Highlights of the Sabbath year

These are some of the highlights, things we've learned, or eaten, things that have been fun in our Sabbath year.

• Eating together around one table  every day, and how that has deepened community.
• Enrolling our first soldier, with more in the pipeline.
• People getting free from addiction.
• People wandering in to ask for prayer for healing, and staying to get discipled.
• A blank slate to start again, in looking at who we are and what we're here for.
• Helpful to prioritise a day off and the need for rest every week, sets us up for the rest of life and ministry.
• It has been restful. Not that there's not been busyness or activity, but the pressure has been taken off.
• Harvest when cupboard load after cupboard load after cupboard load of food kept arriving and we struggled to find space to store it.
• When food for charities started to donate fresh fruit and veg just as we started to get sick of (donated) courgette soup.
• When Joan prayed for tomatoes to come in, to make soup with, and we were inundated and it raised peoples’ faith to pray for bigger, more significant things.
• Healings. So many healings. All the time. Backs, necks, shoulders, stomachs, legs, dogs. Every week we’ve had testimonies shared of how God has been healing.
• Becoming family, we're closer together.
• We've eaten a LOT of Subway platters.
• 'Sitting by the well', getting off the hamster wheel, leaving the rat race.
• Seeing the corps expand and people grow.
• Learning to make soup.
• Miracles of provision, healing, kindness...
• Harvest supper and Barn Dance.
• Priorities re-set correctly.
• Even though lots of our older people entered into their Eternal Rest this year, our numbers are not only keeping up, but growing.
• 130th birthday celebrations.