The Gathering
The Gathering is a meeting for students from across Manchester to worship God together and reach out to our campuses with the Gospel. Last Friday the 2nd of Oct, students from King’s Church, Ivy Manchester, Life Church, Reach, Hope, Audacious Church and other churches from across the city were present.
It felt wonderful being in the presence of other young women and men of God that are hungry for more of Jesus, and also hungry for making Jesus famous throughout Manchester and beyond. It showed me that the power of God truly works within many students today.
Worship
With over a hundred students at the gathering, the praise and worship was very powerful. I felt God move through me and it was awesome.
Testimonies
The testimonies gave us all another reason to give God thanks. I was really encouraged by the young man who testified about going out onto the streets and praying for others. Also the testimony of the man with vocal paralysis, doctors said he would never talk again, but through prayer and the grace of God he got completely healed.
Prayer and Encouragement
The different prayers that we made were also very powerful. There were different stations set up for prayer. The first was ‘Seed of Hope’ – a prayer about the area of your life that you want to grow in. ‘Bucket of Love’ was another station, where we wrote an encouraging note to someone. ‘You’ve Got Mail’ was the station where we wrote a letter to ourselves about the areas of our lives that you want to improve in and open it on the 2nd June 2010. We then did business with God at the ‘Sin Bin’ shredding station. The ‘University Prayers’ was the station where we prayed for different universities to receive a blessing from God. Lastly there was ‘Rewrite the Night’, where we prophetically declared over clubs and different students’ nights.
I believe that God has a huge purpose for the students of Manchester and will use them to see His kingdom increase in Manchester.
Ruth-Anne Burgher
