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Weekly Check-in (78)

January 8, 2021 revpoppyLeave a comment

Well, what a week! Here we are, four days into lockdown 3 and eight days into 2021. Doesn't it feel like longer?! Anyway, I am rating this week 5/10. Highs and lows, highs and lows. One Sunday I preached at the joint service, about God being with us on our journey even when the road [...]

Posted in Weekly Check-inTagged church, lockdown, Ministry

Weekly Check-in (77)

January 1, 2021 revpoppyLeave a comment

Happy new year! Once again, it is Friday night and I am snuggled up in the corner of the sofa, laptop on knee and chinese consumed with something excellent on the TV (tonight's viewing is Bridgerton!). Anyway, this week: 8/10. Mark, my vicar boss when I was a curate, taught me to take it easy [...]

Posted in Weekly Check-inTagged Ministry, vicar

Weekly Check-in (75)

December 18, 2020 revpoppyLeave a comment

'Twas the week before Christmas and the vicar was collapsed on the settee with a bowl of chinese after working nearly 60 hours since Monday morning. So I've decided not to say much about those 60 hours (three services written, three reflections written, two funerals prepped, one funeral taken, three meetings attended, Foodbank done, online [...]

Posted in Weekly Check-inTagged Christmas, Ministry, vicar

Six months as a vicar

December 15, 2020November 1, 2023 revpoppy2 Comments

It feels absolutely insane that I have been here at The Good Shepherd for six months. In many ways, the time has flown by! But, six months is half a year, a good amount of time and, as Nathan said, 'what have we done in six months?' Well, by my reckoning I've done: 0 weddings, [...]

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