tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70370862011-09-01T12:17:30.226ZA Youth Worker trying to walk the walk as well as talk the talkWeird Hippyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05583825567754002918noreply@blogger.comBlogger4471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037086.post-84450238476045300102007-02-17T12:58:00.000Z2007-02-17T13:03:17.953Z

After more than 2 and a half years over here at blogger I have decided to make the move to Wordpress. I have been trying to create some more sidebar space by adding an extra column but it seems far beyond my technical capabilities. So please update your blog roll and viewers tohttp://weirdhippy.wordpress.comCheck out the new site and let me know what you think. It'll take me a while to get it as

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Well it's been a manic week running holiday club. Here are a couple of photos of me playing Dr Potty in the daily drama and explaining one of the games. I've discovered this week that my capacity to learn lines each day is limited and have had to work hard to get them to go in. It seems to have been going well although I find this younger kids stuff very tiring.It's been great on a youthwork

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This week is half term in our part of North London. For us that means Holiday Club week and this year is Pyramid Rock. We'll have a bunch of primary school kids descending upon us. It will be a hyper week I'm sure but usually ends up being a lot of fun. I have loads of our young people helping out in various ways which will be great for them. I have many drama lines to learn and there will

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Interesting quote flagged up by Jonny here. It reminded me of a conversation/discussion that Roy (who has sadly killed his blog) were having over coffee yesterday about directing/steering/building plans for organisations . I hope I didn't burden you too much with my bablings yesterday Roy. I'm not sure if it helps us come to answers about what we were talking about but it definitely adds to the

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I've just finished putting together a video for use on Sunday morning. We are teaching a series called "The Story We Find Ourselves In" where we are trying to run from creation to new creation in 8 weeks with a group of 11-17's.This video will be used as part of the second in the series 'Vandalism' which Andy will teach. I taught the first on creation a few weeks back and I asked Andy to speak on

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For those of you who have Year 11's or others who are facing exams over the coming months there is a good website that you can steer young people to called Exam Attack. It does a good job in dealing with some of the emotions and issues that could arise. It also offers the opportunity to use their material so that you can offer this resource to schools. Excellent stuff and it seems a great

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I'm in one of those periods of time where there is much that needs to be done but it's not the stuff I want to do. I don't know if there's anyone else that gets like that. I have a mass of loose ends to tie up and a bit of prep to do but the thing I want to focus on is the creative and from my perspective more fun stuff.The fun idea is a discipleship course called Let God Grow that was the brain

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Well I'm back from our weekend away. It ended up being an amazing time where a fairly disparate group came together formed new friendships, hung out with each other, did some mad activities and met with God.I love these times together. I find them physically exhausting but also inspiring. As many have said, a weekend away together is the equivalent to many weeks or even months of our programmes.I

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I came a across an interesting article in yesterdays Guardian regarding Steve Chalke and much of the work that he is involved in. It continues the very current debate about how intertwined church and state should be. I have a vested interest as the first Oasis Academy will open in enfield in september.I also have a long standing interest as I have any friends still working for Oasis and have

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Not sure about this one. I found this link via Mark Russell's blog. Here are my celeb look a likes (I haven't heard of many of them). There will be nothing of substance coming from this blog over the next little while as my brain is a bit fried after manically trying to get the talks written for our weekend away.I think my wife would like me to look life Matt Damon.

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I've just come across this performance of in my opinion the best song of 2006, 'My Secret is My Silence' by Roddy Woomble at the Cambridge Folk Festival. You can see my video of the song here from when I saw him on London last summer.

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According to this article on the NME website we may soon be worshipping using 'One' and 'Beautiful Day'So I better dust down the electric guitar and turn up the amp.

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This weeks looking a bit manic as I gear up for our annual weekend away. We're off to Halls Green and I'm going through that mix of really looking forward to it with that there is so much left to do and the what have i not remembered question nagging in my brain. I'm encouraged to be taking a good mix of young people from our friday night youth club. We are taking 18 young people which is really

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Any thoughts?

