God's Guidance

We moved from West Auckland to Whangaparoa at the end of December 2016.  We were really happy at Church Unlimited and I didn’t want to leave as we had built relationships with precious people.  My husband felt it was too far to travel and that we needed to find a local body of Believers.  On New Year’s day we went to the local Baptist Church because the ‘church’ we found online only opened on 8th January.

My pregnant daughter wanted to come with us to church the following week, and suggested that we go to the other church my husband found online.  Our son was also visiting that day so the five of us came to Living Faith.

We sat side by side in a row and the row in front of us was lined with ladies who we later found out were the intercessory group.  Jean greeted us and the rest of the row followed in welcoming us.

Theuns brought a prophetic word over Phil and all of us were encouraged as it was so spot-on.  None of us wanted to leave the service .

All I can say is that we were blown away by this amazing group of people.  We had only just arrived but week after week Jean assured us that the intercessory group were praying for my daughter and her baby.  We hadn’t even asked.

When she hit difficulties on her due date and the two weeks before the birth, we felt like we were being carried in prayer by the intercessory group as well as Theuns and Nastasya.   We were so grateful to Rosa and her prayer group.

Week after week they never tired of praying for us and were always interested in what was happening as we faced challenges once our Babydoll was born, even though Alicia was unable to attend.  Caralise came to see her and our Babydoll and Heather was on hand to support them as well.

Theuns and Nastasya came to pray over our little Babydoll when she faced some health challenges and when our 11 week old was in hospital for 11 days, we knew we were being carried on the wings of prayer.

We know this is where we are meant to be.

Everyone welcomed us with open arms from the very beginning and we have formed friendships we are so grateful for, especially during this trying time.  Normally we jump in boots and all, but we have not been in a place to do that at this stage but we still feel such love and acceptance from everyone.

Acts 17v26 says, "From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live."

We know God has ordained where we moved to, as Theuns and Nastasya are our neighbours,  and we also know that we are meant to be at Living Faith.  We have heard of so many stories where people have to go looking for a body of Believers to belong to and we are grateful Holy Spirit led us here.

Every week we are more amazed at the raw honesty and vulnerability from the pulpit that doesn’t leave the people guessing about what’s going on.  The leaders’ lives are open books and this means so much to us.

We want to thank each and every person who has prayed for us and made us feel like we have come home.

Shalom

Brenda