Advent is a season in the church calendar, from the 4th Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve. It is a time of expectancy awaiting to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the babe in manger but also reaching into the future and looking forward to the time when Jesus will return as Lord.
We may celebrate each year but the experience is NOT the same each year. The wheel of the purposes of God is forever turning onward. Advent this year is not the same as Advent last year, or the year before: circumstances have changed and how dramatically this year! The spiritual landscape has changed too. We are in unique times as the people of God.
If ever there was a time for the need to share The Waterfall Journey it is now.
Why? It is because in a thirty year apprenticeship we come to these times. As we read the spiritual landscape before us now, we lack a clear map but what we do know is that it is time for the people of God to awake.
God's purposes require, we His people, to be the Holy Bride and the Army ready for action before Jesus can return.
We know that what God has shared with us in The Waterfall Journey, has taught us over these years, that has changed our lives is a key to helping others enter God's story and to see their part in these times.
This is the adventure of Advent.
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING?
+ Since September we have done 3 courses on Zoom
2 x weekend courses and 1 x five 2 hour sessions.
All have been followed up by Waterfall team members
Though these have only involved small numbers each starfish counts !!!!!
+ In different locations Waterfallers are walking alongside indivduals as well as using
what we have learned in their own unique ministries.
+ We have on Zoom had 2 follow up sessions with the Worcestershire groups, who
have done the course over the last 4 years and meet regularly for catchups.
+ The first use of the Small Group study - Biblical Foundations is underway.
+ We are building up the resource bank on Dropbox
+ This new web site is up and running and we are slowly learning how to use it!
WHAT NEXT FOR 2021 ?????
The BIG QUESTION is how do we share the good things that the Holy Spirit has given us of the Father's heart, in Waterfall Journey, so that God's people can be ready for the return of Jesus. It is the big adventure of advent.
I am hoping to complete over the next few months two more Bible Studies and we will go on trying to make this site more relevant and to add to the resources.
However, the major effectiveness of the life changing teaching comes through initial input and then following that up with consolidating what that means for the individual as they go onward on their journey of discipleship.
CAN YOU HELP?
First and foremost, we need to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.
However, would you consider, prayerfully if there is anything that God is laying in your heart about being involved next year?
I pray you will all have a blessed and peaceful Advent and that you may be captured by an excitement as we look forward to what God will do as we move on.
xx Angie
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