Love Southend - Day 1

Okay, I'm very tired but I want to blog about yesterday and today before tomorrow and I have another day to write about.

Yesterday (Sunday) was verty good. The Youth Band (TYB) were fantastic and I totally mean that. The worhsip was great and just so worshipful. God was so there and the youth and people involved in the youth mission got prayed for. Today was a day when I decided to finally give everything over to God in my life, something I've done and failed in a number of times, but something that God keeps on bugging me to do recently. We need to ask God to break our chains so that we can show the people we meet that they can be free too. Any areas that we struggle with, we need to ask for freedom because that is essentially part of what God offers us and part of what He's giving us and them.

The evening meeting was good also, the band were good also, and played some new songs which I sometimes find hard. The band did very well but they were tired as they'd been at it so much over the past few days / weeks and I guess months.


Today it kicked off properly. The meeting was really good and the band (I think it was Christchurch) was great! Plus points for singing the Third Day song 'God of Wonders'. At the end of the meeting we got into our groups. The group is quite diverse and we have a number of different ages and from different churches and areas.

We were working at Lornes Close which is basically waste land (photos to follow). There was an area which looked like people had been fly-tipping and so I decided to work on that area. The rest of the group worked on the rest of the area (they chose where to work) and some worked on that area too. We're there tomorrow and that's a good thing, we have lots of grafiti to get rid of and still more garden stuff to get rid of. It wasn't the best weather to be outside working and it did rain for a bit but we kept on working :)

The evening was good also, St. Luke's Church did a fantastic job of feeding us. The evening ended with some good worship also and people sharing their testimoney or anything that God had given them.

Well, it's sleepy time for me and I'm taking Chips (my brother - Christopher) to work early tomorrow and then going round to a ladies house to take down her curtains so another group can wash and put them up again.

This post may change tomorrow when I've rested.

God bless you all and I'll try and get some photos up soon (all from my camera phone, and they're pretty nice :))