"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few." Matthew 9:37

Ain’t this the truth, most weeks we can see how much work there is to do. However there simply is never enough people to talk to all the people who deep down are interested in Spiritual matters or even those who are ready to get saved right there and then. We have discovered that the work at Dwell is immense. Firstly there are those who have never really heard the gospel before, there are those who need reminding and there are those who have made a decision but they lack someone to disciple them. In the last month we have looking to transition more to discipleship. Nevertheless the truth is we have a bunch of baby Christians who still have doubts on a regular basis and fall off the map too. This issue is not going to be solved instantly. We are running a couple of sessions to disciple these very new believers through our Bible study where we are doing First steps but more about our sessions in another blog.

A massive drawback has been the lack of people to both talk to the guests and spend time with them both talking about spiritual matters and also modelling what a Christian looks like beyond myself the Faith Coordinator.

We have been praying madly for more workers and thankfully I can say they are starting to appear. Earlier this year we had a young man in his final year of University who was studying Astro Physics, he had recently become a Christian found Barnabus and wanted to volunteer. What an asset he was to the team whilst he was around. He is off travelling at the moment but we do hope that he will join us again if he is able. Despite being a new believer his maturity, relationship with the Holy Spirt and bible knowledge was astounding.

Since then we have been joined by another young man, very different to the one above but one with a beautiful servant heart who rocks up most weeks for our Light session and before I know it everything is already set up.

Only last week we had a lady come to visit the bible study who had heard about The Dwell Project from Neil who was preaching at her church recently. She literally felt compelled by God to come and see us and as she was only free on a Tuesday she came to the Bible study. I had a delightful conversation with her afterwards and I am sure she is going to be an amazing member of the Bible study team which is slowly emerging.

Earlier in the Year we had a group from The Message school of Evangelism based in Manchester, they would come every week for some months to chat to the guests and also to assist us with The Light session. Every year the students become part of the Dwell team very quickly and we are always sad to see them go. Then we get another team later in the year around this time. Last week one of our previous MSE students returned to us who is from Rwanda and he was joined by 5 others from Nigeria, Namibia, Pakistan and India. I had the pleasure of listening to some of their coming to faith stories and the miraculous journey of coming to Manchester to do the MSE School. They were only around a couple of days but what an impact they made from their beautiful prayers both in the beacon and on a prayer walk around the city at some significant landmarks relating to our guests. Beyond this they led some incredible worship for the Alpha Holy Spirit day. It was like we as the Dwell team along with a Barnabus Staff member had the privilege of walking into their time with God. The worship they led was phenomenal it was out of this world heavenly. We could feel a strong beautiful Powerful presence of his Holy Spirit. As a result many of our guests experienced God presence. One of our guests remarked that it was the best day of his life.

Unfortunately, they were only passing through but recently we accepted a member of the Dwell team who will be with us for a year. Furthermore she is not just with for an hour a week but 2 whole days. Cristina all the way from Georgia USA has been sent to us from Manchester House of Prayer to support us especially in the area of Prayer, which we are really excited about. We know that God is going to move through her to reach our guests and also to Champion prayer at Barnabus generally.  She has already shared her incredible Life story to our guests at the Light session and she is beginning to get to know our guests and share the Gospel with them. We will be sharing more of what she is up to in subsequent blogs. See you very soon