While away I caught up with 2 great people.

I met Martin Green, a youth and community worker at the Sanctury Church in Bristol. The Sanctuary meets in a converted cinema and Martin is into street dance and has acived some exciting stuff with the community reaching 140 young people through a dnce session. We met to chat about the possibility of a Bristol YFC. We got quite excited about the possibilities and he is going to look to see if others may have a similar vision. If you are in the Bristol area and share a desire to see some good missional work reaching the young people of Bristol get in touch with Martin.

On Thursday it was great to be able to spend 90 minutes and hear Michael Volland’s story of being an ordained Pioneer Minister working out of Gloucester Cathedral. There is some exciting authentic stuff here and Michael shared some great lessons from his experience which was great to hear. I have been following Michael’s blog for a little while and was keen to meet up and hear how things worked behind the scenes. The more I think about a pioneering role, the more I am thinking that being based, and accountable to, the cathedral makes a lot of sense and is probably something that should be carefully looked at.

Martin, Michael – thanks for giving up your time to share your stories.