heart2bless

Prayer Weekends

heart2bless is a mission-minded, residential prayer weekend hosted at Bethanie, our missional training centre in Normandy, France. Heart2bless participants are welcomed into community life at Bethanie and invited to enter into a daily rhythm of prayer, learning and shared meals.

Each heart2bless prayer weekend explores a seasonal theme using creative prayer and worship, Bible teaching, discussion groups and local visits. There is plenty of space for personal reflection and time to chat over coffee and around the dinner table.

Upcoming heart2bless dates

“heart2bless gives you time to hear the heartbeat of God and allows you to align yourself to His rhythm”

“Heart2bless is always a great time – fun, encouraging and challenging and above all, inspiring!”

What does it actually look like?

A typical heart2bless prayer weekend begins on Friday evening with a hearty home-cooked meal followed by evening prayers and a night cap before bed.

Saturday breakfast is followed by morning prayers, worship and two coffee infused learning sessions all before lunch. There is normally an offsite visit in the afternoon before returning to Bethanie for afternoon tea, learning session three, dinner and compline.

Sunday morning is usually more laid back with a later breakfast, morning prayers and a final learning session before lunch.

“heart2bless was a weekend of encouragement, inspiration and connection; discovering and developing God’s heart for Europe”

“Refreshing, basked in God’s presence! Loved my short but sweet stay! Also received answer to very specific prayer prayed at one of the prayer installations.”

How is heart2bless mission minded?

We believe the mission of God is, at heart, a work of transformation. That which God does in me he wants to do in the wider world. There is a qualitative link between the inner transformation I experience in Christ and the outward transformation he will bring to whole communities.

Those called to inward transformation are turned outward to their neighbour in loving service. Those receiving forgiveness are empowered to forgive. Those transformed by grace become the very essence of grace to others. The people of God are called not only to receive healing but to be a source of healing in their world; not only to know reconciliation but to bring reconciliation; not only to be blessed but to carry blessing outward.

Changed people change people, and the people they change change the world.

“Mind bending, vision lengthening, spirit uplifting, friendship renewing, time expanding, relationship building, belly filling, heart warming – simply breath taking!”

For more information, contact gemma@blessnet.eu or download and fill in a heart2bless form