Blizzard conference is mainly for church youth groups, this was the biggest attendance on record, around 700 14+ came and it was an incredible three days. Den and Rich were the speakers for the entire conference and God really spoke powerfully the entire weekend. It was amazing to see him inspire and challenge so many young people to go out and love His world and make a real difference living authentic, faith driven lives for Jesus! Everyone kept saying they loved the authenticity, realness, rawness and passion and so many youth leaders kept telling us how much conversation the talks were causing amongst the young people.
One of many stories we heard was of a 16 year old girl called Tabatha waking up her youth leader called April at