This year we have decided to support a new youth project instead of paying for a holiday (that and having the outlay on the cars). However we would still like to try and get away for a week or two and wondered if anyone fancied doing a house swap at Easter or in the summer. We are about 20 mins from the devon/dorset coast in chard, and would need a two/three bed house. Anyone interested let me know.
Anti-social behaviour
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has published a survey conducted by the Youth Taskforce focusing on anti-social behaviour (here). The survey reveals that 80 per cent of people surveyed would like more positive activities for young people. The survey also shows that over two thirds of people in the 69 priority areas targeted think anti-social behaviour has stayed the same or got better over the last two years, while over a quarter say anti-social behaviour has got worse.
College is closed for Today and tomorrow. so i am about to venture out in the snow.
HAppy new year? The last day of leave before i go back to work after an interesting break. Good times with family but needed to spend a grand on the cars servicing, tyres, tax etc and then mine has just gone wrong (not sure what maybe just a dirty fuel filter hopefully not the turbo) and needs an mot. Indie has chicken pox and very spotty, and got a message to say college has been flooded and my desk in particular (which included my lecture prep) but still I have enjoyed the break. Happy new year
I hope not to open the computer between now and Jan.
Marys simple acceptance of the unbelievable is a simple message of faithfulness to us. Her willingness to move to a new way of being and thinking, challenges us to faithfully follow God into the new place.
Reality is suspended for Elizabeth when she is told she will give birth in her advanced years, and her husband is struck dumb. Zechariah gets his voice back when the child is born and named. At the appointed time Zechariah is released, and he gives praise to God and points the way to Christ. In our disbelief we try to voice our questions but perhaps we should remain silent and simply witness the growing presence of Christ around us.
We cannot get away from the concept of powerless in the child of Christ. The reality of coming to earth in this way turns the world on its head. To begin to experience mission in a similar powerless way is to begin to understand what it means to be yoked to Christ.
The birth of Jesus was seismic shift in our encounter with God. The whole approach of Gods engagement with humanity shifted direction from distant to near, from global to local, from carrying to carried. Mission in recent years has gone through a similar shift but we still have a long way to go.