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I finally feel coherant enough to do a post on Letton Hall and in many ways doing this post I feel a bit like Paul (the bible guy) writing one of his letters because there’s lots of great stuff to share!
For those that don’t know Letton Hall is a Christian Conferance centre just outside of Dereham, previously it was a stately home and it can be rented by all sorts of groups…The CROPS Trust from Peterborough is just one of them and every February and October half term CROPS take a group of young people from churches all over Peterborough to Letton.
This half term CROPS also hired dophin court at Letton Hall so we took around 12 leaders (of which I was one) and 80ish young people aged between 11 and 18.
Our guest speaker for the week was none other than director of Norwich Youth For Christ Mark Tuma who will always be remembered by myself for playing ‘Rage Against the Machine’ at a Fridays event a few years back!
During the theme ‘Heroes’ Mark explored the characters of Gideon, Rahab, Hannah and John the Baptist in 4 brilliant talks which were insightful, interesting, funny (in places) and challenging.
I was also privilaged to lead worship on the first night with some very talented musicians and 80 young people with hearts ready to worship God which was amazing, I only wish people in churches would have the passion for worship that young people have…in fact I wish they had the passion for Jesus young people have!
On the second night around 10 (possibly more) made committments to Christ for the first time which was so exciting to just be there and witness the joy in the room as those young people made their way to the front to a cheer of celebration from everyone in that room.
So that’s my Letton post, I have returned from Letton feeling physically drained but spiritually refreshed, I feel challenged by Mark’s talks and feel like I’ve returned having really met with God! I feel lucky to have been part of the event hanging around with a great bunch of young people and leaders who are completely committed to young people.