Hitting Streets of Huddersfield

For mission week in Huddersfield we are joined by around 30 young people volunteering for a year on the Frontier Project from across the Newfrontiers Churches in the North and beyond. Around 30,000 fliers were given out to the people of Huddersfield. Many on the streets of the town centre or through the letter boxes of Paddock, Quarmby, Fixby,, Golcar and Almondbury. We also got everybody in the FP team and the Huddersfield Church Planters treasure hunting. This is basically a gentle introduction to prophetic evangelism, which makes it acccessible to all spirit-filled Christians. For many people it was the first time that they had done anything like it. However, there were many stories of people touched by God as the team mfound their treasure. Whether it was just being picked out by God-inspired clues as being special or if there cacn be no doubt that God was singling them out, succh as the guy who had tattoes of both names on the treasure map,, as they were his kids names. Most excitedly there were also stories of two healings on the streets, one lady with a painfully left elbow and a young girl with a damaged wrist. Hopefully many of the fliers will by seed that lands on good soil and many people will be at Friday's Alpha launch

Church Planting in Huddersfield

I have decided to resurrect an old idea of writing a blog. This decision has come about partly as I was rubbish the first time, but mostly because I wanted a way of chronicling the planting of the Ark, a Newfrontiers church in Huddersfield. As of Friday we will be officially launched with Alpha in the Keys Restaurant in the centre of town. Over the coming weeks I will be blogging lots on the mission week beginning tomorrow and the subsequent alpha course and all aspects of planting the church. No doubt there will also be some science and theology and random thoughts to keep you entertained as well!

Why blog?

I intend this blog to be a living example of the (increasingly uneasy) union of God and Science. Until 150 years ago the gentleman scientists, who had for 650 years populated our great universities, had no problem seamlessly combining the study of these two great searches for truth. However, science seems to now be commonly perceived as the antithesis of religious belief, in contrast to the Biblical model of God's Word revealed in scripture and God's Word revealed in nature. The modern debate seems to be deluged by extremists who either believe that the Bible is the only source of truth or who see every facet of science supporting their presupposition of a godless universe. There have of course been exceptions to this sweeping generalisation, with people such as Sir John Houghton and Francis Collins much more qualified to talk on this topic, but I hope it is of some interest to see the average, non-high flying scientist trying to live his life for God.

Form-wise the blog is going to be an organic chronicle of my life and thoughts, hopefully replacing all the accumulations of random scraps of paper, notebooks, and text files etc. I guess most of the deep and meaningful posts will be related to theology or science, but I expect there will be fun things and much randomness posted as well. I have to admit this is largely for myself, as some sort of cathartic, creative outlet for my thoughts, but if anyone wants to follow my personal journey then enjoy!