A national campaign under the banner of 'Hope Together' was officially launched at the Excel
Centre in London a few years ago. We are encouraged by the renewed national vision for the church to work together in bringing the message of hope into our communities.
In 2008 the vision of taking prayer out into the streets of our community was initiated under the
banner of the nationalcampaign 'Hope 2008'. and we continue to bring hope to people today.
Many churches across the nation took part in various forms of outreach into the community.
We visited a number of sites accross Castle Point offering prayer, or just a chat and a coffee.
Places we visited included:
The Knightswick Centre - Morrisons, Canvey - Bus Museum Show Day at Labworth Car Park -
Castle Point Show - The White Heart,Thundersley Village - Iceland Foods, Hadleigh - -
The Salvation Army Farmers Market, Hadleigh - Tarpots.
A new minibus was purchased; and the vision continued under the banner of 'Hope 2009',
as we went out into the community with the message that there is real hope in Jesus.
This message has continued under the hope banner.
We are continuing on a monthly basis visiting many of the same sites.
We have also extended the area to include Tesco's at Pitsea
and also the 'Boot Fayre' at Saddlers Farm. Many people have
been prayed for out on the streets, and even more have completed
the 'prayer cards'. It has been particularly encouraging to see prayer
cards being posted to us from areas some distance away from
Castle Point. We have also had others responding to us by e mail.
Our vision is to see many miracles of healing and salvation taking place out on
the streets of Castle Point as we persevere with our
commission of taking Jesus out into the community. It is also our desire that
this work will be seen as local Christians reaching out
into the community giving glory to Jesus, and not one particular congregation or denomination.
News and Testimonies of 2011
Prayer Tour Bus:
We have continued to reach out into the community during 2011 with many prayer request
cards being completed. Our venues have included a number of sites on
Canvey Island, Benfleet, and Hadleigh.
4th February 2012 Hadleigh
Our first 'Outreach' for 2012 was very encouraging with a good response.
A number of prayer request cards were completed on the day.
The minibus was positioned outside Iceland Frozen Foods in Hadleigh.
It was noticable that more people were
stopping to look at the literature on display.
Continuing into 2015 we have shared the good news of Jesus at the Castle Point Show and the Bus museum show day, and in the streets across Castle Point.
New for 2015 We have set up an open door coffee morning at the Oasis Centre in Benfleet every first Saturday of the month.
