This week's prayer focus areas

Prayer for Le Pas Opton

• It's cold and quiet and so not an easy place to work right now. Pray for motivation, productivity and a new sense of teamwork in 2010.

Prayer for Spring Harevst Holidays

• January is a key month for bookings. Please pray that we'll continue the encouraging trend of growth compared to last year, that Customer Service will give great service and that Andy's marketing efforts will be successful.

Prayer for this year's programme

• We're sorting out worship leaders and pastoral team so pray that we invite the right people who will fit in well and serve our guests in the best possible way.

» See our report on the prayer weekend whcih took place at LPO last December

How you can help Spring Harvest Holidays

The best people to share with others the unique Le Pas Opton experience, are people who’ve been here themselves. Over the years we’ve worked with many fantastic people who’ve committed time and much more to doing just this.  This began informally with guests simply telling their friends and over time we have developed a resource programme to support and thank those who feel that spreading the word about a Spring Harvest Holiday is important to them.

Relationships are at the heart of Spring Harvest Holidays. Many friendships have been made here, both on holiday or indeed as part of the work that we do.
 

Become and Ambassador

Our Ambassadors are our best evangelists. What motivates our Ambassadors is the passion that they have for holidays at LPO, because of the holiday experiences they've had there. Sharing what a holiday at Le Pas Opton is all about isn't a sale, its a story.

Ambassadors may organise a local meeting to promote Spring Harvest Holidays, distribute literature and information, man an exhibition stand or help to organise a group visit to Le Pas Opton.

We’re looking for people to join this team who are just as passionate and enthusiastic about a holiday at LPO as we are. If you feel this is you and want to become an Ambassador, please email  Jim Long who will give you some more information about the programme and selection.

jim.long@springharvestholidays.com

Prayer weekend report Dec 12 and 13 2009

First of all thank you to the friends of LPO across the UK and France who have joined us in prayer this weekend.

Steve May-Miller travelled from the UK with work colleague Andrew Paviour and long time LPO volunteer and team member Jen Rumsey, meeting up at LPO with Chris and Laura. Saturday afternoon saw two sessions of prayer, praise and spiritual warfare around the site. We also joined local English and French speaking Christians in St Gilles for a bilingual service of Christmas carols and readings. It was great to see Elisabeth, one of our reception team from 2007, playing the keyboard for this gathering, which was followed by du vin and des mince pies. Mince pies are an unknown commodity in France, it seems.

That evening we shared a meal in La Moisson with guests at Roger and Beri Fray's Joie de Vie Advent retreat, some of whom joined our prayer sessions throughout the weekend. Sunday morning started with a very cold prayer walk to all corners of the site after which we defrosted ourselves with the retreat guests in Le Printemps. There followed a wonderful worship session together and a chance to debrief about the prayer before lunch.

On Sunday afternoon we set out one more time to hit the areas we had missed. This weekend we have prayed in the office, reception, swimming pool area, main entrance, pool office, Sticky Fingers area, bar area, workshop, accommodation, sani jaune, play areas, all-weather sports, by the river, marquee and staff village. We've also prayed for guests, team (past and future), local contacts, all individual age groups and more.

We have a sense that we've dealt with strongholds and swept the place clean, ready for a fresh start (aided by a prayer broom!). The guiding verses from Ephesians 6 and about binding on earth and in heaven were relevant. We've also heard words about building good walls, tearing down bad ones, about angels guarding the entrance, about a challenge to ask our 2010 volunteers to pray individually for every single emplacement and more.

If you want to stay in touch with prayer needs and answers to prayer, watch the website as we'll be doing weekly updates from now on. And if you would like to join our 2010 volunteer work and prayer teams, give us a call or drop an email to the office.