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During last week 3 different groups met to look at the progress we are making as a Church. On Monday evening the Church Life committee met and discussed the different events in the life of the Church. We are reminded at times like these of the vast array of different activities reaching large numbers of different people. Perhaps we catch a bit of a glimpse of the real work that we do as a Church. Two particular topics were the work of Operation New Look, which we are holding a Vision day for this coming Saturday. This can be an exciting and challenging year for us as a Church and may well equip us to face the next 25 years. In much the same way there was a discussion about the use of the premises and notice boards in particular since the Playgroup has re-located from our premises. Whilst this is disappointing, because we have enjoyed the links we have had for some considerable time, it also gives us an opportunity to re-focus.

On Wednesday evening we had a meeting of the workers with children and young people and from a quite depressing starting point, where people felt disillusioned and frustrated with the current state of work, we moved on to a point of reviewing all the work we do and came up with two new initiatives to progress the work we do with teenagers and with our younger children. These initiatives are very much in their early stages at the moment and we need the agreement of the Church Council before we can progress any further, but the meeting ended on quite a positive note!

Friday evening was the turn of the Property Committee and whilst some would see business issues like this as being far less exciting than some of the other things we get involved in, we must remember that we can only do some of the mission work if our building is maintained in good order. One of our main concerns at the moment is that young people have broken down the fence at the back of the Church and are using the Car-Park as a shortcut between Cromwell Close and Tesco’s. This doesn’t particularly cause us a problem, but some of the young lads are quite abusive and we have started to experience vandalism. Apart from this, we need to be cautious where rights of way are involved, so we feel it best to replace the existing fence with something more robust. Hopefully this work will be completed during June.

A final apology for the Bulletin being late over the last couple of weeks. I have been having problems with my computer, which are now hopefully resolved. Things have been made worse by me spilling a mug of tea over my keyboard, resulting in sticking keys (not to be recommended!!) and everything taking twice as long to do. Hopefully we should be back to normal next week.