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As I previously mentioned this year Jo and myself headed to Greenbelt after the encouragement of a good friend and the temptation from Greenbelt of a free youth worker ticket paid off so on Friday we packed up the car and headed down to Cheltenham Racecourse. We arrived at around 12 and joined the queue [...]

So Jo and myself have got married, been on honeymoon, received all the wedding gifts, received some amazing photos which we’ve put in frames, written thank you cards and received our wedding video (on a complete tangent if you’re getting married avoid Clearview wedding videos in Caister at all costs…worst, most unprofessional video I’ve ever [...]

Yesterday as we boarded the ferry to journey back to France after a week’s honeymoon I purchased ‘The Sun’ in order to catch up with the news in a format that my 5 hours-worth-of-driving brain could handle and it wasn’t the ‘coming out’ of X-Factor flop Joe McElderry the caught my eye (although his coming [...]

This topic of this post has becoming very prominent in my thoughts in the last week and a half and whilst I think my thoughts in this blog would be served better with some specific examples it just isn’t appropriate to post them (if you’ve spoke to me recently or live in South Cave you [...]

Having been out last night, got in at half 2, watched the new Ashes to Ashes on iPlayer and then slept I didn’t awake until half 11 this morning…I crawled out of bed, went to the gym and now I’m sat at home typing this before heading out to Beverley for a couple of hours. [...]

All over the world today is Palm Sunday and thousands of Christians everywhere will have received a Palm Cross and read Luke 19 where we read about Jesus instructing His disciples to go off and find a donkey and bring it back followed by Jesus riding on this donkey with people all around praising him [...]

As a musician and Christian I am lucky to be part of the few of are able to be involved in the church worship band which is probably a good thing because otherwise I suspect the music would have driven me away! More and more often I’m finding that the Matt Redman that crops up [...]

Yesterday I managed to forget to blog but seeing as Sunday’s in lent don’t technically count today can count as yesterday! I had a few things I wanted to blog yesterday so I’ll pan them out over the next few days however last night I went to ‘South Cave’s Got Talent’ which was a fund-raiser [...]

I’m sure I’d blogged on this previously but a search of my blog seems to prove me wrong! I’ve spent much of today planning my second lesson on the Amish for the A level students tomorrow and one part of the Amish belief which I find myself agreeing with more and more is their belief [...]

Every so often as part of my role as schools worker for the Hunsley Christian Youth Trust I’m asked to speak at a church or event about the youth trust and tonight I was speaking at Welton Churches PCC (I escaped before all the usual PCC stuff began). Over the last few months I’ve managed [...]

Today I spent the day at Wydale hall on a youth and children’s workers retreat organised by the York Diocese which was really good. The last retreat I went on was when I was in Peterborough and CROPS organised a day out in the sticks with Paul Wilcox as a retreat and reflection day and [...]

Today’s post in my lent blogs is a blog I promised a while ago. Back in November I finally got around to buying a book called Amish Grace which was recommended by one of my lecturers at uni and although I started the book with excitement I slacked a little with it and eventually finished [...]

As many church-goers reading this blog will be aware it’s not just the high street hit by the ‘recession’ but churches have felt it too. During our last PCC meeting the intent of the diocese to have less clergy in each area was mentioned. Alongside this 40% of the clergy in the diocese of York [...]

As those of you who are my friend on Facebook or follow me on Twitter will have noticed the last 2 days tweets/status updates have revolved around heat and my lack of. I awoke yesterday morning colder than I had hoped to wake up and putting it down to my inability to tweak my heating [...]

In the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about the church and how trapped the majority of it has become. The format of church hasn’t changed majorly in the last 25 years at least…it certainly hasn’t changed in the 15 years of church I actually remember. Alongside this I’ve been pondering the topic of worship…I [...]