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Sam Metcalf, the president of CRM, was in Scotland last week and wrote a HUGE blog about our church.

Read what Sam had to say HERE.

or at

http://www.undertheiceberg.com/2007/06/27/rehope/

What do you do when God allows you to move into a church for a short amount of time with the possibility of staying only if God provides? You fix up and dedicate a prayer room.

Nate Messara designed and coordinated not only our prayer room but also an inaugural 72 hours of prayer. In the prayer room there are bibles, worship music, pictorial books… so many things, but my personal favourite is the “Prayer Graffiti” wall. Anyone can write up a prayer and leave it for others to see.

It has been great to see so many of our Church spend hours in prayer. May the God who has brought us this far, continue to speak clearly, and hear our petitions on behalf of our city, our nation, and our world.

For more on the Prayer Room see alsow:

Steven Irwins Blog

Nate Messara’s Blog (lots of pictures at the second half of this post.)

Walking down Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, looking to kill some time with my three kids, we walked past a videogame store with an eye-catching sign. The sign read, “Wii Sports Bowling Competition 10-2.” I knew I had no chance in such a competition but then I looked down at my 6-year-old son Ethan and wondered how he would do.

Walking in, we saw Mario greeting people, Nintendo Rep’s everywhere, and multiple TV’s playing ‘Wii Sports Bowling’. After watching some others try their hand at the competition, I asked if they would let Ethan have a go, I had my doubts they would let him play since the next youngest person was about 22. They said sure and told him if he got over 175 he would win some sort of gift, if he beat the high score he would win a prize and if he got the highest score of the weekend… a free Wii game.

Ethan stepped up and the Nintendo Rep asked if he knew how to play. Ethan nodded and they helped him strap on the Wiimote Controller. First throw…Strike! Second throw Split…Oh no. Unphased, Ethan unleashes 3 strikes in a row with a growing crowd watching this 6-year-old light things up. A few Spares followed by a Strike. At this point Ethan’s Score is poised to exceed the 175 mark and Nintendo Reps start converging. One of the Nintendo guys pulls out a video camera for Ethan’s last few throws… Finishing off with 5 strikes in a row found every Nintendo Rep as well as the store manager and most employees stunned in disbelief and chuckling.

Beating the current high score by 31 pins found Ethan walking out with this mega cool Wii Bag, a free DS Mug, a Wii notebook, 2 pens, his name entered into a Wii prize drawing, and the chance of winning a free game or two…

I’m all smiles. So proud of my ‘Wii’ Son.

• This weekend Keith, Lori and kids (Benjamin and Jessica) dropped into town to spend time with Kellie and I as well as with the entirety of the Re:Hope staff. As director of CRM’s International Church Planting division, most of our time was spent connecting and dreaming about rising up leaders and starting churches worldwide. On Monday night we had a dinner with as much of the Re:Hope staff as could make it, to hear more about Re:Hope’s potential to influence Scotland, the UK, Europe, and beyond.

• CHECK THIS OUT–>This weekend Re:Hope was involved in a huge local festival. Stephen wrote a fantastic blog about how it went . Read it HERE (www.irwinvision.com). In a more recent entry you can see my kids co-staring in a short film with their friends in the neighbourhood.

Lesley is in the middle.

• I have a high level of respect for the Spiritual maturity I see in Lesley. She has been apart of our church since just about the beginning. You can hear her story HERE. Or find it on the Re:Hope website www.rehope.co.uk

• Mark Jones, just wrote a brief blog entry about his thoughts on Re:Hope, you can check it out HERE.

• For all you “Google Earth-ians” I noticed that our Church building in Glasgow has a photo posted, it is of our church in winter. I believe the photo is entitled ‘lilybank School.’ “We’re on Google Earth!”

June is quite a full month for me. I will try and keep you posted as often as possible, but may not get quality time to blog much this month. Thank you for your patience.