Our youth group were washing cars this Sunday to earn money to get to Soul Survivor. Here are some pics. The next plan is selling bacon butties before the service.

The first event at the new Centre was the Marriage Course last night. It passed the first test with flying colours and it was such fun to be in our own place.

Here we have Claudius Maximus teaching the children about Roman discipline. Hopefully it lends context to the occasion when Jesus was approached by a Centurion requesting healing for his daughter. He then marched them all into the main hall to demonstrate the armour to the adults, helping us understand Ephesians 6 a bit better.

A great morning and definitely something to be repeated.

From start to finish, pictures of the new storehouse and its shelving to end all shelving. Thanks particularly to Mark and Dave,who have beavered away on it this week, and also Graham and Chris who chipped in (chipped in – get it?).

Our new venue is now starting to look less like a building site and more like an office!  As work has been progressing very fast, today we managed to start painting the main room.  Some of us used it as a dressing up occasion while posing for the camera, while others were painting!

This weekend the work has continued and we have finished the storehouse room. The photos are of Dave working hard and me applying the first stroke of paint. The main office is looking great – this is Carl our builder, probably not at his best…

…bashing things up and taking them away. This has been to clear space for the builders who arrive on Monday. Our new venue (Kinterbury House in the City Centre) is an exciting place that will provide office space and storage for the Children’s Storehouse. Thank you to all who helped, and watch this space for further workparties this month!

A group of us had a good time at the National Leaders Conference and the talks have been uploaded here.

I am pleased to say that despite the weather church went ahead as usual with a cracking service and a huge consumption of doughnuts and hot coffee to offset the cold. Below is a satellite picture of Britain taken on Wednesday. If you look carefully you can see my house.

Piccies of Mary, doc and andy (fellow conspiritors) on Christmas  Day at Bretonside Bus Shelter putting on Christmas Lunch for folks who had nowhere else to go.
‘thanks to everyone who contributed- we fed 30 or so it was a great atmosphere- we even had most of a samba band you wrapped 150 pressies- half went to our lot and half to shekinah there were some very grateful and overwhelmed people who recieved no other presents so thanks a lot – mary’