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An interesting piece from Ekklesia here about end times theology. Not something I claim to be an expert in but I tend to agree with her piece.

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I've just come across the as yet to be released new single and video from one of my favourite bands Idlewild here. I'm loving the track and it seems to be a return to slightly harder rockier stuff but not quite as much as there first album where as a 16 year old I thought I was going to die in the mosh pit of the Camden Dingwalls (now Jonglers). I've followed Idlewild development and in the last

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We had a really nice little break over the weekend. It ended up being quite tiring as I ran from one activity to the next as well as sharing our villa with our nieces and nephews (3 under 4). We had a great family meal in a revolving restaurant with a live pianist which was cool. I've added a set into my flickr set in the side bar as well as organising most of the photos in there now.

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After a very mild Christmas in London we have had some more extreme weather over the last week.This was the affects of the weather near our street in North London on ThursdayAnd this was my walk to my office this morning

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Yesterday Jo had her first scan. The highlight was being told everything is going well closely followed by there's only one in there. We have endured various taunts about there being twins.

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After Juan Mann's Free Hugs campaign in Australia attracted millions of hits on youtube the times newspaper have re-inacted the campaign in City of London's square mile. A male and female journalist both went out with the obligatory 'free hugs' signs. The article is in today's paper.You can see their video here, and the original video which I posted here.Go on give someone a hug today.

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White and Nerdy - Weird Al Yancovic

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I've got a bit of time off over the next week. We're off to Centre Parcs on Friday for a long weekend with various bits of my family. I'm particularly looking forward to having a round of golf and my trip to the aqua sauna, nice!

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I am proud to say that I haven't seen any of celebrity big brother. I do however follow the blog of comedian Dave Gorman. It appears that Dave was on one of the programmes about it sharing his view. I just had a look and even though I don't know many of the house mates i enjoyed as usual Dave's wit (and for people that have seen his previous work) and his graph/chart.We went to see Dave Gorman's

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I took this picture this morning as I walked to my first meeting of the day.

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With the before mentioned vote taking place we took the opportunity to pop off south of the river to church.co.uk.It was great to see their church and hear about there vision for the future. It was good to see my old pal Dave Steell and to hear Steve Chalke preach.Steve was preaching the first in a new series called 'If good people do nothing.....'Steve focussed on 'the breakdown of the family'

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Sunday saw a vote about my contract here in Winchmore Hill. The vote ended up with me being offered a years extension to my contract which I have decided to accept. It was really encouraging to hear that I still have the blessing of the church and I will be now be staying around until the summer of 2008.

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It was good to have our local MP David Burrowes along to our youth club on Friday evening. He got involved and played football, table tennis and pool with a number of the young people.

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I came across this quote in my archives from when I first starting blogging in May 2004 whilst I was still looking for something else. I still like it. I guess for an over reflective person like me I sometimes forget about living it forwards."Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward."Søren Aaby Kierkegaard

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I love this new idea for child sponsorship that Bart Campolo posts about here. It flips the whole idea on its head. I reminds me a bit of a project that Tony used to do when we were in Custom House at Ascension Church where he took local East London kids and rich kids from Felsted school on a sailing trip for a few days and got them interacting and working together.

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This is the first book that I have finished this year and it was a real cracker. It came highly recommended as it was often mentioned by other authors who I really enjoy.The subtitle does a good job of summing it up 'non-religious thoughts on Christian spirituality.' The book is autobiographical and explores the spiritual journey of the author. It seems to jump around a lot but I quite enjoyed it

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A great quote that I found via Mark Berry. Here is probably my favourite Thomas Merton quote but this one is wonderful."The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in

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I love this advert. I love the closing line you are every one 2 one that you have ever had. I think I may use this at a group I am speaking at tonight. I was actually tring to find the martin luther king/ ian wright one2one advert but can't find it anywhere.So who would you like to have a one2one with?

