Suits

Well February is nearly over, the weather is still pretty poor, we had a huge storm over our house last night, good job Dan sleeps though anything! This is jsut a short wee blog really to share our excitment abotu a recent purchase. No not a house, nor even a new bike, but infact a suit. Okay so you probably guessed that by the title! NOt jsut any suit by Dan's first ever suit! We figuered that as we have 5 weddings to go to between now and july just have a look at what is around on ebay, we got him an awesome suit, waistcote, shirt tie and the works for £10 ... seriously great value for money!!

The Gathering

So, it all started a while back when church asked if I'd get involved in thier youth weekend. At the time I hadn't fully grasped what driving to Birmingham in the snow to meet 2000 other young people at "The Gathering" was going to be like.


<--- This was our back garden on the thursday morning. The drive up there was SHOCKING had I known how bad west Brom was I wouldn't have gone, in fac it made international news, that was funny as we were sat in it. The worst moment had to be when we were coming of the M5 to find 4 guys in yellow jackets hanging around to help push cars up the slip road if they couldn't do it themselves! The drive home was much better! So we got there friday night, the evengin meeting was pretty much cancelled, but the band came and played a couple tunes for us which was cool, they were awesome. However it then took us 50 mins to find the place we were staying, the bloke we were following got completely lost followign the directions we had all been given! when we finally go tthere, huge uproar over child protection and the room set up, we all have to move around, then we were greated wiht eh tbiggest snoring bloke ever. Now we look back and laugh, this video isn't that great, but you'll get the idea, turn you volume UP HIGH!

So yeah, that made it a long night, on top of having to give my sleeping bag to one of our youth who left his bag in his mums car. That is his bag containing everything! I slept ontop of a fethcing pink blanket and under a blue blanket with little sheep on. NICE!

SAturday was AWESOME. I was extrememly challanged by Nigel Tween who is the director of training for Elim, he did a seminar for over 18's on leadership and mentoring. It was fantastic. He said for us to survive as chirctians we need to be operating on 3 planes. up, across and down. We all need a mentor (UP) who will challange us when we need it and encourage us in our persuit of God. We all need to be mentoring (DOWN)someone or two, encouraging them in thier relationship with God and the gifts he has given them, but we also need to be meeting together with our peers (ACROSS). But he really hammered home that we need to be selective in who we have as a mentor, it needs to be someone wise and probably older. We need to be mentoring young people, after all, we only need to be one step a head of them but it all needs to be born out of relationship and those relationsihps need to be based on Jesus. So I got thining, who I my mentor. Is it my Dad who has taught me so much and is alway there, but is also 3000 miles away and not involved in everyday life, or is it Geoff our paster at church or is it one of the guys at work? Umm still need to get that sorted and maybe a bit more fomalised. Who am I mentoring, that was a bit easier to answer, but wahat about all the youth at church, who is mentoring them? Who woudl make good mentors? Where do we even start? How does cell group with into that structure? Does that change as cell group leaders? So that was a BIG challane as you can see!

Then was Saturday night, J John was AWESOME even if he does have a couple of storeies he tells everytime. Have you heard the one about the lady on a plane who asked what his job was? You'll have to go hear him. Well he gave a very challanging talk about being there for people and being prepared every moment for God to use you. He also told a pit of the stomach stories. You know that time sat on the bus and you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach that you should go talk to that person? He then gave an alter call in a very simple sensible way that wasn't presurful like a lot of evangelists do, and our of our girls stood up liek a rockets. It was a huge privelege to be involved in leading that 1 soul into the Kingdom of God, definitely a highlight for me!

Well without making this the longeest post in histroy, the band

5 worship leaders
4 guitars
3 drummers
1 percussionist
3 keyboards
1 bass
4 backing vocals
6 dancers
1 AWESOME saxaphone
2 Rappers

Did not evny the sound engineers on that job!

MORE SNOW

Well once again our part of the country grinds to a halt as we get 3 inches at home and it is still falling. My neighbour introduced me to scraping snow off the car with a broom. Extremely effective!

I finally worked out how to shoot video with my phone here is a wee clip of Dan!

BIKES!

here ya go, not the prettiest of all bikes ever, but it is mine, my first, my only, my... never mind...

More vehicle trouble

Motorbike this time, I have pictures, just on the home computer, I promise I will get them up here soon! I had to call the breakdown assistance people out, some problem with my clutch turns out to be some problem with the selector. Eventually get the guy arrives and we head with the bike over to Jullian at Long Crendon. He is a dude that man. Runs a little motorbike workshop on his own in the middle of an industrial estate that used to be a turkey farm. NO not the Bernard Mathews turkey farm that has been in the news the last couple days. the BBC news artice about said Turkey farm.


Whilst I was waiting the the assistance to arrive, I signed up for a map that put dots fro all our visitors. I doubt we are going to get that many visitors, but the little map looks cool all the same! you can find it over there on the side. Ahh now I have work to do.

Capo song FOR REAL

Well, bonjour! I have at last made it to posting on the blog!

Here is that song that tim wrote for new year...



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This is the first post that I have managed to do on this blog, been meaning to for ages but never got around to it! Maybe this will be the start of a whole new era in the life of our blog . . . and then again maybe not.

All a bit crazy when there is a two and a half year old with amazing amount of energy running around. Love Dan to pieces but he does make it a little tricky to spend much time on the computer. I know, excuses, excuses!

Well, best be off to sort some lunch. Hope you enjoy the video, it was certainly very funny at the time!