We had an amazing time of worship this morning at the Darlington Art Festival. It is a community event in a small hillside suburb called Darlington. The place is beautiful, old beautiful houses surrounded by a mountain of trees.
Ps. Rod from the local community church invited us to open the festival this morning with some praise and worship whilst people are setting up and crowd starts coming in. He did mention that the community is quite stand off ish towards Christianity. They don't really wanna have anything with it. But he thought it'd be a good idea to just open the festival today with some praise atmosphere and bring God into the community through our praise and worship.
It's been on off raining throughout the week. We haven't had the best weather this week. Even this morning as i was driving there it was raining and gloomy. I wasn't sure how the day will pan out. It even crossed my mind that they might cancel the festival due to bad weather.
I arrived at the venue at about 8.30ish, half an hour before we were meant to start. I put on V's jacket coz the weather was quite cool. But then as we continued setting up and practicing, the sun started to shine....
At 9 am we started our first song. People started arriving. I noticed most of them sat down and watch us like we are some sort of band performing, but some of them actually stood up and worshipped with us, which was great to see.
We had about 40 minutes worth of worship and the atmosphere was lifted, the sun was shinning so gloriously warming us up that I had to take off V's jacket and my own layer of cardigan.
I prayed and believed that the words and the good news of Jesus that were spoken through the songs this morning will be like seeds spread on the ground. God's words are never spoken in vain or for nothing. We will one day reap what we sow and these people will seek God and filled up our English service.
Isaiah 55:11 NLT
It is the same with my word.
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to,
and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
The worship session was awesome. God was there. He blessed us with the most glorious sunshine and a beautiful morning and atmosphere of worship.
Soon one hour was over and we left. Right after we left the rain started pouring..... I feel terrible for them but at the same time wishful that it spoke of God's blessings over our service this morning.
Overall it was an amazing outreach and we believe that when we give God the small that we have, the Lord will multiply and use it for His Kingdom.
