Old friends

February has been a great month for me! After my return from France, I had a dear friend come and visit for a few days. We had a great time together catching up (she was a roommate in College who I haven't seen for almost four years), seeing a bit of Scotland together and visiting A LOT of coffee shops :) The winter months can seem long and dark here in Scotland, it was nice to have the treat of a good friend in the midst of it! I hope you're enjoying February as well! BLESSINGS to you!

A few days in France...

Well, after making it through the dreary month of January, I had the chance to get away to France, for the CRM International Staff Women's retreat. I was able to spend Feb 1-5 in beautiful Peillonex, France (just 30 minutes from Geneva, Switzerland) with some amazing women of God. I wasn't sure what to expect going into the conference, to be honest I was a bit anxious about just how "deep" it would go, and what God might do there. It definately turned out to be a setting where there was no hiding from God or what He's been trying to get at in my life. He used these wonderful fellow sisters, fellow servants of Christ, to both encourage and challenge me in a profound way. Words cannot do justice to what I experienced there, all I can really say is that God showed up, and moved in a powerful way, and I believe many of us left the conference forever changed.

Impact!

This is Sarah, one of our staff, serving food at a thanksgiving meal we hosted at the Glasgow City Mission. This event was attended by roughly 80 or 90 of our community friends! This was a shock to us all, until then we had no idea how large the impact of NieuCommunities has been in Glasgow. Since then we have just continued to see God's favor resting on our work. Please continue your prayers and support of this work here - God is up to something good!