I made a couple of great journey’s yesterday and I guess you can say that although the visits I made were to 2 of our centres they are at very different stages of their journeys.

First I met up with Dave who has been director of Solent YFC since January. He is right at the start of his journey as is the centre as it looks to relaunch on June 6th. As I sat and chatted with Dave we considered ways of increasing capacity and it was exciting to see what Dave has already done and the plans he has for the next few months. He has a massive task i needing to get more people on board and more finance coming in to enable the centre to fulfill its mission. If you are in the area and can support Solent YFC please get in touch.

I then took a trip up the A3 to visit Oxygen in Kingston and join them for the launch event of their 2008-12 strategic plan. Again, it was a privilege to spend time with Richard, Debbie, Kate, Carol and the rest of the team. Richard spoke of the journey Oxygen had been on and it really is stunning to see how diverse and excellent this centre has become in the last 6 years. Rich spoke of the need to go deeper, better and wider which was quite powerful and seemed to resonate with the 120 or so people that were there on the night. (Impressive in itself but even more so when you realise they had around 50 church leader type people for a similar meeting at breakfast and another 70 or so at lunchtime from the police, local authority, MP’s etc).

As I journeyed home I could not help but reflect on how great and wonderfully diverse God is!