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I've been mulling this post over for a while and it has been formed by a number of conversations and thoughts that I've been having. I have no idea whether I have the ability to get out of my head what I want to say into this post but i'll give it a go.I remember whilst at college we had a big discussion about this topic of 'does the ends justify the means?' when it comes to evangelsim. I also

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I received the quote below this morning in an email. The critique of being 'purpose driven' reminds me of a few things that Rob Bell said at Youthwork the Conference last year. I like this quote although I'm not sure about 'It is not the destruction of all that is evil.' I think it really summarises Christian hope in a very eloquent way. However surely part of our hope is the ultimate destruction

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I'm back at work today after a lovely little break over Christmas/New Year. It was great to spend time with family and friends. Below are a couple of video's from the last few days.Jo's Christmas Present (ipod speaker) also with a little tribute to James Brown.Christmas Pressies on VimeoMy niece and nephew enjoying themselves around at our flatKids on Vimeo

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Hopefully I will be tidying things up on this blog over the next few days and adding and deleting a few elements. Hopefully things will be looking nice and tidy for the New Year.

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NEWS ALERTWe have just finished telling family and friends over Christmas that Jo is pregnant. Very excited. She is due at the beginning of August.

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Great piece on Football Focus on the BBC this morning around Christians in football. Hosted by Gavin Peacock who was well known for being a Christian at Chelsea they had interviews with Tottenham's Jermain Defoe and Portmouths Linvoy Primus. They both spoke really well and honestly. It was good to see this focus at this time of year.

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Click here if you want a good laugh at my expense.

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I have been tagged for the second time in a few weeks. After Roy got me the other week, Tony has got me with a different one this time.Well I need to share 5 things that you may not know about me, so here goes.1) I am a member of the British Parachute Association although I have never done a parachute jump. I was raising money with some friends to go on a mission trip to the Philippines. We did

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Four Views on HellI approached this book with slight trepidation as I thought it may well open up a bigger can of worms than I was prepared to deal with. However in many ways that can of worms had already been opened courtesy of other things.The book take a look of 4 different theories on Hell and then the authors of each chapter then critique each other. I like this approach and find it helpful

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As what seems like a tradition now i am taking my pre-Christmas retreat day. I love having this time to reflect upon the last year, to think through the highs and lows, joys, trials as well as the significant things that I will take away from it.I have arrived at my favourite place of retreat, The Fish and Eels Pub in Dobbs Weir. It's taken me about 2 hours to walk up to here from Jo's work where

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I decided to go for a run early this morning in our local park. It was nice to get out in the crisp air and see the frost around and just delight in the quietness. As i ran (not for too long) I could see the world waking around me. During the advent season we wait with expectation for Christmas day, the coming of a Saviour. We see and can feel that expectation all around us, even in people who

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I love this ad. Especially relevant in all the Christmas traffic. Enjoy

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Here a some of the highlights of the year as well as some of my favourite photos My creation Originally uploaded by lnpearson.

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I've just stumbled across Mark Russell's blog here. Mark is the new CEO of the Church Army and is a really good guy. I spend a week at spring harvest working with him in 2001 as well as sharing a chalet. Anyway after what seems like it could be even more hard times for the Church of England as flagged up by TallSkinnyKiwi it was great to read some positive news stories that Mark links to

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Another fantastic video flagged up by Tony below.

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Well it was my turn to play Santa last night as part of our Boys Brigade companies Trailor Collecting. We were collecting for SCOPE and The Boys' Brigade.

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I got our youth discipleship group re-writing Pslam 139 in everyday language. Here is one of the offerings.Lord you know all about meAnd you know everything I do and thinkYou know all my actionsYou know what I'm going to say before I say itYou protect me everywhere with your powerYou know more than I can understandI can't hide or escape from youYou are with me everywhereNo matter where I go, you

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We managed to get over to see my new little niece Rachael yesterday. Jo managed to get a picture of me looking a little scared and just generally trying to be careful. I did have a little more confidence than i usually do with babies after having a hold of Amanda and Neil's little boy Daniel.

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Well my new niece has just arrived, Rachel 8 pounds 7. They got their wish for a pre-Christmas present. The Pearson clan expands again, there are now 3 Pearson niece/nephews.

