Liverpool church celebrates 250th birthday

A time-lapse video by Ruth Bayes Videography shows St James in the City’s 250th birthday celebration evening held earlier this year.

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00:30I would say that God did a few miracles and it's like he did most of them real early on.

00:38As if to say, I know lots of people think that you're bonkers and it's a really difficult gig,

00:42but I'm just going to give you one or two, like here's one I did earlier, just to keep you going.

00:47I marvel at the way God weaves things through our lives and it's just wonderful to be here and to see all of you young people.

00:58That's what St James does. You come along and you get involved from day one.

01:02People are just brought in and sent out again.

01:06It's just wonderful to see students who have made lifelong friendships here.

01:30And you can see looking around the tables, they are friends for life.

01:33This place was an amazing, amazing location for seeing salvation, but also changing the culture in the city.

01:41Everything that was happening here was just radiating out.

01:44Stepping out of my comfort zone, it was really a time where I just had to learn to trust and lean on God.

02:00Yeah, we just want to make this church a place where we can be creative and worship God through our creativities.

02:19We've really explored faith with these young people in loads of different ways and we're really missional in what we do

02:26and we want to see them come into church and find their place in community.

02:31This is a place where people intentionally want to see you grow and want the best for you.

02:37I think you see that amongst the students, they all want the best for each other,

02:40they all want to do life for each other and journey alongside.

02:43But it's a real gift of just collaboration and God has been so faithful and that's the story that we've heard tonight, right?

02:50Tonight we've been reminded what God can do and that he is faithful.

03:17And we're called now to trust and lean on him as we look ahead.

03:25Sometimes faith feels shaky and wobbly and we know as a church there's some big challenges ahead but God will do it.