God Loves Peckham - Social Action and 24/7 prayer

Sorry this posting is so late after last Wednesday, but life has been a little hectic for me since then.
Last Wednesday Kate and Sally talked about Social Action and 24/7 prayer. After the talk we prayed together and felt that we should all be asking God to give us the gift of FAITH. So that we would not be afraid, but Bold and Courageous.

In terms of Social Action, if we want to BLESS Peckham and its inhabitants, lets get practical - there are things we can do - painting the rooms in Bradfield building, gardening, building ramps....the list goes on! Speak to Kate or Olly mailto:olly.mears@allsaintspeckham.org.uk if you want to offer services. Speak to Abi mailto:abi.coles@allsaintspeckham.org.uk if you want to get involved in the Pink and fluffy night - or speak to our own lovely Olivia mailto:olivia.brambill@allsaintspeckham.org.uk if you want to do anything else - I am sure she will be able to point you in the right direction.

There were other things which came out of the prayers too, but since I am not as good as Ant and taking notes and I am posting this several days later i cant remember them! Sorry guys, but please feel free to do a posting to update the blog.

BASICALLY - both social action and Prayer are very important. I have signed up for our homegroup to do an hour - although hopefully we can also do other slots too - there are many going! MONDAY 31 JULY (not August as previously posted) 2006 from 6-7pm Please come along.

God Loves Peckham 2

Today's session covered talking to people about our faith and prayerwalking. As a home group we came up with the following prayer walk to cover the areas that we feel called to serve:

Please can you all pray for the areas highlighted on this route (and any others), particularly in the run up to the God Loves Peckham week. Let us know if there's anything you feel God is particularly saying to you about these areas.

In case you can't read the key to the map, the areas are:

1. Kentish Drovers – pub, alcoholics, staff
2. Peckham Library & Square – people passing through, hanging around, safety
3. Peckham Pulse – staff, gym users, children in play areas
4. Canal Path – safety, direction for kids, claiming ground for God
5. Shops – owners, residents (inc. Hari Krishnas), safety
6. Damilola Taylor Centre
7. Estates
8. Bradfield Club

God Loves Peckham 1

New growth is focusing on the God Loves Peckham week, which starts on 31 July. There are loads of community/social transformation/other events going on to get involved with.
In the first new growth session, as a homegroup we settled on some key times, locations and events that we feel we should be involved in. If you're about in this week, please think about getting involved in one/some/all of the following (I've put in brackets why we chose these things):

Events:
- BBQ on Pelican Estate, evening, Tues 1 Aug (instead of homegroup)
- Peckham Square event, evening, Wed 2 Aug (we felt Peckham Square was something we need to support close to our homegroup base)
- Peckham Square event, all day, Sat 5 Aug

Times:
- If you are able to help out on any one day, go for Thursday 3 Aug; we decided to adopt this day as far as possible

Locations:
- Bradfield Boys Club - this is a social transformation project on Commercial Way to repaint and clear the club for use

Prayer points:
- whether you can make it or not, please pray for all of the above
- please pray for Olivia as she takes on the unenviable task of central control at church!

New growth - confirmed time

8pm! see you there...

Personality test

So, compared to my spiritual gifts assessment, how does a secular personality test come out?
Well, here it is...

My Personal Dna Report
- pretty similar stuff.

Unsurprisingly, Annie's is a lot more interesting - she's classed as a benevolent inventor?!

My Personal Dna Report

Ant

New growth

Hello all! I completed my spiritual gift assessment. The gifts that came out joint top were Leadership and Teaching; joint second were Administration and Wisdom.

So, to exercise my gift of Administration, I thought I ought to remind everyone that New Growth starts this Wednesday at Church, which means that homegroup will not be on. The start time hasn't been made clear - hopefully there was an announcement in Church this morning, or will be this evening!

See you all soon!