Louise Rocked

Well I hope your Monday has been good and that you had a good weekend. We had a lovely picnic in the Domain with the boys on Friday night in the sunshine which was fun and then a great friend celebrated his fortieth on Saturday night which was awesome.

I hope my talk on death did not depress you too much on Sunday morning. But if you did not hear Louise Grant’s talk in the evening on singleness you missed a treat. It was actually relevant to all of us  as she spoke about insecurity and identity and following God. I would have a listen on line if I were you. Dave Atkinson’s talk the week before in the evening service was also wonderful.

I am really looking forward to the “Thank You To Our Troops” cinema night tonight in which we are thanking all of our volunteer team members who have made the church tick this year. You are all amazing! We are watching “Frist Grader” at Sylvia Park which looks great. Have a great week.

New Wine Leadership Retreat/ Well done Life Questions Team

Newt, Paul, Dino, Richard and I have been at a leadership retreat for the early part of this week. It was a fantastic couple of days with other church leaders from around New Zealand. I learnt masses: Newt has a lemon coloured suitcase, Richard’s mum is lovely, Paul snores and Dino packed more than all of us put together and dragged around with him the largest suitcase I have ever seen. What was in it Dino? Hair product? We also learnt masses from John and Annie Coles who are church leaders from the UK who have recently retired after 34 years of ministry.  They are fun and very godly people. We also made some great new friends with other leaders. Well done to New Wine and well done to Lydia Read who organized the whole thing.
Well done as well to all who invited friends to Life Questions last night. What a night! I can’t wait to see how the next few weeks go.
I am looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday when I am going to be speaking about death. Agony last week, death this week….thankfully this is the last one in the series☺

Life Questions, Glowbulous etc.

Don’t forget that Life Questions is starting next week with the banquet. This is the time to be thinking about who you can pull in to this great evening. I saw the team last night at our house at a training session that Bex was running and this is going to be awesome.

I am also absolutely delighted that Glow is a runner for this year again. How amazing! The final money came in at 5.20pm on the last deadline day. Maybe there is a lesson in here or certainly at least a question. Why is God never later or early? Anyway do put December 11th in your diaries now and get inviting all of your mates to come for the annual carol sing song by glow stick.
Also a big thanks and congratulations to the Glow team, not least James, Jo, Ren, Paul, Andy and Peter for your efforts. And a big thank you to all who have contributed.

I am looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday. I am speaking on the agony of life in the morning. Mmmmm it does not sound that tempting does it; but it is going to be great.