Realising the Big G is everywhere.

Do you ever feel like you have found something perfect? Somewhere perfect, even.

Somewhere where you fit in. Somewhere where people listen to your view. Somewhere where you make friends for life within just a few months. Somewhere you couldn’t imagine leaving.

This was Kingsgate for me. To date it must be my favourite church I have ever stepped into. It is fun. It is lively. It is ambitious. Three things you want to see in a church.

This is not to say that I have not been blessed with a lot of amazing churches. St Marys in Leamington was the church I was born into. It was an incredible place to spend my six youngest years. I then moved to St Marks which I finally felt part of when I reached thirteen. It was somewhere to escape to and somewhere which allowed me to push the boundaries of my faith. When I moved to Cambridge, HT became the church I could most call home. Their womens afternoons were amazing. The student workers were incredible, not to mention the students. The students were there for me when during second year life got really tough. They were there so much that it really touched me.

But it was only when I got to Kingsgate I felt like I had found home. Partly I think it was because it was so much smaller. It was easy to get stuck in. It was easy to do things. It was easy to dream. But most of all I think it was because God was so alive. People spoke in tongues, people were healed, people had prophecies. These were things which hadn’t seemed possible before but at Kingsgate they were open to all.

The point of this column is not I LOVE KINGSGATE, but how we can start to rely on a certain place. I had started to rely on Kingsgate to make me feel alive. You couldn’t help but want more. You couldn’t help but be inspired.

It was two weeks ago that I realised this. I was at a planning meeting for Falcon camp and I could just feel God there. It was like he was watching over us and saying YEHHHHH BUDDY. That night I was at St Marks and suddenly thought YES. The feeling was back.

While we can feel like we can only get this incredible feeling from being with a certain group of people, a certain place – that isn’t true. Yes people can inspire you, people can challenge you, but that feeling – or that power – that is God.

God is everywhere and if like me you are currently moving home or moving town – I think that is something very important to hold on to.

So to all the people I have come across over the years – at Kingsgate, at HT, at St Marys, at St Marks – THANK YOU AND I LOVE YOU ALL. Not as much as the Big G but you know what I mean ;)