Locked out of our building unable to meet in person has made us revisit church. For us church was never the building but the people who met together in that building. This is where being church rather than going to church takes on real meaning. Many have learnt new skills adapted and changed.We as a church have recorded services drawing on some of the congregations amazing technical skills, we have Zoom coffee, we meet in zoom house groups. Each day we have coffee together catching up, chatting and laughing together.
We have utilised WhatsApp to allow people a chance to chat, to ask for help and to ask for prayer
- utilising an army of prayers lifting people to God, interceding for people.
It has been uplifting to share experience together, to be the encourager one day and the encouraged another day - to learn from each other and to help carry each other through this crisis.It has been encouraging to see children taking the names from our prayer board and taking them to heart praying for them each day.
For our children and young people we are seeking to engage in different ways, but for our Christian families the spotlight has returned to where it always should have been, to the home and the way faith is lived out in their families - it is in the conversations, the insights and the witness that we are in this time of crisis that will impact the faith of our children far more then the teaching and craft we provide.
