SNAC - SUNDAY NIGHT AT CAPERS

SNAC - SUNDAY NIGHT AT CAPERS

Last week’s SNAC was tremendous. We had about fifty young people from the local community come to fellowship with us, worship with us and learn from the Word through a dynamic presentation that our students put together to touch the heart of this generation. Fantastic! It was an amazing week to choose to do a feature for the i58 blog. Let me tell you about it!

We usually start the night with worship, have the student presentation and then end with more worship before ‘hang out’ time over a hot drink and some specially made cookies! But last week was completely different. The Conference Hall was set up as a coffee shop, so lots of ‘comfy’ chairs and tables with candles so the atmosphere was quite intimate. There was a coffee bar and food was placed around the hall – everyone got into the relaxed mood of the evening.

Our Master of Ceremonies, Thane from Canada introduced the night, as he usually does, and gave us an update on the week. The mission trip to Hong Kong was announced along with some fund-raising events and then we were straight into it. But instead of having communal worship, we had our talented musicians sing and play to us while we chatted to each other enthusiastically even if not too quietly! The wall lights and only added to that feeling of intimacy and we all just enjoyed lots of catch up time while listening to the beautiful singing.

Then, after about ten minutes the first of the ‘dramas’ were presented by the SNAC team. There was ‘grandpa’ sitting with his grandson, (Thane back again), reminiscing about his time at Capernwray while his grandson asked him the tough questions of how our faith is made relevant today. To help the audience ‘get it’ there followed a drama that clearly made the point – we were so built up! Then there was more music, then more dramas and so the evening went on. The last set of songs was sung by our very own Alyssa with Jordan from the local community. Together they brought us into the very presence of God – they were simply sensational. Their final song, Lead me to the cross, which was originally sung by Tim Hughes and Brooke Fraser, was so God breathed it literally took our breath away!

What an evening! When speaking to everyone afterwards they just loved the relaxed atmosphere and enjoyed really connecting with so many different people. Jordan Worner, who is in the process of recording his own CD, told me that he asked Alyssa to join him to record a song on his new album AND she said, ‘Yes.’ I’ll keep you posted as to when the CDs are available.

Also, this week we had Quite Day at Capernwray which meant that all the students could just spend the day in the Word. For some this is a little daunting, but once the day got underway they really meet with the living God. In the evening there were lots of testimonies of how personally God had met with them. This is always a highlight for the staff – to see just how the students are deepening their relationship with God – AWESOME.

Next week I’ll tell you a little more about the mission trip to Hong Kong and let you know how the Travel Weekend went, when all our students went loose in Sydney!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK and God bless,

WOODSEY