I’ve learned that the best time to think about any regular or annual event is straight after the last one, while the successes and lessons are fresh in your mind.
I made awesome notes about next Advent and Christmas at West last December, for example, and now we have our good friend Robyn Mellar-Smith here as [...]
45 Weeks Till…
February 8th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: camp · community life · Kids · New Wine · New Year · summer holidays
Rocks in the Jar 1
January 9th, 2010 1 Comment
In their book First Things First Stephen R Covey, A Roger Merrill and Rebecca R Merrill tell a story that has become part of our life at West. We’ve done the rocks-in-the-jar demo several times since January 2009 and it has become a significant image for lots of us.
If you don’t know what this is [...]
Tags: Books · discipleship · New Year · Pastor's Blog · priorities · rocks in the jar · time use
Walking into a New Year
January 6th, 2010 2 Comments
Joyce Rupp is an international treasure.
On Sunday at West we used a short reflection on starting a new year with God, extracted from Joyce Rupp’s ‘The Road of Life’ [forgot to say: it's in a book called May I Have this Dance?, which Tracey owns and can lend]. The piece I read out is here [...]
Tags: hope · Joyce Rupp · New Year · reflection · Spirituality