So…my essay is finished and printed, sundays service is planned and sermon outlined…just need to edit a lot of video and finish planning the sermon…I’m in London tomorrow and thursday and have house group tomorrow evening so I guess I’m left with thursday evening and train journey’s to plan! Fun! However thursday evening I’m out   Read More …

I was talking to Jo the other day and she needed a description of what she did at Spring Harvest on the 11-14′s team…I wrote a job description; ‘Your role will primarily be to lead and facilitate discussion in a designated small group (20) of young people who will have you assigned as their group   Read More …

and I’m sure most of use suffer from this one… (taken from postsecret.com)

but there’s too much of it to do and too little time so I shall merely state… ‘Feel my annoyance…grrr Oasis…’

I’m sure some of you already know this but this article on the BBC News Site is brilliant! Basically Tesco have planning permission to build a store and to do this they need to demolish some houses, one of the ladies however who owns a house there has now applied for planning permission to build   Read More …

The title says it all…or rather quotes the poster currently in our display board which sits outside of church, as I walk home from the station I tend to glance to see what posters we have (I keep meaning to add some that actually advertise church events!) and one of the posters currently reads in   Read More …

Continuing with my desparate hunt for evidence for my portfolio I asked the young people at my youth group last night to write nice things about me…or rather write things. I’ve just read through them now and some are really lovely…my favourite comment so far however is; ‘he almost has a sense of humour’ Other   Read More …

I apreciate no readers with the exception of Gareth will truly apreciate this, but using a little programme called ‘VirtualBox’ which is a freebie I now have the ability to run Windows XP within my OS X on my Mac. This means that if I have the urge to play a windows game it can   Read More …

Tonight I led worship at church on acoustic guitar…usually I lead on electric, infact this is only the 3rd time I’ve used acoustic, and I don’t think God likes it and here’s why The first time I played acoustic at church the strap snapped The second time I played acoustic at church the strap also   Read More …

‘The one time a blogger picks up his pen he has to think carefully about how to use this unusual item’

I’m having a bit of an Oasis portfolio day today and a day of work wouldn’t be complete without background music! Most readers will know for a few months now I’ve been listening to my itunes A to Z, it’s been a crazy adventure so far…I’ve had the chance to listen to some awesome music   Read More …

Hopefully this post will represent the end of Mark the silent blogger and be the start of me blogging a bit more regually…It’s been a manic few weeks with so much going on, I’ve been all over country including Peterborough, Minehead, Sheffield and Great Yarmouth (a couple of times!) so life’s been a bit crazy.   Read More …