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Monday, 26 April 2010
The First Rooftop
I arrived at Heathrow terminal 4 praying that my flight would not be delayed as I had just an hour to get through immigration in NY city. As it was the flight landed in New York and hour early. My flight down to Norfolk Virginia also arrived about 40 minutes early so instead of a mad rush to the venue I even had time to check into my room and have a shower.

Around 20 people from a number of churches had gathered for this first cluster and following an introduction to More to Life we all went to the rooftop of the Hilton hotel in Virginia Beach and considered, in three small groups, what new vision God wanted to give us in terms of reaching people in the city.

Feedback the following morning was just amazing with people sharing how God had spoken to them in such meaningful and personal ways, helping them to see the lost as He sees them. One pastor spoke of this experience as among the most significant experiences of his life! In spontaneous response to this feedback we all joined together in a large circle, facing outwards, and prayed together that God would help each of us to take the next step in reaching the lost. The silent but awesome presence of God at the end of this prayer time was tangible.

The next step for all who attended is to now go and lead More to Life in their local church. I will meet with the cluster again in December to offer guidance and support as we pray together for the Christmas outreach that will take place.
Overall the experience was awesome! I can’t wait for the next clusters in Richmond, in July.
Dennis
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Oh my goodness. It has been months since my last blog, and so much has happened since I last wrote. Here are some highlights.
The most exciting thing for me is that the More to Life materials that I have been writing (published by Lifeway in the US) www.lifeway.com are now completed and released. The quality of these is great and the interest in them is huge. I have taken my own picture of these on my table at home just to show that they are really here!
We will soon be beginning an initiative in 3 states in North East America (Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York) called the Rooftop. The Rooftop is a series of clusters taking place across the 3 states. Leaders will attend and I will be training them in the More to Life approach with a view that they will then use it in their church and introduce it to others. A key aspect each cluster will be the rooftop experience where we will go to a rooftop overlooking the city and seek a new vision for the lost. I encourage you to read Acts chapters 10 and 11 – you will see, I believe, what we feel God is inspiring us to do. If you want to share anything with me about these then please email me.
In addition I have just completed a series of meetings across Texas where there was considerable interest among significant churches both in using More to Life but also championing it to other churches. I was particularly inspired by meeting with one ‘mega church’ senior pastor who thinks he may teach More to Life to the whole church over six Sunday’s because he wants all the people in his church to engage in faith sharing.
Beyond the US, Lifeway are also providing support for me to continue the development of More to Life in several other English speaking countries around the world. This is a great (and yet another) ‘God thing’ where so many of the contacts I have been building with the Baptist World Alliance can now be resourced by Lifeway. Also, I am speaking at an international distributors meeting with Lifeway in St Louis in June this year and a really exciting piece of news is that Lifeway have made it possible for me to speak at the international distributors service which is part of a huge conference hosted in the US. I will be speaking to around 300 distributors from all over the world. As I said ‘it is a God thing.’
We will also soon be beginning the production of an Hispanic More to Life ‘Mas a la Vida’ subject to funding. Please pray that interest expressed in this will turn into tangible support for the project.
As well as developing these contacts I have spoken at a number of churches where I have challenged believers to ‘cross the line’ and make a decision to be a believer who shares their faith with others – responses have been so encouraging. The best part each time has been when the pastor has asked people to share out loud why they have come forward. The depth and sincerity of sharing is so exciting – God has been touching many lives and filling people with the passion that He has for the lost.
I will be in touch soon.
Den
Friday, 12 February 2010
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
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Off to the States
Dennis recently recorded a blog which is accessible via the Viz-A-Viz website - http://www.vizaviz.org/latestnews/ - with an update.
Enjoy!!
Friday, 9 October 2009
Dennis spent a lot of time recently with
Saturday evening at
Saturday’s, Premier Christian Radio:
1305, 1332, 1413 MW
Sky Digital 0123
Freeview 725
Dennis has told me that they are having great fun in recording and producing the programmes aided by Steve Fanstone of Premier Radio. They are talking with many people in and around
Dennis is now in the States for four weeks during which time he will be updating his blog and sharing some of the exciting things he is getting up to! To help you pray for Dennis while he is away his itinerary is below.
Friday 9 –
Evening taking last session of More to Life Training at church
Monday
Tuesday 27 Oct –
Tuesday 3 –