It was Sarah’s birthday yesterday and rather than but a present she wanted me to go with her to Bluewater so she could chose something (not a vote of confidence in my choice!) and then have a meal somewhere.

This we did, and it was great to just spend a few hours together with no real time constraints upon us. It was quite odd though to see lots of people shopping on a Saturday night and quite sad to think this was happening every Saturday night.

Bluewater needs a YFC worker! Maybe I should look into this. The number of teenagers just wondering around was amazing. This is a place where a skilled worker could possibly offer support to young people – not sure if I like the sound of Bluewater YFC though!

Sarah was excited about her present trip and Beth was excited as she heard that she has got her first choice school of Chatham Grammar for Girls. It’s been quite scary to see the stuff in thenews about children not being allocated places. This can’t be right and I hope we are never inthat situation here. Congratulations Beth!

After church today, where we ate together, we had good friends come round and demolished good coffee and good wine. Interesting that this months theme is ‘fellowship’ as I think I experienced good fellowship this afternoon, and rarely experience it of the same quality in church. Is it possible to experience fellowship in a group of hundreds of people, or can it only really be experienced in smaller groups that can have real opportunity to get to know each other?

Whatever … it was experienced this afternoon and I enjoyed it. How can we experience this more I wonder?