Archive for June, 2009

Church camps

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

We have just come back from our annual church weekend away. It was a good experience. Unfortunately, with a lot of people working on Saturdays, we don’t start until mid morning on Saturday (and even then there is little more than half the people present), so by the time we finish with lunch on Sunday [...]

The end and a new beginning

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

We had two of our end-of-year meetings this week, with the Monday night group cell group having their last meeting at our house, and then the Young Adults’ group coming for dinner on Saturday night. There was in fact only about half of the group present, since some have already left for summer jobs elsewhere, [...]

End of year activities

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Our four days away at a conference for missionaries in Italy went reasonably well. There were a lot less people present than expected, which meant less opportunities for catching up with friends. All our free time was also taken up looking after the children, which made it hard to talk with others. Although Daniele did [...]

Bible study group planning

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

On Thursday I had my annual meeting with the elders to talk about the Bible study groups this past year, and to think about the program for next year. For the studies, the groups will be doing 1Chronicles and a series on Christian doctrine based on the Apostles’ Creed. This means that after a few [...]