1350 Turn up at Youth Conference

500 Youth were expected on Monday at the Youth Conference, but by the end of day one the headcount had reached 1350 and there were still people arriving from all over the diocese

Greg Downes, evangelist and SOMA Team leader, aware that God was moving and the youth gathered were keen to respond, tried to narrow down the response to only the most committed, urging them not to stand unless they really wanted to make a commitment to Christ. 400 still stood. This included at least some first time commitments to Christ, including a boy who had grown up as a Muslim.

1 person was healed in the session - despite healing not even being on the agenda. Even the clergy were responding wanting prayer, and there were spiritual manifestations of all sorts.

It is a diocese with a Cathedral attendance of 3500 across its services, so one of the items on the agenda its to expand the building. This conference has shown how it can quickly reach capacity, with the teaching moving outside under gazebos for the rest of the time.

The SOMA UK team come from St Mary’s Cogges, St Paul’s Hammersmith and All Saints Ipswich. The mission had begun with Sunday preaching and the team of three were up early to visit St Peter’s church Iganga. They had a long morning, giving a greeting to the 7 am service, team member Anthony preached on ‘suffering and blessing’ at the 9 am service (while team leader Greg Downes gave a children’s talk ‘getting off the piggy back’ of their parents faith ) and Diana preached on ‘healing’ at the 11am service. Several folk professed to be healed after prayer

As Greg put it: ‘Praise the Lord for his kindness this morning!’

Please keep praying for all in the Diocese for the Kingdom to Come on earth as it is in heaven.