Hi 2of6 - sorry to hear you have poorly children again - hope they all feel better soon.

New Wine was great thank you and thanks for your prayers. The weather in the first part of the week was glorious then from Tuesday it was pretty mixed but the rain came and went rather than just statying so it wasn’t so bad really!

Highlights were extended times of worship and some great speakers - now we’ve all heard Bill Johnson we know where Mark has got all his recent sermons from! Plus of course hanging out with other Oaks around the campsite is always great fun and relationships are deepened.

It was great to have so many of us there this year - obviously I know for some it’s just not practical to come but for anyone who’s wavering - I’d really encourage you to come and give it a go next year! Even the camping isn’t too bad honestly - my top tip is make sure you have a really good sleeping bag and then you’ll be fine!

The highlights for me were Bill Johnson’s Friday morning seminar on dealing with disappointment with God, and a brilliant seminar on bringing up children given by Will and Caroline Kemp, “Jesus is the perfect parent”. I’m going to order some copies of these (once they appear on the website - NW 2008 isn’t there yet!). If anyone wants a copy of either of these I’d be happy to order extra copies. Bill Johnson’s Thursday evening address was also very good - especially the ministry time afterwards. I was impressed by his humility and lack of showbiz style. It was nice the way that he got everyone to pray/minister to each other rather than doing it all himself. I think there are Oak Tree people who have testimonies of people they prayed for being healed that evening. On the worship front - no great knock-out songs like “Shackles” this year but still excellent - particularly remember a great rendition of the old gospel version of O Happy Day which took the roof off venue 1 one evening. Haven’t bought the main worship CD this year but the older kids’ one “Unleashed” is very good