A few more photos from the second week of New Wine

Second week at New Wine

First night of the second week at New Wine. The exhibition (called the Marketplace) has been really busy this evening, so if that's a measure of the week to come we'll have a busy week. Perhaps people came in to cool off from the hot day or maybe it was the call to 'do something risky for God' in the main meeting that brought the punters in. Lots of interest in the jobs board.

A few photos of our mission resource stand

First week at New Wine

We're approaching the end of our first week of running the mission resource area at New Wine conference. We have a 'jobs board' with 60 or so individual mission opportunities posted on it (from a variety of mission organisations), two literature stands with 24 different resource sheets and a couple of laptops with Internet access.

It's been a good week - out of the 12,000 or so delegates on site we've seen lots of people with a whole range of questions about mission and several obvious 'divine appointments'. One example from today ... a young lady came up and said 'You probably haven't got anything suitable for me - I'm a Mental Health Therapist and have a calling to work in Cambodia'. My co-worker looked through the vacancies on the OSCAR website and saw a job looking for a 'Mental Health Therapist for Cambodia!'. The organisation in question have an exhibition stand just 10 metres from us, so the young lady went and had a long chat with their representative. I talked with the rep earlier this evening and he said that he'd been praying during the last week for such a person and was just amazed when she showed up. It looks like she'll be an excellent candidate for the position. Praise God!

Personally, I love this stuff and, with all the online activity that I do throughout the year, really enjoy these weeks of helping people 'face-to-face'. It's hard work but very rewarding.

Mains water returns to Gloucester

Just to update you ... I hear from my wife that mains water returned to Gloucester yesterday, though it's contaminated and will remain so for a few weeks (so they say). Which means that we can't use it for drinking during that time. Things can only get better ...