1 Cor 13:7 (The Message) “Love… trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end”
Love…. trusts God always, always looks for the best
This year we have gone through a lot of exciting transitions. Yet, as always, the excitement about the new things that are coming is tinged with sadness at what is left behind.
To be sure that we were following where the Lord is leading has required us to keep placing our trust in the Lord and have faith that He is working in our waiting. Our longing to have our own premises has remained unchanged over these past 8 years because while daily we look for the best that Besom can be, we operate under constraints which inhibit so much that we would love to do. The team, van, equipment and goods are scattered across the Borough so we would like to bring everything under one roof in a home where we can gather, pray and build relationships with all those called to fulfil our vision ‘to enable Christians to give’.
Love… never looks back!
It became clear that registering as a charity was the next step in order to be ready to lease premises, so we began the process in January. To enable this, two of our founding core team members, Simon and Sherry, came off the core team in order to become trustees and in the Spring we became a fully-fledged charity. Then in July, Sue, another founding core team member, felt the Lord ask her to lay down Besom in order to step into new ministries with the lonely and dispossessed. Sue has overseen group projects and the Christmas hamper projects for 8 years and will be greatly missed. With her past experience as a social worker and a massively compassionate heart, she brought invaluable insight, wisdom and caring love to our team and all whom she worked with. She still loves Besom and will remain involved in other ways.
With three core team members stepping down, only Annie and Gareth were left. But recently the Lord has graciously brought us two additions: ones who have been time-giving on the van team and in projects for a while! Chris from EGBC and Richard from HTC are both stepping into new things by joining the Besom core team.
Please pray for them as they discern where their hearts lie in the many-varied tasks that members choose to undertake to operate the Besom.
Love…. always keeps going to the end!
At last, we can see that God is stirring up key individuals in churches in the Walton area to get involved for the first time with the Besom and it excites us to see how these fledgling relationships will prosper under the guidance of his Holy Spirit. We have been praying for links into Walton since our inception in 2012, so this development has been a long time in coming! Sometimes waiting for it has been very disheartening, but we have persevered in prayer because many of our recipients live in this area of the borough and we have longed for the churches in closest proximity to them to be able to practically love their neighbours – literally those living only metres from their doorsteps. It is the encouragement in seeing that God has been working in our waiting, that gives us hope to keep praying and waiting for our premises, our home. Please keep praying along with us for that provision.