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HT to Tony for this video, love it. I'm sure this will be used as some point. I love the subversive nature of stuff like this, teenagers doing good, being models to adults. Wonderful

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We managed to track down the smallest real Christmas Tree this afternoon. I did the carrying and Jo did the decorating. I took this picture on Photo Booth on the Mac. It's got some cool features, I might put some pics up that i've played with a bit at some point.

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Cartoon by Dave Walker. Join the Oxford Street Christmas Lights Campaign at the Cartoon Blog.Hopefully this weekend we will get our Christmas Tree and a few decorations up. Hopefully not enough to endure the wroth of this campaign. I do however agree with this campaign, we are trying hard at the moment to live a bit more green. I am continuing to love these cartoons and point to Dave Walker's

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Well i'm sure this is the first time that take that have made it onto this blog. For anybody that missed an audience with them on sat evening here they are performing. The reason i post is that if you watch carefully you will see the Ascension Eagles Cheerleaders from Custom House dancing and throwing stunts in the background before finishing with an impressive 3 high pyramid. Let me stress that

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Just a quick heads up as n:flame have started a blog that i may be contributing from time to time with others including Roy and Suse. You can access there blog via their website here

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Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.I've just bought Dave Walker of the Cartoon Blog fames book. I love it. I'm even thinking about getting a subscription to use his work. That would be a cool christmas present, hint, hint.

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I love Radiohead's Just off of one of my all time favourite albums 'The Bends'. The video however still remains a ministry to me. I would love someone to share there wisdom of what they think is going on in it. I find it really compelling and i don't know why, maybe it is that element of the unknown about it. Any thoughts welcomed.

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People that know me a bit will know that I suffer from semi-regular bouts of insomnia. Last nights was one such night. It's funny how different things seem at night as the mind wanders and things race about. Well as i couldn't sleep i whacked on the digital radio (with headphones) to have a listen to the ashes. Well as i laid there unable to sleep i pondered what was more depressing knowing how i

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Well it's that time again on a Friday afternoon when i have to motivate myself to get set up for our youth club tonight. I love it when it actually starts it's just that the set up is a bit of a drag but hey ho.When looking at my archives November proves to be my bloggiest month in the 2 and half years of this blog. Well it's the start of advent and i haven't got a calendar which i think possibly

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Well as i walked into the office at 6:45 this morning i was horrified to discover that i had been tagged by Roy. Cheers mate! I had no idea what that meant but it appears that i have to fill in these questions with 1 word answers, so here goes.1. Yourself: steady2. Your girlfriend/boyfriend: Jo3. Your hair?: facial4. Your mother?: giving5. Your Father?: God6. Your Favorite Item: CD7. Your dream

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Schools can be great places to serve God but they can be the most frustrating places on earth. Today i experienced a bit of both. After arriving at school we were shown to our classroom by 2 wonderfully polite and helpful students and had the door held open by another extremely polite student. Upon our arrival it became apparent that there was some problem with our classroom as there was another

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It's here and seems to be working. Still finding my way around and I don't have too much time to play as i am teaching this afternoon and have my first one on one with a young person that i am discipling which is exciting. Anyway everything seems fine with making the blog work and it even shows everything it is suppose to unlike my dell.Does anybody out there know how to move songs from an ipod

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Well the weekend came and went as did Monday. This weekend felt as though i didn't spend much time at home or with Jo. I was at the London Baptist Association event Re:Action which Pete blogs about here, had a friend teaching about worship in a youth work on sunday, legged it up to mums after a great sunday dinner before running back to be at Discuss our new format evening service based around

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I've just found a match report and some photos from my last football match here which even has reference to my amazing (not lucky) direct from a corner goal.

