Pilgrim Soldier

One of the problems we’ve been facing here is the fact that most of the people who come through our doors on a weekly basis are either members of the corps, or have been coming for the best part of 20 years. This means that there is a certain flow to every week that sees little deviation.

So Zoe & I decided that we would hold a special evening at the corps. Seeing as this week is the start of Lent, and that our Tuesday programme is already busy, we instead set up a Pancake Day evening tonight. Zoe, along with the husband of one of our adherents, spent two hours in the kitchen cooking many pancakes!

The wonderful news is that 30 people came, of which only half attend on a Sunday! Several others come to various of our weekday programmes, but 7 (plus 2 babies) came who have only been in the building one or less! This included the two couples who we are getting to know fairly well in our street.

Whilst there was nothing overtly evangelistic about the venture this evening it was great to be able to build upon the relationships that have been made over the years. It was great to see people chatting to each other and for myself I enjoyed the chance of spending some time with my neighbours and getting to know them a little bit more!

More than anything it was nice to open the doors to a group of people so that they experience something of the community that is possible within church.