First Sunday of Lent

8:00am Holy Communion at All Saints
10:30am Holy Communion at All Saints - with introduction to Viewpoints / "Position"
2:00pm Baptism at All Saints
3:00pm Wedding Interview
6:30pm Growing Disciples

King Kong: What is his Viewpoint?

Bishop in residence

Bishop Alan is worried about his carbon footprint, so he's decided to spend entire days in each deanery to allow people to come to him - and avoid some of the long journeys that people need to make to see him... so we had Bishop Alan in residence today. He borrowed a room in our house and did bishopy things. It was an interesting day.

This evening we had an Ecumenical Confirmation in Milton Keynes with one candidate from Watling Valley. I couldn't be there because I was at the first session of Viewpoints, our new discernment course. This seemed to go well although numbers were low. The second group starts tomorrow. I'm hopeful that this will be a really significant tool in our discipleship kit, so this is a project I'm watching very closely...

December Team Meeting

This evenings Team Meeting was fairly long, but we discussed Local Worship Leaders, the Viewpoints Course, funerals, youth workers and our priorities for 2008 - amongst other things. I'm pleased to say, I think our Worship Leader poilcy may finally be agreed - although I may be talking to soon...
Next month we agreed to look at Local Shared Ministry, with a presentation and a discussion. This could be interesting - I'm really not sure which way the Team will lean...