Great People

Today I had a meeting with the KEYCOG group (Kent Ecumenical Youth and Children's Officers Group) were amongst other things we were planning a training day for Youth and Children's workers and volunteers. It was such a good day, relaxed and creative. I came away from the meeting really encouraged.

It is exciting to work alongside your peers with one goal in mind for the benefit of others.

If you are interested in training in Kent, look up
www.keycog.co.uk
More info will be put up about the training day called Toolbox soon.

Home all day

Today I don't need to go out to any meetings at all! I can spend the whole day in my office catching up with my paper work.

Sometimes being on the road all the time, going from one meeting to another can be really tiring, so when you get a day were you can just sit in your own company, it's kind of nice.

I think that everyone needs their own space from time to time.

Fort Rocky

I am just recovering from a weekend away at Carroty Wood were YFC held a weekend for 11 -14 year olds called FORT ROCKY.

I had the task of feeding the 60 people who were there.

My legs hurt, my head hurts, my arms hurt but I feel quietly peaceful. This is because the young people that went had the most amazing time from climbing to high ropes, abseiling to swimming. They also had the chance to dress up as spies (James Bond Style) but the best thing was that they got to hear about God.

Phil, Bethan and their team shared their story and it made an impact. The young people that were there asked questions and were able to discover more in an exciting environment.

These weekend are so much hard work but well worth it!

German Student

We have a lovely German Exchange Student living with us at the moment. Bastian is 13 years old and is the boy that Jake stayed with when he went over to Germany in March.

I don't know a word of German but thankfully Bastian speaks English very well.

I think it is such a shame that we don't put as much emphasis on learning another language in this country. Bastian started learning English at a young age and speaks it well. Jake however has decided not to take German as an option.

His teacher said that he has never known someone to go over to Germany and come back speaking less German than when they went!

That's my Jake!

Jessica is now studying German in year 7 so I see a future of German students, at least for the next two years.

Email shortage

I have been deprived of my emails for a week now and I'm not sure how I've survived! The server at head office decided to go on strike and after back up after back up system failed, it was decided to rebuild the thing.

I am not sure what this involves but it is obviously time consuming and a total headache for those fixing it.

The one in the picture is not the one at head office! Apparently it is Google's first server.

If you have tried to get in touch with me via email, I am sorry that it has not got through.

I can now get webmail on the same address so try re-sending your mail.

As for the news bulletin, I will send it out as soon as I am back on line fully!

Baptism

Jessie was Baptised today in Cranbrook School swimming pool. It was freezing! I know this because I got in the pool with her and Martin our Vicar.

She gave a talk with power point to the church to say why she wanted to get baptised and I had one of those proud parent moments, she did really great.

Your kids grow up far too quickly!