News & Views

I am loving the DNA experience so far. God has been really faithful to me in Sheffield. He’s given me a fantastic and loving community of really inspiring people, and I get to be involved with a lot of stretching and exciting activities. One of my favourite parts of my DNA work so far has involved me working with a couple of charities that serve the poor and the marginalised, one mostly with recently rehoused people and the other with destitute asylum seekers. It’s a privilege and a heart-rending challenge to be face to face with real people in desperate need. I can feel Jesus changing me daily, as I meet Him in some of His best disguises.

 

When I started, I was really excited about discipleship. It is such an answer to prayer for me to have someone who knows about the things going on in my heart and mind. One of my biggest problems in life has been loneliness and isolation, coupled with a lot of insecurity and doubt, all of which God is gently evaporating! It’s a difficult journey to learn to be honest and vulnerable but I’ve found it to be really freeing and life-giving so far, even when I’m being challenged.

 

I have really benefited from the teaching on the training blocks. I love the variety of speakers and the real thought and passion that they put into their topics. Some of the stuff has absolutely blown my mind and changed what being a follower of Jesus means to me, and in a really practical way.

 

Of course it hasn’t all been easy, I have messed up a few times this year already and it is a lot of hard work. But through this I am learning more about how loved I am by God and the identity He freely gives me. When this captures my attention more than my failures I feel truly alive! As I grow up in Him I find myself wondering: what on earth is He going to do in the New Year? And I’m eager to press on and find out.