I’m back!
On the phone last night to a friend I havent seen in ages - the father of my 2 not-so-wee-anymore Goddaughters. J told me off for not updating the blog in a while, and was checking that things were generally ok.
Pentecost seems an appropriate time to start again - new life, new energy and all that jazz which is so important in church and in life.
Its just been a case of blog staleness, rather than anything major that has kept me away this last month and a half - life continues as ever with its varying busy-ness. Time has been spent balancing family/social/work lives (how do those of you with kids manage this???) and rebuilding energies and enthusiasm in the 2 wee churches here in the West End, with mixed results. A joint service last Sunday (as we do on the first sunday of every month) saw a couple of visitors bravely invited along by members who have been thinking about mission as we’ve worked through some of the “leading your church into growth” material.
That the skeptics (in the nicest possible way) bit the bullet and decided to invite someone was success in itself - though you should have seen the faces when those “invitees” came along! It was wonderful. A congregation of almost 50 for a joint service is unheard of, but there we had it, and it was great!
