As I mentioned previously, we each brought about 30kg of luggage with us! Emirates is very generous in it's baggage allowance, and so we all carried 10kg of personal luggage and 20kg of suitcases and stuff given by the people of Formby. Donations from St Peter's Church and pencil cases from Trinity St Peter's School [...]
We're here! It took 24 hours and no less than 6 forms of transport, but we have arrived! When we got off the plane, through immigration, picked up 330kg worth of luggage (more about that in another blog) and headed out into the bright sunshine. Waiting for us was the warmest welcome ever from Sheila, [...]
So I've done a bit of reflecting about the children who were present at Rock Solid last week, but what about the Team? The Team who led the 650 kids consisted of 125 people, youngest aged 15, with an average age of 17. They did jobs ranging from gunge tank fillers, to small group leaders, [...]
On Sunday I got back home after a week camping in Somerset at a Christian gathering called New Wine. Despite what felt like none stop rain (Nathan's reaction when I got back was: 'you smell damp'), we had a wonderful time. So, at this gathering there were 14000 people who worshipped, prayed, listened, reflected and [...]
Rev Poppy 