Met with Phil Greig, the DYO for Rochester Diocese, in the local noodle bar.

It was good to catch up and make plans for a half hour slot we have next week at Bishops staff meeting to look at youth work and YFC working with churches in the diocese. I’m quite excited about this meeting and the possibility of working with Phil to encourage churches across the diocese in different forms of youth outreach and mission.

I have felt for a long time that the YFC centre set up is a good model for a Deanery project to bring churches together in a strategic and incarnational outreach to the young people of a particular community.

I really hope this meeting on Monday will be what my old boss in Nailsea, John Simons, would call a ‘red letter day’; a day that we can look back to and say ‘yeah … that was the starting point for something really exciting’.