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Market this week… 5th February 2011

MarkB — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:15:34 +0000

Market this week… 29th Jan 2011

MarkB — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:05:40 +0000

Market starts this week! … 22nd Jan 2011

MarkB — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:58:46 +0000

No Market this week…but here’s a thought…

MarkB — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:26:54 +0000

No market this week…. but Happy New Year!

MarkB — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:24:09 +0000

End of Market 2010… MerRy ChRisTMaS and HaPpy NeW yEaR!

MarkB — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:51:26 +0000

Why not make some time this Christmas to pray to be steady, unswerving and extravagant in 2011.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

(Market will return from Saturday January 22nd 2011)

Christmas Market this week…18th Dec 2010

MarkB — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:44:55 +0000

Thanks to all who are volunteering, let me know if you need more info on when to arrive etc.

Wrap up warm!

Merry Christmas!

Market this week… 13th November 2010

MarkB — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:08:58 +0000

Earlier in the year Nokia hung the world’s biggest signpost from a crane at Tower Bridge.

The sign itself was taller than 2 double decker buses, weighed 60 tons and hung 50m in the air!

Big.

At the market stall we often have to learn to be a signpost…

This is where the closest free meal is (St. John’s Ealing on a Saturday lunchtime).

This is where Emmaus House is (they can give you advice on housing and free clothing, and a lunch monday-friday).

This is a leaflet about DAIS (they can help you with advice and guidance on drugs and alcohol).

This is the number for Alcoholics Anonymous (they have helped thousands of people beat addiction).

This is Christians Against Poverty (they help people get out of debt, I’m a befriender in fact - Befriender Training tomorrow 8pm@Willis’s).

This is our church (we love Acton and you are welcome to come to our Sunday service, it is at 4.30pm, Twyford School).

This is me, I am a Christian who is just trying to follow Jesus.

This is a story about a prayer getting answered, can I pray for you?

This is Jesus.

Lord will you help and bless this person.

Jesus operated in this way, he showed people where the Kingdom of God was breaking out.

He showed the lost children where to find their Father and he still does the same today.

We do not have the means to solve everyones problems.

But we can be really good signposts.

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THIS WEEK:

10-12: 2 spaces

12-2: 3 spaces

Can’t do a whole shift? Why not give 30 minutes? Anyone who wants to not serve drinks but chat and pray with people is always welcome.

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Learning to be a signpost.

Market pint and prayer@ Kings Head Pub Acton, 8-9.30pm, Tuesday 23rd November (come along for a drink, a thought from me and a pray).

Market Church – 6/11/2010

MarkB — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:28:21 +0000

Fireworks

When God speaks it’s like fireworks go off.

Darkness gets made beautiful with light.

Just look at creation…. God says: ‘Let there be light’ and there was the beginning of the universe!

When we pray for someone or listen to God for someone we give God opportunity to speak to that person.

And when God speaks, stuff happens!

Last week at the the stall the team prayed with someone and gave a prophetic word to someone else (ask Ruth Robinson!).

When they did this I think some fireworks went off in those peoples lives.

Any darkness was being made beautiful with Gods light.

This is exciting stuff, with the ability to pray and prophecy, we are walking around with fireworks in our hands.

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THIS WEEK:

10-12 – 3 spaces

12-2 – 2 spaces

Anyone who wants to not serve drinks but chat and pray with people is welcome too. We want to re-invigorate this vital part of Market life this term and the next.

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Learning to be God’s firework.

Mark Bishop

Out there, Oaktree Church.

We see hope in Acton

MarkB — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:15:43 +0000

WE SEE HOPE IN ACTON

because God sees hope in you.

Have you ever seen something and thought, who would say something like that? What do they mean?!

We see hope in Acton because we have experienced something in our lives that has overcome our disillusionment with life.

We see hope in Acton because we believe in the God who sent his son into a specific situation at a specific time.

This son did not come putting his hopes into politics or money, he planted his hope in human beings; and not just any human beings…it was the down and outs, the rough and ready, the taxman, the prostitute, the fisherman.

Our experience is that he is far better than society, far better than any substance, far greater than any addiction, not phased by any illness or death, he is Jesus.

We think that Jesus is the loudest way God could say to you and me; “I see hope in you!”

Isn’t it worth trying to meet the one whose whole life is given to you (yes you!) so you could know who made you?

Isn’t it worth trying to ask the one whose life was taken for you, what hope could I bring to the world?

As a local church in Acton we want to ask these kinds of questions.

We want to open a space where you can ask God about the hope he promises.

We see hope in Acton, because God sees hope in you.

From February 6th 2011 you can find us at

216 High Street,

Acton W3, London.

(where the banner is pinned!)

You can also find us NOW each Sunday, 4.30pm at Twyford School or

every Saturday 10-2pm at Acton Market serving free tea and coffee.