Today was the last day of practical projects of Love Gillingham. The Day 3 photos may be found here.

Looking back on my tea we have filled 12 massive skips in 3 days of ordinary rubbish that people have just allowed to accumulate over the years in their houses or back gardens. Last night we had 2 skips delivered to an estate ready for us to fill today. By 9am this morning, as I drove past to check they had been delivered, I discovered that the skips had already been filled. I guess this just showed how much of a need there is in the places we have been to help people get rid of the rubbish that the council won’t normally take.

The other teams working t=in retirement homes and running a drop in at the back of St Mark’s Church have had equally confirming experiences that the projects have been meeting a need – that need to be valued, given time, accepted, loved, supported and listened to.

This morning Melvyn, the pastor from Gillingham Methodist, spoke on finding God in the ordinary everyday stuff that we do. In years to come people will not look back and remember Love Gillingham – but we are making a difference, even though it may be a fleeting one, in the lives of individuals. Today people are happy because they ahve experienecd a little of the Kingdom of God.

I went away after finishing clearing the church with Jim after people had left with an interesting thought in my mind based on a popular Christian song. I don’t won’t to be a history maker. I don’t want people to look back and remember great things. I want ordinary people to see experience the love of Jesus in their ordinary lives in ordinary ways. This is going to be the only way that these people with ordinary lives doing ordinary things are ever going to believe that they can connect with an extraordinary God.