I’ve spent this year as a ‘leadership parish assistant’ for G2. So far it has been a really interesting mix of writing blogs, preparing talks, organising discussion evenings and weekends away, spending time with new people and spending time reading and improving my knowledge both of the Bible and leadership.
Next week I will be heading down to London to attend a national conference about leadership. I am really looking forward to hearing insights on leadership from world class leaders on what great leadership consists of. [Read more here]
Steve, Kiera and Ivy are excited to announce the arrival their baby boy of Rowan William Ashew
Born on Sunday 6th May at 8.10pm in York Hospital.
Weighing in at just over 8lbs!
A few weeks ago our Cluster met for a fantastic meat related evening. We had sausage tasting from some of the best butchers in York, pickle trays sausage quizzes, sausage games and live music. After three hours of devouring over fifteen kinds of sausages, we were all left full to the brim with meat.
What was really exciting though, was the sense of community around that evening. It was so enjoyable just to be around so many different kinds of people. Churches have the habit of bringing together seemingly unlikely combinations of people- and our Cluster seems to reflect that value. But it was so exciting to see families, couples, students, young people, older people all coming together and enjoying the taste of good old Yorkshire Sausages. [Read more here]
This year is an exciting year. 2012. The Olympics in London and the Queen’s jubilee are just two things that are happening this year that might not happen again for a serious amount of time. They are celebrations. Exciting things, good things that are happening all around us, everywhere we turn.
The Jubilee is something I am particularly excited about, and following the Queen’s recent trip up North I have been thinking about it a lot… [Read more here]
What do you let preach at you? Everything has a message to tell us. Whether it is: “buy really strong cheese” “drink cheap larger” “buy clothes from Marks and Spencer’s” “Live more indulgently”. Whether we realise it or not- there are messages all around us. On the bus, on the side of cars, on our television, on our clothes, in the street. It is impossible to escape some sort of message or worldview. And everyone is preaching something. The genre of preaching in 21st Century Britain, is, on the large part, not from the pulpit but it is the television advert, the billboard, the TV show. We live in an era of message saturation. Preaching is everywhere. [Read more here]
