Encounter God globally

SHARING Magazine is out today. Check it out for great stories and encouragements from around the world, as well as details of our new SOMA Schools - of Prayer, Prophecy, Spiritual Warfare and Leadership.

A great read… why not pour a cup of tea and enjoy what the Lord has been doing?

Jon Kissell joined the team to Sweden this November, and found that his heart-felt song Tears was a sweet release for leaders there.

A fruitful mission in Burundi has left the local Bishop asking for more… “how often can SOMA UK come to us, is three times a year possible?” Bishop Pontein is hungry to see the church in this young diocese living and growing in the power of the Spirit…

Mission teams can be exhausting, but Will Pearson Gee find that the tiredness from travel and spiritual exertion is a small price to pay for the fruit 

Such a. joy to join SOMA Kenya in an international mission to Mombasa. Lead by Will Pearson-Gee (Buckingham) and Andrew Allan Johns (SOMA New Zealand) alongside Tom Otieno (SOMA Kenya), a tremendous learning and missional moment for all involved.

As we launch our 4th META Youth cohort in the UK, our trustees also met, with news of new recruits to the governance team and NLT and vacancies still to fill… could it be you?

After seeing their vicar come alive on mission SOMA Parish team members are preparing for the trip of a lifetime as they head out on mission. They will join experts from Kenya and New Zealand as their Learning Cohort seeks to join in with all God is doing around the world and encounter God globally.

It was a joy to bring four sessions of deliverance ministry training, a youth talk and an evening talk to New Wine Sligo this summer. Deliverance ministry training seems to be a major need in the contemporary church with requests coming in all the time. Check out more here

So grateful to all the Lord is doing this summer through an array of festivals. SOMA visited three of them and gave and received great blessings along the way.

Young people get in touch with an ancient legacy as the META Youth visit the cradle of christianity in Ireland and seek to serve the church there over the next 10 days

Tanzania team see prayer answers and breakthroughs…

Some of the Liwolo team reflect on their preparations and experiences in South Sudan as they begin their journey home.

Faith is rising in Liwolo and there is inspiration here aplenty to set hearts ablaze around the world. We face light and momentary troubles, they have endured fire and suffering. Much to learn from our friends in South Sudan.

Testimonies come flooding in of all God has been doing at the Liwolo mission.

Huge encouragements from Liwolo as a SOMA UK team join Bishop Joseph Aba and Bishop Amosa Data for training events for clergy and youth leaders in a diocese praying for revival.

Prayer breakthroughs are common at SOMA… join the Community of Prayer to get regular faith-stretching, faith-boosting answers to prayer… two keys ones have just come through for SOMA.

The SOMA trustees were in fine form at Stanton House, Oxford as the strategy for 2030 was wholeheartedly approved and much joy and fellowship was had along the way.

Bringing out the Big Guns at our recent SOMA retreat, we invited Denis Adide, a London based vicar born in Uganda whose family had to flee to Kenya when he was an infant, and then moved to London on his 14th birthday, to reflect on how he has experienced our SOMA mission and were blown away by his poetic response.

Barney de Berry speaks to the SOMA team about his call, our history and our shared future direction. There is an exciting call emerging around England… and this one comes from Canterbury - a city often considered to have housed the mother church of the Anglican Communion. What might the Lord be doing now?

Helen Collins, pictured with South Sudanese team member Martha Adut, is still reflecting on her mission experience in South Sudan and what the experiences we had and the world views of team members from South Sudan, Kenya, Germany and England might say to the Theological world she works in.

SOMA UK was recently privileged to train a group of young adults heading to Kenya.

SOMA is involved right around the world, as this coming together of an Indian, New Zealander, Canadian and a Texan in the Arctic Circle shows….

Read more on Richard’s visit to Cornwall last week

Video production under way for SOMA learning cohort videos, with contributions coming in from Africa, Asia, South and North America and the Middle-East.

We caught up with some SOMA members from Burundi at the recent Leadership Conference from Alpha in the Albert Hall.