Church from Scratch video shot on a phone at the the cluster of Monday groups this week.

Tall Skinny Kiwi lists these common themes which he's seen in rapidly growing Jesus movements among young people in south Asia. We've simplified them in the folloing list or read the full article on his blog here

Thirteen Practices for vibrant Jesus Movements

1. Bible study - simple and regular discipleship by obedience to the Bible.
   1. What does it say?
   2. What does it say to me?
   3. What am going to do about it?
       
2. Open houses - hospitable to visitors who came day or night.
    
3. Fringe focus - primarily people joined from the edges of society.
    
4. Simple habits - nothing took a lot of skill.
    
5. Good business products! - they lived from little businesses they ran together.
    
6. Rehabilitation - a building for rehabilitation of drug addicts, open to all, a place for refreshment.
    
7. Native flavour - not importing many songs from outside.
    
8. Daily rhythms - weekly services was not enough - some met daily for short times.
    
9. Not outreach TO but outreach WITH others - people of other faiths would hep them with their work with the poor.
    
10. Something for the whole family - outreach often started with a young person and reached the family by visiting.
     
11. Prayer - a normal part of ALL they did, many physical healings, supernatural was accepted as normal.
     
12. Grace - people failed and messed up but were relaunched again as disciples.
     
13. Changing lives - focus was intentionally on this and not growing in size which happened rapidly.

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A song inviting us to follow the real Jesus

It's a video by the Lost Dogs and it beautifully sums up our desire to be an inclusive church community.

Author unknown

This God...  who watches worlds...sees my heart...

Cardboard testimonies video to inspire

A Bible story of Jesus being interrupted by a desperate women with a poem written to tell the same story as well.

We've created this audio resource to help you pray for Southend against a local soundscape.

In the Bible, Revelation 21 paints a picture of the world healed by Jesus. A time will come when Jesus is fully present to his Southend people and his people are fully present to Jesus. We have written versions about Southend as it will be.

A poem by our Jaimes Higginson:

My Lord, my God, he loves me,
He tests me when I need it.
I am merely human,
And have made at least a dozen mistakes.
And that’s just every day.

As part of the web content gathering day in August 2009 Hannah wrote and recorded a poem.

She writes, "Heh my name is Hana. I have been involved with Church from Scratch since January 2009. I tend to just sit down at night and just write poems about my faith and other things."

Listen to Hana's Poem below.