A Slightly More Serious Post

Below is the frivolous picture and a few more can be seen if you click on the montage at the side (they are a taster if you're really interested let me know I'll send you all 500). We had an amazing time in Canada it was a wonderful month of beautiful scenery, lots of swimming in lakes and rivers, loads of barbecues and marshmallow roasting, great camping and the adrenaline highlight was definitely the white water rafting!

Now back to reality our eldest son started secondary/high school today - what a shocker how did I get old enough to have a kid at secondary school. I still feel the same as when I was 18, I don't think I look that different either maybe a bit greyer come to think of it. Well he was less traumatised than we were, so far so good he liked his teachers and made some new mates, although I think he'd be quite happy if he didn't have to go tomorrow.

While we were away the church plant team had loads of dreams and visions, I'm just trying to catch up now and am excited about the next couple of months as we start to work towards making some of the dreams reality. I have no doubt it is going to be hard work, but they are a great bunch of people and we're going to have some fun along the way.

It really was back to reality when within minutes of getting back to church I was asked to take the funeral of a young mother from the morning congregation. Tomorrow is Sandra's funeral please pray for her husband Ali and their family as they come to terms with their loss. Their faith at this really horrendous time has been staggering, and in their grief they do have incredible hope for the future and trust in God. It does put quite a lot of theorising into perspective...