WITHOUT VISION.......

Today we have shared together in VISION SUNDAY. Once a year we set time aside to consider again the vision God has called us to have, and to consider how in the year ahead we might fulfil this more. We also have time as members and friends to consider the year past and the year ahead, and how we can help fulfil what God has called us too. It also, hopefully, also a time to encourage, challenge and refocus. This morning our senior leader, Ian, spoke on Vision and how we are all called to see. We started by singing At The Cross, where I first saw The Light and the burden of my heart rolled away - it was there by faith I received my sight.....and reminded that we must not allow satan to blind us as God has brought us into the Light, but how many of us choose not to see Jesus. We considered the vision of Ezekiel and the life given to dead bones. We considred the Vision of Isaiah and our Cry also to See the Lord. We considered How Vision Guides Us, Vision Empowers us, Vision Unites us, Vision Gives us Hope, Vision Gives us a Future. After sharing a buffet together - which was great to be together - we shared our membership meeting, where our senior leader reminded us again about Vision - and how we must believe in it, belong to it (ie commit to it) and beactive in it for it to be fulfilled. Various leaders shared their vision and where God has directed them and is directing them, and in all it was a helpful time of presentations and excitement for the future - a very important year for this church. Copies of the summary of the meeting will be available later this week. Thank you to all those who shared this time, to the children who enjoyed time together as well, and to everyone who shared presentations etc. We do not taken any of you for granted - and as Trev says - God loves you and so do I (we)