Feisty and flowing

It has been an interesting week. For the first time in our studies something touched a nerve within our class and at our PMP lecture last week we started expressing views in ways that thus far had layed dormant. It was good to hear some of the more timid members speak out and what started within PMP continued in our Reflection Group. Encouragingly, this freedom to share continues in the new week and it brings fresh engagement with our lectures as we start to shed our inhibitions and share what we truly believe. Long may it continue!

So from the 'feisty' discussions in college to the flowing discussions and activity of church life.
We continue to encounter 'People on the edge of His pain' in our Lenten studies. I have met with a small group of members to explore whether we might form a 'Friends' group. Interestingly our discussion moved from this more passive suggestion for fundraising to a far more pro-active, mission focused, approach with the team flowing with ideas for outreach activities and an enthusiasm to organise them and find others to help rather than rely on the already over stretched Deacons to do it. Exciting!

We also have met in the first of our responsibility clusters where we focused on 'Fabric'. In small groups we spent time auditing the condition of the building inside and out and identifying things we'd like to improve or change. This list is quite long and we need to prioritise things under headings of DIY and Professionals. There was enthusiasm for some work days to reduce the DIY list which again is encouraging.

Easter looms and it has been good to finalise all the service orders for services up to and including Easter Day. (We have a dry run for our baptism scheduled for this week to reassure the candidate -and me- of the logistics of the day.)

Sunday saw us uniting with our friends from Mongeham and Deal for a united service here at Walmer in the evening. It was good to share together with our friends who supported the evening in greater numbers than in the recent past.

Hopefully, on my return from college today I shall find that fliers for the Easter Egg hunt have come which I can take to school for them to distribute to the pupils. I'm likely to brave the scaffold tomorrow to inspect the works ongoing on our spire. News of this and of our Palm Sunday worship which will be , as we warned the congregation last Sunday, different! What would they (or you) expect?