After a 10.30am service at Kendal it was time to head down the M6 for a 2.00pm start at City Church, Lancaster. And what a start it was with a great healing testimony after 25 minutes of the meeting starting . . . A student came forward to tell us that he’d been born with cerebral palsy, and that as a result he’d had severely restricted movement all down his left hand side. He told us that his muscles hadn’t formed properly and that was why he couldn’t twist round. He then showed us just how far he could now twist round and it was a lot further than anyone else around me could. It was one of those times, when everyone could see that something big had just happened. There was a lady called Faye who reported a healing from excma, Jez, who was leading the worship band said he’d been healed from 5 years of neck pain and also Katy who had back problems.

I then delivered an talk that had an uncanny resemblance to the one I’d given at Kendal two hours previously, and off the back of that 4 people responded to the opportunity I gave to say become a Christian, or to “cross the bridge” as I put it linking to the illustration I was using at the time.

It was then a four and a half hour drive home, but it gave me ample time to reflect upon the fact that church planting is amazing. Only a few years ago neither the Kendal nor the Lancaster churches existed. Rob and Jo Horn (who lead both churches) were living in Salford and had no intention of moving further north. But yesterday there were 300 people in attendance across the two venues.

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