Simply Gathering
We’ll be simply gathering at our home to watch some excellent Christian Movies / Documentaries over the coming months.
Just a simple time to be with brothers and sisters in Christ. Watch a film, chill out, enjoy each others company and just be together. If you’d like to come along then send us an email or if not just turn up.
Wednesday 23rd September – call in after 7pm and we’ll start at about 7.45
“The Life & Death of a Hippie Preacher”
Imagine if John the Baptist came of age during the 1960s counter culture, the charisma of Jim Morrison flowing from the mantle of an Old Testament prophet. Meet Lonnie Frisbee, a seeker turned Jesus freak evangelist who compelled thousands towards a profession of Christian faith. It was during a trip into a canyon that Frisbee claimed that God gave him a vision of his future as an influential evangelist to the hippie generation.
Four years later the vision would be fulfilled as pictures of Lonnie baptizing teenage converts were splashed across the pages of Time and Life magazines forever celebrating him as an icon of the Jesus movement.
Despite the stories of spiritual prowess that surround his life, his enduring struggles overwhelmed him. And even though he was the charismatic sparkplug igniting the rise of two worldwide denominations (Calvary Chapel & Vineyard), his name has all but been removed from their histories. Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher is the powerful story revealing the risk-taking nature of God, aligning himself with the most unlikely of characters as if to send out the message (yet again) that everyone is invited to participate.
This film / Documentary is a real challenge. Lonnie fell into sexual sin a number of times and as a result his name is all but removed from the histories of two of the biggest denominations. Why would God use a man like this? these are questions that we might ask but never really be able to fully answer. Here’s an opportunity to challenge our understanding of the working of God.
www.lonniefrisbee.com
Wednesday 7th October – call in after 7pm and we’ll start at about 7.45
“Faith Like Potatoes”
Based on the autobiography Faith Like Potatoes, this inspiring film tells the story of Angus Buchan, a South African farmer who suffers a series of seemingly insurmountable losses, but through an unlikely friendship with his Zulu farmhand and God making Himself known through miraculous events, discovers the key to healing and learning to accept others lies in his unwavering belief in Jesus Christ. “The Seed for a great miracle lies not in difficulty, but impossibility.” – Angus Buchan
www.faithlikepotatoes.com
Wednesday 21st October – call in after 7pm and we’ll start at about 7.45
“The Law Of Love”
An incredible story of how one woman brought healing and hope to drug addicts and the most desperate. Twenty-two-year old Jackie Pullinger graduated as an oboe student at the Royal College of Music in England and then boarded a slow boat to China, praying for guidance about where to get off. She ended up in Honk Kong. The Law of love is a documentary about Jackie’s work that started in the drug-driven vice and violence of the old Walled City in Honk Kong. She started a youth club for heroin addicts, gained the respect of the notorious Triad leaders who controlled the Walled City and instiuted the St. Stephen’s Society for curing drug addicts. Jackie’s courage and strength shine through in this candid documentary that shows humanity at the edge of existence and how tenderness and love, accompanied by the Gospel of Christ, can transform lives. Previously broadcast on British TV.
Wednesday 4th November 2009 – call in after 7pm and we’ll start at about 7.45
“The Keith Green Story”
On July 28, 1982, there was a small plane crash and Keith went home to be with Jesus. The crash also took the life of his three-year-old son Josiah, and his two year old daughter, Bethany. Melody was home with their one year old, Rebekah, and was also six weeks pregnant with their fourth child, Rachel. Keith was only 28 years old.
Although Keith is now with Jesus, his life and ministry is still making a huge impact around the world. His songs and passionate delivery are still changing lives. His writings are translated into many languages. Keith once said, “When I die I just want to be remembered as a Christian.” It’s safe to say he reached his goal, and perhaps, a bit more.
Keith Green was simply a man of conviction. When his convictions led him to an eternally worthy object in the person of Jesus he sold all that he had—ambitions, possessions, and dreams—to possess His love. In so doing he became a man of devotion. He also became a man remembered, and still missed, by millions around the world.
www.lastdaysministries.org/
We’ve got more movies to follow and all being a great excuse to “gather” in Love – greveson@blueyonder.co.uk
