Rhythm & Roots

Sunday, April 23, 2006

This past week has been an incredible one. gLo was absolutley amazing - over one hundred young people out on the streets of Lurgan trying to be Jesus. This prayer-filled sacrificial community seeking for epiphanies of the Almighty in little old Lurgan is gathering strength. The army is increasing in size and in stature - you see bones, i see an army. This army loves their Captain and their cry in is the heavenly shout of 'C' mon!'
Well done to all you guys who visited old people, cleaned gardens, ran the kids club, hung out with teenagers, coached football and painted murals. Let's make this kind of living a lifestlye. I love the rawness and lack of religion there is when we get together - i feel priviledged to be part of it and when we worship God together it feels goood to be alive. Pray as if it all depends on God and live like it all depends on you.

from gLo it was straight into our mission fundraiser last night. Wow - another great night. we managed to raise approx 17000 pounds towards our trip to Uganda. A massive thank-you to the team for pulling together so well and making the night such a success.

I should say in between all this we managed to get beat 2-0 by Linfield!! Ah well!! One more game to go and then we get a break!!

So today i am a bit knackered - running on empty but full of hope - i feel alive inside me. Knowing Jesus brings that deepest kind of joy we can find and being part of a kingdom of hope faith and love that seeks to bring the beauty of God to the world is LIFE IN ITS FULLNESS.

Leave me a comment!!

13 Comments:

  • Stop selling us short - we got £18,000 AT LEAST on Saturday night!! and the
    money is still coming in!
    Anyway, I know i wasn't really about much last week for gLo but it was great
    seeing the young people of our town come together and being so on fire for God!
    Keep up the good work!
    xo

    By Anonymous Grace Gault, At 1:52 PM  

  • Looks good Al. . .
    It's been a hectic few days for sure. . . but well worth the effort.

    Get some rest!

    rik

    By Anonymous ricky, At 5:27 PM  

  • enjoying reading your blog mate.

    By Anonymous Iain H, At 8:48 AM  

  • hey bro

    just want to encourage you - although i wasnt around for glo the reports iv heard are obvious that it so awesome, so well done to you and your team for all your time and effort in bringing Jesus into our community and for showing His love to the young people of Lurgan! God is proud of you and so am I!

    Love u

    Norms
    xo

    By Anonymous norms, At 11:27 AM  

  • Alain, sounds like your doing great work - amazing money raised. Im heading to Rwanda with young people from Ipswich also raising money! Just thought I'd leave you a comment.

    Martin Montgomery

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At 7:30 PM  

  • excellent Alain, good to see life is going well, sorry you lost to Linfield. Just had three boys from your neck of the woods out here, we had a blast. Keep going for it.

    By Blogger Brian Heasley, At 12:50 PM  

  • Alrite big Al, lovin your work pal with the whole blog thing. I've got one on myspace.com so I'll have to link you in from there. I hope your getting to take some time off this week cos i know you've just been flat out! I enjoyed tapping into the glo thing this year, its a great thing you have going there, must have a chat about it over the next coffee!

    Bless ya mate,
    Neil

    By Anonymous Neilers, At 1:36 PM  

  • Great to see you on the blogging train bro!!! Keep the stories coming!!

    By Anonymous charlie knox, At 1:36 PM  

  • Al,
    Lovin' it pal! Good to see you on blog, makes a change from the bog! Gog bless pal, keep up the good work there.
    ps, need to get a new shirt, the last one's ripped, still laughing about that. Keep her lit in the old P+W.

    Later

    By Blogger Big Son (Glenbo), At 5:15 PM  

  • alright Al

    just wanted to say Monday night in church was amazing , the praise and worship was awesome, felt a real strong presence of God there just like Easter Sunday morning it was one of the best times ive had in church but on monday night just seeing people bounce up and down was class hope theres more of that to come ,its time to get excited for Christ and not just celebrate at Easter sunday but every sunday.......C'mon

    God bless

    Dean

    By Blogger dean, At 5:46 PM  

  • onwards & upwards (& outwards & forwards)

    looking forward to 'continuing' to live the life that gLo gives a 'taster' of.

    well, i like your blog. thanks for all.

    D

    By Anonymous Dave, At 5:51 PM  

  • Glad to hear the exciting update on glo...still havn't been about the place when Glo is going on!!...there's always next time:)

    By Blogger Kerry J, At 9:46 PM  

  • Yip I was there... Linfield deserved it! Only one team in Ulster mate ;)

    By Blogger Peter Martin, At 5:53 PM  

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