It’s been in incredibly draining day, but a day at the end of which I feel I have made a difference and been a help to others.

I am a governor at a local secondary school who are having to restructure. Every day this week governors are interviewing most of the staff for jobs at the school. Today we started at 8.30 am and finished at 3.30. We interviewed 12 people for a variety of jobs.

Although the day was hard as we are constantly aware that we are dealing with peoples lives I felt a great privilege to ask questions and hear of peoples dreams and desires to work with, and enable young people to reach their full potential. The decisions today were hard because lots of people were obviously passionate for the work they do. Obviously with all interviews some will be disappointed as they will not be appointed – I wish that was not the case.

This evening I joined the trustees of Peninsula YFC who are a bunch of people that are also passionate for the young people of their area. Not a school this time, but a large rural area that is part of Medway. In September PYFC will be appointing their first worker and this is a dream come true for these people who have met every few weeks diligently, giving up time out of busy lives, sacrificing time for other to see their dream come true.

When Gemma starts in September it will be an exciting time as they see their vision, which I first heard from them nearly 3 years ago, become a reality. Even here, though, some will be disappointed as they see the vision go in exciting ways which are not the ways they thought it might go.

In both meetings today the key to ‘success’ has been dreaming and taking that difficult leap of faith and seeing what happens. There are no guarantees. With the step will come disappointment in various degrees, but with that step also comes a fresh insight, excitement and wonder at what God can achieve.