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I have always enjoyed theology to a certain degree. I did seem to always find myself during my time at college head scratching and thinking that there should be a new class of which i would be president, 'Theology for Stupid People'. Whilst away it was good to catch up with Jeremy my tutor at Oasis. As i sat in his lecture on 'God's Mission' those feelings started to re-emerge. I got the chance

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It's been a good day in terms of creativity. I tried to set aside today not to get to much ticked off the 'to do' list but instead try and work through lots of varied and seemingly unconnected ideas and thoughts. I started to think through a few and it was that amazing snowball effect that i seem to get all to rarely when things just started to fit together and start to make a little sense.I

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Wow it was windy this morning as i ambled along the sea front back towards the conference centre (video has been removed because it seems to start all the time even when its not the latest post and that is far too annoying. The video is here instead now). I love having that chance to walk first thing in the morning especially by the sea. I like my 15 min walk to the office each day, if only i

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Over the next few days i will be posting my journalled thoughts and relfections during my time in Eastbourne. Some will be thoughts on the conference and the things i have learnt and some will be personal reflections upon my journey and the things God has been saying to me and what i am working through. We were asked at the start of the full timers pre-conference event to consider our

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Well i'm getting there in my attempt to get everything off my to do list before i venture off to youthwork the conference in the morning. I have however turned into more of a control freak than normal as i try to make sure everything i should be at is covered. As usual it may well run much more smoothly without me trying to interfere.Our youth club on Friday is one thing that i have been trying

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I'm excited as i've just set up an account with Abel & Cole, who sell organic food and will be delivering them weekly to my doorstep. It's great to be able to get good organic food and supprot their ethical policies whilst it doesn't cost a fortune which has turned me off in the past.

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For no other reason than it's funny. I love Alan Partridge, why oh why was there not a 3rd series. No more senseless blog posts for a while, well at least until tomorrow.

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This picture shows barbed wire and poppies as well as faces and places caught up or affected by war. Never has there been such polar opposites of a delicate flower acught up in sharp barbed wire.Yesterday during our morning service we stood and remembered the horrific affects of war and those caught up in it.We were reminded of places of conflict at home and abroad. We were also asked to sign our

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HT to Tony for flagging this up, he seems to be posting some good stuff since he's been layed up injured. I love this video. It made me smile on a dreary Monday morning.

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i've just finished reading James Cracknell and Ben Fogle's reflections on their journey across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The book is a follow up to the BBC documentary of this story. It was very inspiring as the 2 of them battled against so many problems to complete the race. The mix of highs and lows and the physical and mental punishment that they went through makes for

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As the weekend approaches i think that this little offering is especially timely.- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."

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I was reminded of this piece of brilliance from Donald Rumsfeld after the political events in the USA yesterday. The Daily Mirror today published an 'i told you so' after their headline after the re-election of Bush. They are know claiming that America is coming around to their way and probably a fair few others way of thinking.

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There's a really good post here by Bart Campolo. I think it's quite poignant for me at the moment.

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I took these pics in the church sanctuary yesterday with all the lights off apart from behind the wall mounted cross. I like the effect.Yesterday as most tuesdays flew by with different groups to be at and to speak at. It was a good day but i'm looking forward to a little bit of a quieter one today.

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"turn swords into ploughshares"Pacifism and non-violence are subjects that have been on my radar for a few years now since my days under the tutoring of Jeremy Thomson the theology lecturer at Oasis. A few other menonites's have crossed my path as well all of which have influenced my thinking around this issues although i do not claim to have completely worked through answers.There is an

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Our third game of the season ended up in a frustrating draw. Although the better team by far we unfortunately let our 2 goal lead slip in no small amount down to an amazing amount of injuries that left our team basically playing with 9 men as both our main striker and of course me struggled around the pitch with hamstring strains. I seem to be getting alot of injuries this season and i also

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This is my 365 post, one for each day of the year. That is in 2 and a half years.Here is a little quote that has been influencing my thinking this week. Mentoring manages to continue to be something i am thinking through a lot. We are starting some new intergenerational mentoring relationships at church and i am also talking with Roy currently as we try and work out if there's scope to do

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I was at a meeting with our local MP David Burrowes yesterday. He is a Christian and was meeting with church leaders to talk about how national and local issues could effect us and any concerns that we may have. Anyway my mind was wandering in what was a fairly negative meeting. I like the guy, i have met him a few times and like what he's doing locally. The thing is he is a Conservative! My

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I've just been listening to Bart Campolo's message at last years youthwork the conference here. Really provocative message, i encourage you to have a listen to his take on Ruth 3. I'm off to Youthwork the Conference in a few weeks time in Eastbourne. I've never been before but am quite looking forward to it. I haven't been to a conference for a couple of years so it will be nice to get some input.

