The first Encounter gathering focussed on the issue of freedom, coinciding, as it did, with the bicentenary commemoration of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. We encountered God in worship and prayer and interceded on behalf of those who are even now, enslaved. A hilarious drama saw an elderly couple reminiscing about their days as Hebrew slaves in Egypt when they had pots of meat and didn't have to listen to Miriam's tamborine playing in the wilderness! The teaching focussed on the things that keep us enslaved in our own lives; things that make us want to remain in or return to, 'Egypt', whatever that might be.
The evening ended with an opportunity to exchange a stone, symbolic of the things that hold us back from experiencing total freedom, for a key, symbolic of the freedom which Christ offers.
God made himself known that night. Roll on April 21st!
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