The story of my day …

I left the house and Sarah looked on in a sense of uncomfortable anguish.
‘Where are you meeting this person?’
‘Junction 7 of the M3.’
‘And then ….?’, her eyes enquired with a little concern.
‘I am following his car down country lanes to an estate were I will be meeting with a few others’
‘But you don’t know who’s estate, or where it is?’
‘mmmm no – but don’t worry – it’ll be fine!’

I got in the car and tentatively set off at 7.15am, wondering if my long held secret desire of becoming a spook was about to be fulfilled.

The 90 minute journey took 3 hours. UK drivers don’t know how to drive in rain, or in snow, or even when it’s hot! At 10.15 I drove up the slip road of junction 7 to see a shiny black Mercedes parked on the side of the road. Slowly, out stepped a guy in dark shades, long black overcoat with a slight Mediterranean look.

‘Roberto Ryan… please follow me in zis car. We will be traveling quickly down some country lanes. Please turn off your GPS as you will not be needing that.’ As he smiled, the diamond in his tooth caught the light with a blinding flash.

I felt a bead of sweat, just the one, form on my forehead before trickling down the side of my face, gulped and followed the car down the lanes.

‘What am I doing?’ I said to myself as the car sped off and I followed…..

Ok – so some of that may be exaggeration. but today I did meet up at Junction 7 and was led off into a country estate where the Warham Fellowship, a rural fresh expression of church, meets.

Today was an exciting culmination of months of talking of planning as I met with Gordon and John. The Warham Trust and YFC are trying something new – with not a little risk!! There is a desire to establish a Basingstoke YFC and so the trust has found a good salary for 2 years to employ a youth worker that will develop the youth ministry with Warham, while working with local churches to establish Basingstoke YFC. Within 2 years we would hope to see a YFC centre planted in Basingstoke.

This is a unique and incredibly exciting opportunity. To have the backing to start something like this would be a great opportunity for the right person.The advert will be in Youth Work magazine but you can see it earlier here. If interested the closing date for applications is early January!