Hey! I really can’t believe how quickly time goes. A lot has happened since my last update, so hopefully I will try and summarise what’s been going on. I have now been at CAP just less than 3months and it is still as amazing as ever :)
So lets start where I left off last time…
Everyone who agreed to sign up to give £1 (or more) to CAP on a monthly basis, I’d just like to say a massive thank you… I won the competition, with 20 people signing up to give. This is seriously amazing. Every single pound that CAP gets, we promise that we will take it and use it to help the poor and needy in this nation. CAP is currently on the way of reaching 10,000 people giving on a monthly basis – how exciting is that – we hope to reach this target by the middle of next week! A client said:
“I felt shame and embarrassment, my health was suffering and I was spending sleepless nights worrying. I can now face the future with clarity and confidence – thanks to CAP, I am free to enjoy and celebrate Christmas with my family and friends and can look forward to a new year knowing I have their support until I am totally debt free.”
How cool is that?
OK, so what have I actually been doing since then. Well the majority of my work over the past month or so has been communicating with churches and supporters who are interested in running a CAP Sunday.
A CAP Sunday can be anything from just showing the short 7min DVD, or devoting the whole service to CAP. I will hopefully post the DVD here at some point so that you can see it, but currently it’s not available online, the following though is a clients testimony from the DVD:
So my job has been co-ordinating this over the past month or so. It has been really exciting to see that we have generated over 900 enquiries, with over 350 of these already confirmed to run a CAP Sunday. We set a recommended date of the 22nd November, but many churches are doing it with the next few weeks as well, it has been pretty cool to here the stories coming in from from last weekend.
A couple of weekends ago, CAP had a couple of big events down in London. We had a fundraising dinner at Lords Cricket ground. This was just outstanding, it was such a crazy day. We raised about £149,000 – it was so exciting to just see that money come in at the end of the evening. We had about 400 people at the event (I think, although I can’t totally remember). Here are a couple of photos from the event, it seriously looked amazing! (more can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiansagainstpoverty/)
OK since then, things at CAP have continued to be very exciting! More and more are becoming Christians, it does seem that we are having more than 1 salvation every day which just shows how amazing God is, and how he is using this work. I heard a story the other day where a client had been living in his car since his house had got repossessed, but since he started working with us, he has managed to get somewhere to live, food to eat and a budget that has allowed him to start saving for the future, but even more amazing he has come to know Jesus through this awful situation – Praise God!
I have recently been working with churches, building relationships with church leaders and organising talks at their churches from CAP’s great trained team of speakers.
Please keep praying for the work of CAP, for our clients, for the staff and for the vision we have for 2010! Also please pray for me that I continue to work to the best of my ability, that I have the right words when in conversation with churches and that I can continue to push myself.
Thanks for reading / watching this pretty big update, I hope it has inspired you / updated you about the kind of things I have been up to!
Dan x