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, [...]
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New Wine: Preteens, Prayer & Praise
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 [...]
‘Hello, are you Poppy?’
A couple of months ago I would have found strangers in the street saying "Hello, are you Poppy?" rather unerving. But walking around a town, sorry, village, in a dog collar changes things. It changes how a person is seen. I am beginning to adapt, and I now find comments like "excuse me, are you the [...]
New home, new blog!
Hello! Throughout Vicar School I really enjoyed blogging occasionally, so I thought I'd get a new page to do a bit of blogging alongside my ministry! I'll be moving from writing about the school part of training (theological education) into the apprenticeship phase (curacy), as it were. You'll be very welcome to have a look [...]
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