So, it been a totaly crazy week! As usual i have left my blog update too long and all the events have piled up, so i'll dedicate this one to Wednesday~
As you may know from one of my previous blog posts, a 16 year old boy was stabbed in Home Park in Sydenham a few weeks ago, and although it felt like a long time, it was amazing how quickly the hype died down. A few people in the Barn and church had said we should be doing prayer walks around sydenham, and Nick Pearton's tragic death only fueled the urgency to do this - one of the youth had a chat to Jezza and so we went down there instead of having the normal barn programme.
A woman from the same road as the Peartons came to Barn to tell us more about the situation, and her heart for the family and the estate really moved us - truly she is salt and light. After some sung worship we all trooped out down the road to the estate. It was so amazing to be involved, we were literally stamping out the kingdom onto the pavements and roads as we went, and giving the enemy a real two fingered salute :P
We walked past Nick's house and saw all the cards and tributes people had left there, the flowers literally filled the front garden. The atmosphere in the estate felt really oppresive, and Nicks friends were hanging around in his front garden, and if you didnt know better it looked like they had just called on him and he was inside the house grabbing his shoes.
When we got to the park Mitchell shared a few words with us, and we got down to praying. A guy over by the play park was shouting "666" and "lucifer" at us, and it just brought home to me that spiritual battle is real.
We prayed for Nick's friends and they were very open with Jezza and some of the other leaders, and said that we had better come back. Im not sure what they thought about the spontaneous and heartfelt worship that we melted into, but they followed us like ghosts the whole time. By the end of the evening the atmosphere had definitely lifted, and we are planning to do a repeat trip - that place is so in need of prayer, and we cannot let Nick's friends down.
Afterwards everyone was buzzing, and we all felt like such a community. Several people said this is what real church felt like. I am fed up of pew warming. Lets go do stuff :D
over n out~
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