On Wednesday 4th July during the Celebrate service, Roland Worton - our guest worship leader from the Iranian Christian Fellowship, Chiswick and Marsham Street, Westminster Prayer School (he has been involved with us in Medway since November 1997) brought the following " word " for us to weigh. A number of folk in the meeting that day were challenged by these words and we reproduce the full text below. Those connected to Celebrate have been looking at this and praying into the issues raised here-we welcome your prayerful reflection:-

1) " Sensed that there needed to be a call back to the original vision for Celebrate and almost a ‘re-launch’ as it was to be a hub of activity that other branches and initiatives were to spring from. There had been a move to stunt and confine and it was crucial that it was allowed to become all that God had intended. Although Celebrate had gone through a season of tiredness/bareness, intercessors had faithfully guarded the camp as the ‘cinders’ of the old fire were being cleared and wood gathered and set in place for the fresh fire. Many people had moved into an ‘assessment stance’ of Celebrate wandering if it was going to last and a ‘boredom mentality’ had set in and almost a questioning of ‘well what’s the next big thing going to be?’ However, felt that things were now beginning to climb again and that there was a marking going on in the Spirit of those that had been faithful to stand for the greater good of the area during this difficult time and they would begin to see fruit.

2) Sensed that Celebrate was to see Him welcomed into the towns each week and was not called only to be a ‘devotional’ gathering place for believers. Saw that it was crucial that the priestly (flow from earth to heaven) AND the prophetic were allowed to flow together at Celebrate. As long as people viewed it only as a nice place to go and have a worship time they would miss a significant element of the corporate call and anointing where things are changed in the spiritual and He is welcomed and allowed to speak. The intercessory prayer meeting before hand is ‘engaging’ but the rhema and focus upon the geographic area that comes out of it is not being fed into the meeting and so for the most part weekly Celebrate stays in the ‘devotional.’ This is OK some of the time but there was a greater function for it as an engine room/hub that would see the inter-denominational evangelistic community thrusts covered and working together and be a safe house for the lost as they came in - A ‘Geographic / Greater good of the many’ FOCUS. It is tough because there aren’t many role-models of inter-denominational community works functioning that cause change to come to a geographic area. Sensed you will have to continually fight personal kingdom building amongst certain churches that will not participate, small mindedness that would seek to confine and down-size the vision amongst others, unbelief, indifference and lethargy !!

3) God said that He was releasing fires all over the UK and that Medway was one place where He was setting His fire. That he had already given you the strategy for the towns - reminded of Ed Silvoso and that it doesn’t get much better than that. It was time for the elders of the towns to move in a greater clarity and cohesion of prophetic vision and that the Body of Christ was to move forward together with more cohesion as a ‘united front’. There had been some unity but there was more. To see the mix and weight of each arm - Youth, Intercession, Praise and Worship, Community Evangelism functioning correctly.

4) Sensed that the evangelistic arm of Churches Together / Celebrate had not been realised fully and saw that the Youth of Medway were being initiated into Kingdom tasks at this time. That they were to be more actively involved in Celebrate and that many evangelistic - community thrusts were to be birthed. Saw young ‘dreamers’ all over the area being released to dream evangelistic strategies that would see the church without walls set in motion. There was to be ‘24-7’ prayer initiative active and alive amongst the youth in the Medway Towns. "