Transmission complete! - 14 Jul 2005
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I'm a pretty sleepy Trundle in the 24-7 office today, Carla Trundle reports. Tuesday evening I returned from six days of camping with 300 other good friends for Transmission, 24-7 Prayer's festival for mission
and a launchpad for this year's 24-7 teams I usually find it hard
to judge how an event went when I'm involved in organising it but this
time I can honestly say it was a great success! |
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***The people. I always love it when the 24-7
community gathers but this was particularly great. For once we
had a few days together, time to chill, talk and deepen
friendship. It was fantastic to see Adam Cox from Kansas City, Veronika from Frankfurt and get to know Andy Frost and Jo Wells (see pic right!) from Share Jesus a little better. |
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***The Revelation Church contingent.
For the first time in ages there were a serious number of Chichester
people at a 24-7 gathering. I loved it. Musicians featured were Onehundredhours and the Revs band. I was so incredibly proud of Michaela (multitalented singer-songwriter Michaela also works in the 24-7 International Office supporting prayer rooms) and the boys who really stirred everyone to worship. (Editor's note: Revelation Church is
the congregation in Chichester, England, who helped kick off the 24-7
movement back in 1999 after having the first ever prayer room - read
more in Red Moon Rising) |
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***The diversity of teaching. I really can't explain how bizarre and wonderful this was. There were so many speakers from different disciplines and backgrounds that the event was wonderfully schizophrenic. There were things I loved and things I found really hard to listen to, it's rare for a community to invite voices that don't completely fit with the culture of the community to shake you out of your complacency.
***Morning Prayers with Ray Simpson. This was truly one of the best elements of the weekend. Ray is from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and brought their unique brand of morning liturgy to lead us in prayer. I absolutely loved it. I was surprised how much it focused me on Jesus. I was raised occasionally attending a Catholic church so I'm fairly familiar with the format but never adopted it for my prayer life. Truly inspiring.
***Evening teaching. Ian Nicholson and Pete Greig especially impacted me. What am I building? Mission isn't about a nice little experience once a year but a lifestyle, a lifetime, a life view. Lots of questions, lots of chats over tea me thinks.
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***The comradery. Everyone was truly fantastic
throwing themselves into every aspect of the weekend. It would
have been rubbish if everyone had sat back and expected to be
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***Monday morning; it all kicked off. Trent shared about going out and taking the world for the Kingdom of God. I was leading the meeting, time was pressing and logic said lets move on but I felt so challenged that if we moved on we'd miss something, it would become just another talk that would never lead to action. As we knelt in silence Tre (Trent's older Bro) jumped up and got us praying for the different spheres we were called to. He looked each group in the eye and said,
"You are our plan, go out and change the world. You're our plan for education, you're our plan for government, you're our plan for the family, go make disciples, transform the culture, bring the Kingdom of God."
Lots of nervous laughter ensued and Tre looked perplexed.
"I'm serious, if we don't do it who will. You're our plan, make it happen."
I loved it, people met for coffee, exchanged numbers prayed together and decided to see what would happen if we connected and started getting pro-active in the spheres of society we're part of. Watch this space.
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