Kingdom People

In January, rather than planning our own separate winter retreats, the GTA regional staff team and students from various campuses got together for three consecutive weeks of teaching and training. We called these events, Kingdom People, as we wanted to follow up on some of the teaching from the winter conference, Kingdom Calling.

We wanted to call the students towards living a life of the Kingdom, by offering stories and teachings about right relationship with God, others, and themselves. Each week, different staff amongst the team lead us through scripture study and interactive application. For more stories and photos of the events, click here.

My involvement with the events varied each week. On the first week, I lead the students through an interactive sensory experience; depicting the garden and the fall in Genesis. I also lead the students in an activity where they were to create a groundling, and continue to interact with their creation throughout the course of the evening. The second week, I helped create personalised invitations for the students, as part of their application of the teaching and invitations they had received throughout the course of the evening. The final week, our household created a meal as part of the potluck dinner served that evening.

I really enjoyed these events and interacting with students from various different campuses. It was exciting to meet them and see how they were processing through the teachings and invitations extended throughout the weeks of teaching. It was also exciting to see the students interact with one another and begin to dream up ways to continue relationship and support one another’s ministries!

As the weeks and months went by, these events served as a marker for many students of significant change and the beginnings of inter-campus relationships and partnerships.