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Life at the moment is a bit like trying to run through treacle, sticky and complicated. Well that's in my own mind anyway, it's funny that when you become close to something it's very difficult to see the bigger picture. Things are actually going along quite nicely but I think i'm just going through one of those seasons that invloves pressing on, sorry probably makes no sense. Perhaps it's the

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Here a few pics that i have just come across in an n:flame mag featuring the Stop! anti bullying workshop from last year. Great picture of me aka Patrick bullying Rich aka Dean. The first pic features new mum amanda in her role of Mrs Hawkin's.

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It's been one of those days so far. I lost a cash card the other day and then discovered that it hadn't been cancelled today as i had asked them to. Anyway i went into the branch and they assured me it was now done and it was. Unfortunately for me as i used my other card from the same bank that one was eaten by the machine because as i later discovered they managed to cancel both cards. Very

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Here is what i'm listening to at the moment. Anyone discovered anything new that is worth a listen. Feel like i just back catelogue now as i don't buy much new stuff out. I also heard an interview the other day about how some musicians are very disheartened about making albums nowadays due to the downloadable music phenomenon. The complaint was that people will just pick particualr songs off of

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I like these pics of some table lights that i have just bought for a newly styled youth club. They randomly change colour, cool.

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After speaking on Sunday at church (which i think went ok, always hard to tell)i've had a couple of days off to use up some annual leave which must be taken by the end of the year. Monday we went to see 'Click' starring Adam Sandler, it is one of those real feel good films which is pretty funny and you don't need to concentrate too hard. We went to a showing in the middle of the afternoon (

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It's been a quiet week on my humble blog but here is a little quote for the weekend. I will be using this as i speak to the adults at church on Sunday. Hopefully it will be a good challenge to our church and to us individually."Now is not the time for ease and comfort, now is the time to dare and to endure."Winston Churchill

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So we've all seen young people trying to beatbox, probably some better than others. I walked down the road the other day and heard some boys practicing. It turns out President Bush is getting down with the youth.

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I love this wonderfully provocative video by Dove that a few people have flagged up recently. I used it last night and it does prove to be a good discussion starter. I'm sure i'll be using it again as it is very powerful.

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It's been a manic start to the week as i've run from one meeting to another and one group to the next.I was leading a session last night with our youth discipleship group and on my way home was reflecting upon how it had gone. I was a little down as it hadn't gone as i had hoped and i was thinking through a few dynamics issues with some younger members of the group and the impact that they were

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It's that time again. Here is a little offerening that i love from Mike Yac's wonderful little book, Dangerous Wonder.'A four year old girl was overheard whispering into her newborn baby brother's ear, "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I am starting to forget."

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Thanks for the link Andy. Someone has obviously been watching me play recently. I'm sure i've missed some bad ones over the years but i'm not sure if any are as bad as these ones.

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We've got a number of weddings that we will be attending over the next year. We were phoned by one of the couples our good friends Joy and Mark and they asked Jo and me to be involved in their wedding. We are both feeling massively honoured to be asked to be Matron of Honour and to do the address at the ceremony (i'll let you guess who has been asked to do which!). Thanks guys for asking, i have

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Glad to say that it didn't take too long to give the site an overhaul. I like the new look, what do you think? Obviously if your viewing through a reader you will need to look it by actually going to the site. It a lot more functional for me to use now and should be quicker to keep sorted out and looking ship shape.

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Sorry if things appear a bit jumbled for a few days. I'm trying when i get spare mins to sort things out a bit.

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