I’ve spent the last few days in the hills of mid-Wales at Cefn Lea. The sun shone and it was beautiful. More inspiring than the surroundings was the opportunity to bask in the grace of God to His people. Just great.

We gathered with hundreds of our brothers and sisters from churches in Whitchurch, Wrexham, Telford, Rugeley, Stafford and Shrewsbury. We were superbly led in worship by Phatfish (and at the time of writing, the very pregnant Lou Fellingham) and in the leadership from Jeremy & Anne Simpkins and Julian Adams from Christcentral, Manchester.

The guys from church played their part, Matt Pattison did a superb job in getting so many people there, Lis Davies and Rob Smith had major roles in leading the children, Ray Green in doing the finances for the event and even better was seeing the contributions of spiritual gifts from our guys. Keep going with that, seeing heartfelt, Spirit-led, grace filled, truth imparted in worship. Great stuff.

It really felt like we made a step in faith towards a new level of mission together in our region too, that God was bringing us into a new chapter. It won’t be easy but it will be worth it. Let’s press on together…