New church plantings

Yesterday was a most wonderful Sunday as we celebrated the planting of two new churches or rather released two flocks to concentrate their efforts to reach their local communities with the good news of the Kingdom of God.
In the morning we went to Frekhaug in Nord-Hordland celebrate a new start for the covenant community I that area. About one hundred people from all over were gathered together to participate in this event. The service went along the �normal� way of singing, preaching and praying but was followed by a steady flow of prophetic utterances at the end as elders were ordained and given new anointing to function in a greater capacity than before. All people present were excited by what took place and were filled with joyful expectancy to what the Lord will do their community.
In the afternoon we went to Sotra to celebrate another new start for the covenant community in Sotra and �ygarden. They have a different story. Here two separate flocks are becoming one united flock. A joining was taking place between an already establish church and several cell-groups that used to be part of the big church in the city of Bergen twenty minutes away. But for all of them they were being planted in new soil for greater fruitfulness. About one hundred and sixty people were gathered together to joyfully celebrate the joining and knitting together to be able to reach all the small communities in the many islands they represented. The format of the meeting was very much the same as the service in the morning but with even more excitement and prophetic unction.
What a privilege to be part of an apostolic and prophetic company seeing communities of the Kingdom of God being born and fostered to fruit yielding maturity. What a strength it is to work together in a covenant relationship not being alone anymore! What a blessing to be harnessed and yoked to other men and women, different from me, with the same vision and zeal of the Lord to see the purpose of God achieved in this world!