This page will give details of how Post the Host is developing
SEPTEMBER: People are ordering the Body and Blood of Christ to sustain them through their busy schedules. Some are not able to attend church due to shift patterns or through circumstantial pressures; the very people and situations that require the church to resource them in a flexible and accessible manner.
JULY/AUGUST: An order from the United States for a Christian who wishes to follow the ancient practice of carrying a Host with him throughout the day. Other orders for those who find solace and inspiration from receiving the Host as part of their daily devotion. Another who wants to cherish just a single Host knowing the living Jesus is close by.
JULY: Consecrated Hosts have continued to be ordered bringing the living Christ into homes and families across Europe. The Post the Host videos also stimulate thought and debate and challenge people's prejudices and assumptions.
MAY: Consecrated Hosts have been sent out across the world, including Germany and New Zealand. Hosts have been used in street outreach work.
APRIL: RECENT MESSAGE: I am excited to hear news of the success of your venture "PTH".
You continue to inspire me and your are in my prayers this day as I minister amongst the little ones here at a Children's Hospital in the USA.
MARCH 9TH: The first 8 consecrated hosts were posted to unsolicited members of the public. This new initiative is an expression of God's unconditional love and the desire to spread the Good News of God's love.
The covering letter invites them to receive and to get in touch if they wish to explore their relationship with God further.
Please pray that those who receive the consecrated host will be blessed.
March 1st 2010: A film crew from Italy has made a documentary about PTH, because of the interest sparked by the international media coverage.
Two Roman Catholic priests have visited the PTH base in London, one from Italy and the other from England. They expressed their support for PTH and their belief in what we were doing.
We have received further reports of blessing on reception of the hosts.
We are praying about sending the consecrated hosts out to people who haven't requested them in an evangelistic hope that contact with Jesus will transform their lives.
It may be that God is calling you to help us in this mission. Please get in touch.
September 27th 2009: Encouraging email just received - 'Post the Host is one of the best things that happened in my spiritual life in some time now. I have a more personal relationship with Christ now, and I really can feel His presence in my house.'
September 14th: PTH is bringing Jesus close to people. recent orders have included 300 consecrated hosts and wine for a student in Croatia who wishes to receive each day of his studies this coming academic year.
August 24th: Orders have been steadily received over the last few weeks including orders for consecrated wine, and one for non alchoholic. International interest has also been maintained with orders from oversees and international media interest. An Italian order for 100 Hosts was received recently for a person whose elderly parents could not attend Mass anymore and wished to receive at home.
July 25th: The first order was received for consecrated wine as well as the consecrated host.
July 19th: Another person touched by the Holy Spirit re Post the Host.
I have been watching the developments of post the host with interest. At first I was unsure about the concept but continued to pray about it and discuss it with a variety of people. Having communion over the internet is certainly a radical move especially in so many different styles. I have also read the comments from 'ship of fools' and the press as well as the comments posted on post the host website. The last video I watched where you appealed to clergy and Christians to have a different approach struck a chord and I continued to pray and ask God if there was anything I could do to contribute or whether I should just continue to observe.
Last Sunday we unexpectedly had an 11year old girl stay with us for a weekend of respite care. She came to church with us and I asked her if she wanted to come to the altar for a blessing after explaining what this meant she said she did. As she knelt beside me for communion she raised her hands to receive the host as I had done and I put her hands to her side as she had not been baptised or confirmed. The vicar, a retired gentleman, gave me the host, and took the girl's arms from her side and gave her the host! I was gobsmacked and he smiled down at me and said to both of us, 'It is okay. God knows.' What a wally I had been! There I am preaching inclusivity and then almost stopping a child from receiving Christ. So for me that was a clear step of learning and an answer to the questions I had been asking God about post the host. Every one is welcome to His table and I could either invite people or try to prevent them.
July 13th: A very moving experience from one who has received the Hosts.
As I told you in my previous mail I had to meditate a considerable time before asking you. But then I received the bible verse Proverbs 30: 25 in my heart. When I spoke to Jesus about my postbox and that a possible fall of the parcel in my corridor seemed to me to be a dishonour for Him that was too great to bear, I heard the majestic and yet so warm voice in my heart: Why do you think that I have made Me that small? The day before the parcels came, I reveived Proverbs 31: 14 which was very moving for me.
I met a gifted inventor from an East-European country when I was doing volunteer work among the homeless. He had fled from his country because his family wanted him in an psychiatric hospital for his mental symtoms. There was also political disagreement betweed him and his very influential family. He had a lot of official papers and parts of newspapers with him to prove his story.No country wanted to give him a right to stay and this is how he came fleeing to my house. We gave him shelter. Because of his growing psychosis I feared for his life. I decided to have a time of prayer together and give him a host. If I could not reach him from the outside, the Lord could from the inside. When he received the host he said after some time: "This must be a most holy thing. He stopped my (psychotic) mind. It is calm in my mind. No one has ever been able to do so."
June 30th: Nearly 1000 Hosts have now been distributed. Alleluia.
June 30th: Some applicants would also like to receive the consecrated wine, so this is now possible by contacting us via email.
June 29th: "I feel I should write to you (from Belgium). I am a Christian, and just read the article on the consecrated wafer and home made masses and find it a great idea. I want to congratulate you on this." Name and address suplied.
June 28th: An very positive article written by Mr David Brown from Holy Trinity Church of England church in Bishop's Stortford who ordered and received the Host. It appeared briefly on the church web site but was removed after pressure from others was brought to bear about it.
June 19th: Over 400 hosts have been sent out now around this country and to Germany and Canada. Some of the reasons for ordering having included preparation for surgery, the local church only providing Mass once a month, outreach ministry and to aid worship in a Chapel.
June 15th: The first orders have been sent out. Alleluia.
June 12th: Post the Host has been discussed on Damian Thompson's Daily Telegraph blog, on the Christian web site Ship of Fools,.
It has been covered in an article in the Guardian ( See Press Stories Page ), on LBC radio, on the World Service, on Italian television, On Premier Christian Radio.
There has been worldwide interest in the service and the utube videos have received thousands of hits.
