Meeting people

This weekend has been too busy.

Yesterday we went to the Highway church (a Bicester area church) annual camp for the day. It's a neat arrangement, where for a relatively nominal sum you get to camp with decent loos and showers AND have cooked food provided. We only went for the day (I confess being reluctant to give up even that much time) but that still meant being out 14 hours. However it was good, rather than a waste.

There was some good stuff said, but we had a funny encounter. They had Paul Gutteridge who is senior pastor of Christian Growth Centre at Chelmsford in essex as main speaker. He'd done Friday night - to which we'd not gone - and the Saturday morning session was covered by Andy, the guy that heads up Highway. So we sat down at lunch with a view to having conversations with people we didn't know. Swapped seats at desert time and sat with a guy on his own. He was quite personable and we talked about a variety of stuff (including some of the highlights of his message that evening, as it turned) but we quite clearly had no idea what he was doing there.

It's good to keep people humble. ;-)

He also gave me a few things to think through, particularly in the light of what is going to be the way forwards for us in the next 12 months.