I awoke this morning at 5.30 am all bright and breezy and ready to start on the journey to Halesowen for my first day with Youth for Christ. 5 minutes in to my journey I was struck by the beauty of even a place like Gillingham in the early morning. It really was an amazing sight seeing the mist clear over the River Medway as I drove towards it. I was even tempted to get up early regularly to see God’s creation … funny that desire seems to have gone after a long day!

The journey was going extremely well with the M1 moving nicely but then someone decided to close the junction I needed to leave the M5 from and I had to back track through the centre of Birmingham. I was all set to arrive at 9.45 but did not get to the office on my first day until 10.30! Good job Richard is an understnding boss!

I returned along the M40, with my new toys (laptop etc) – much better route if anyone needs to go to Halesowen!

Now that I have officially started I am starting to get excited again about possible work to reach young people around the country. There are a lot of exciting opportunities and I wait with great anticipation to see the lasting effects of Soul in the City amongst others.

Tomorrow I start to get to grips with things from home – one of the first things being setting up a home network so that both Sarah and I can work from here – mmmm that could be interesting – hope I don’t break anything! I’ll let you know!