Next Generation…

So this weekend we are holding a conference here called the Next Generation Conference, which is pretty cool! I didn’t really know what to expect, but it turns out the first day was amazing! This evening a lady called Andrea Williams spoke, who heads up a christian thing that basically helps fight injustice for loads of stuff here in the UK, so for example you may of heard about the nurse the other week that got suspended for offering to pray for a patient. So Andrea and her charity thing were the ones who went in to fight injustice for her in law suites or whatever and now she has her job back and stuff! It turns out that now the nurse is legally allowed to ask the patients to tick or not tick a box that says do you have any ‘spiritual needs’ which means that she now has the right to ask every single patient if they want prayer! So because she stood up for her rights, she has more rights and more doors have opened!

The worship band is pretty fab this weekend too, a few guys have come back up from the conference who used to be in Aldates, (The Elites!) so it sounds amazing. One of last years interns came back too to lead, i had the pleasure of playing electric guitar in his band at Risky on Thursday night too, which was cool! He is such an amazing guy actually, such a natural worship leader, and an honest worship leader. He just seems to carry around the holy spirit with him and has the ability to just take people straight into the presence of God it seems!

One thing that stuck out to me about him was tonight a few of us went to the bar after the conference, and after we were just stood outside chatting about to go our seperate ways, and suddenly Owen starts walking off in the opposite way, and we were like where is he going now? It turns out they had noticed a guy sat on the floor selling the Big Issue, so as we were just talking, he had gone out of his way to go and sit with him and chat with him. He then ran off to go and buy him some food. Now that’s what i call a worship leader.