Tonight’s Night Church must have made history. Not for the best reasons I might add. Up until 10.45pm, we only had two of us on the team when at 10.45pm we were joined by a third. We had to decide to close or not.
The City was very quiet tonight and without doubt, the credit crunch has hit Stoke On Trent for sure. There was hardly a person around. In fact, the first person to come in was a police officer who came in to use the toilet.
Therefore, as it was so quiet we decided to stay open for an hour and monitor the night as we went. Around 11.50pm, we had our first group of people come in and we had a good time having a chat for around 30 minutes. After they left we closed at 12.20am and called it a night.
Some good did come from the night by sorting all the books and free bees out and we had a general tidy. We had new mugs to drink from and had plenty of time to pray. A woman came in wanting to come and join the team for a couple of weeks starting from next week and this is great news as it proves that the word of Night Church is getting about to folk.
We have a fun day coming up after Easter and maybe this will be a good time to encourage team members to come either weekly or to form a couple of teams so we are not low in numbers alternate weeks.
At the end of the day, God did bless us tonight by giving us a well-earned rest. Thanks be to God.
The City was very quiet tonight and without doubt, the credit crunch has hit Stoke On Trent for sure. There was hardly a person around. In fact, the first person to come in was a police officer who came in to use the toilet.
Therefore, as it was so quiet we decided to stay open for an hour and monitor the night as we went. Around 11.50pm, we had our first group of people come in and we had a good time having a chat for around 30 minutes. After they left we closed at 12.20am and called it a night.
Some good did come from the night by sorting all the books and free bees out and we had a general tidy. We had new mugs to drink from and had plenty of time to pray. A woman came in wanting to come and join the team for a couple of weeks starting from next week and this is great news as it proves that the word of Night Church is getting about to folk.
We have a fun day coming up after Easter and maybe this will be a good time to encourage team members to come either weekly or to form a couple of teams so we are not low in numbers alternate weeks.
At the end of the day, God did bless us tonight by giving us a well-earned rest. Thanks be to God.
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