It’s quite a common thing for churches to go away for a weekend and last weekend we did so together with friends from seven other Newfrontiers churches; Together @ Borderlands. I’ve been to more than a few of these over the years but this is likely to be my last one in the UK for some time and I had a great weekend.

I loved having all our church over for cake and then playing down on one knee catch with a basketball afterwards. I loved washing up and playing card games with my chalet friends and watching our children play together. This is the stuff of real community, genuine friendships and centred around something we share in common: the adoration of Jesus.

I loved extended times of praise and worship, loved hearing stirring preaching on how the grace and love of God compels us into mission and we so appreciated being affirmed, prayed for and sent out on mission ourselves.

It also captures something that I find to be, if not exactly unique, but actually quite rare is this banding together of churches to accomplish more together than we can alone. It’s a strong calling on Newfrontiers churches not to be independent even if they are autonomous, to pray and work together even if we’re not a denomination.

For other views of the weekend, check out Dave.