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Novo UK in action.
Bringing God’s Kingdom to Earth.
A Deeper Hospitality
This is the deepest, truest form of hospitality: using our homes as places where the transformative power of the gospel meets our brokenness and we together move towards Christ.
God Dwells with His People
The world’s people are rapidly moving to cities, so much so that studies predict that 3 billion will be city-dwellers by 2050. A United Nations projection suggests that global population growth between now and 2030 will be seen exclusively in urban areas, mostly in Africa and Asia.
So if we want as many people as possible to hear the good news about Jesus, cities are a great place to set up shop.
More Than Just ‘Prophet-Isa’
Throughout the day, I was humbled to experience people stopping and listening, sharing and discussing, and even letting me bless them in prayer.
But I will never forget the one encounter I had with Mohammed, a Muslim who was walking home after studying for the day. He said, “I have always found the subject of Jesus interesting . . . because we see him as a prophet.”
The Prophetic and Gospel Movements
Our prophetic prayer teams (known as Prime) decided to focus on two cities, Berlin and Glasgow. Folks from Novo UK, Novo US, as well as locals from each city, gathered over Zoom to seek God. For sixty days the two teams met regularly and asked, “God, what are you up to here? Will you show us and tell us what your plans and purposes are so that we can partner with you?”
And God spoke.
Discovering Jesus on the Streets of London
It started with the usual lack-lustre input of “I liked the sunshine today” and “I liked the food tonight”. That was until a Latvian man called Alec* spoke. He looked me straight in the eye and, in his limited English, said…
Emily’s Life Transformed by Jesus
When I had moved to Possilpark—a community in the North of Glasgow—and joined the InnerCHANGE team, I longed for those on the margins of society to be transformed by the good news of Jesus.