Well, here we are, the start of a new year!
Very strange, but even though I have not been a teacher in school for years I still view September 1st as a start of a new year. It always feels, after the slowness or ‘different-ness’of August, that coming back in September really is the start of a new year. For many YFC centres in particular it means new staff.

I thought I would be working today. In fact, I have needed to take a holiday day as Sarah needs to be in school and the children do not start until tomorrow. It’s a welcome break and in a short while I think we are off for a cycle.

Tonight sees the start of a new term at SEITE. ‘Christology and Eschatalogy in the New Testament’. I don’t relish the idea of studying again, but it will be good to see the people. I sense we learn just as much from each other in our personal discussions as we do from the lectures anyway.

This year on the youthwork front, Sarah has asked me to look into a virtual chat space for Landmark which is the 14-18 group. I think I am going to set up a room at the Habbo Hotel which Andrew put me on to years ago. Now I am going to give it a go – I’ve had a little play and it’s quite cool as you can choose your online character and buy furniture from your room, etc etc – I’ll stop there as I am starting to sound geekly!

Workwise I am looking to meet up with lot of new people in new areas and may have to visit a group of churches in Land’s End, followed by a group in Bournemouth, Brighton and Weymouth. It’s a hard life looking at centre planting along the sunny south coast!

So …roll on September – I’m ready for ya!