Andy Hawthorne OBE

Founder and Chief Executive @MessageTrust

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@CedarwoodFest @MessageTrust @YWAMEngland @compassionuk @DavidSDownes Loved being part of the festival. What a precious time it was 🙌

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What a weekend! On Friday I got to play a small part with Anthony Delaney at Festival of Life and then at The Launch leaders conference on Saturday. Then on Sunday I headed to speak at Christ Church Barnet. All so different but Jesus was doing his stuff at all these places.

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This may not look very amazing but it is of my zoom call today with beautiful people from four continents and seven different nations who are all leading Message Trust charities around the world and the testimonies of transformation were next level - who would have thought?!

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Love is a verb, this is exactly what I challenged The Message team with this morning as we continued journeying through Romans 12 and looked at the 10 characteristics of love Paul sets out there. Want to know more? You can watch it for yourself at https://t.co/G7b4GO3ttb

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Off to Germany with my mate Gary Smith for a weekend of preaching and planning growth for Message Germany.

[Andy Hawthorne OBE @andyhmessage]

Happy 10th Birthday to @message_sa! What an incredible 10 years of seeing God transform lives in prisons, communities, schools and through enterprise. Thank you Jesus 🙌

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Looking forward to heading to the North East this weekend and getting to spend time with our team there, whilst also speaking at The Filling Station in York tomorrow. Then excited to head to Oxford Road Baptist on Sunday ahead of us working together to open a new grocery soon

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Loved getting to share my thoughts on Romans 10 and what God's been laying on my heart for 2024 with The Message team this morning. Fancy a listen? You can watch it online now at https://t.co/HZXk6edNFF. I hope you're as excited about what God's going to do this year as I am.

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Just 2 days to go until Greater Manchester Prayer. Do join us on Wednesday night as we come together as one church to pray for our city, nation and world. It's all happening at Audacious Church from 7:30pm - 9:30pm.

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What a special time it’s been. I got to preach in the final three churches of my Africa trip in Kampala today. Heading home early tomorrow full of expectancy for all God will use The Message Trust for in this next season across this amazing continent that needs to hear about Him.

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Have you got 30 seconds to make a big difference? Could you nominate The Message Trust for the Youth Movement for Good award? They’re giving away £5,000 to 10 charities. Votes need to be in before midnight tomorrow. Thank you.
https://t.co/EC5sCgRhgO

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Precious time preaching twice at The Barn Church in Johannesburg this morning, and ready to do it all again at 5pm tonight.

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Had a really special time at Christ Church Kenilworth yesterday, with lots of beautiful responses to the Gospel. I particularly loved being interviewed with Michele in the evening. It made me think afresh how good God has been to us.

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Just been met at Cape Town Airport by the legendary Tim Tucker. Got a busy 2 weeks in Cape Town, Johannesburg & Kampala getting to preach 8 times, hold board meetings, celebrate our 2023 South African Urban Heroes & much more. Exciting times for The Message across Africa!

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What a special couple of days as we gathered together The Message teams from across the UK, Germany, South Africa, Canada, Netherlands to pray and worship. I’m blown away by the countless stories of what God’s doing and lives he’s transforming. Excited for the next season.

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What a time we had in Brazil. I was privileged to get to speak in lots of churches, and saw salvation and Christians getting fired up. Michele and I met so many great people doing heroic work. The new Message Brazil really is experiencing an amazing season of open doors-love it!

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What a beautiful time we’ve had in Kefalonia celebrating 60 years of Michele being on this planet and 40 of them being married to me! Next stop Brazil 🇧🇷

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What a beautiful morning at Message Community Church. So good to see several first time commitments and all the more special because it was a Hawthorne double act.

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As the summer holidays start we’ve invited the local community to a free family fun day here at The @MessageTrust HQ and it's rammed. So good to see everyone enjoying the bouncy castles, penalty shootout and everything that's happening in the rarely seen Manchester sun!

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I love what God’s doing through Message Community Church. Hear how lives are being transformed for yourself by tuning into @BBCRadio4 at 8:10am tomorrow as they broadcast from one of our services or catch up later on on iPlayer.