The 'Walk in the Park' event went very well, alongside activities already mentioned face painting and an invitation to play a giant 'Jenga' style game went down very well. Good opportunity for positive, friendly and participative visibility in the community.

In other areas it looks like there will be some good opportunities to work together with other churches here in the future and some new moves into different styles of worship and work together.

Course
New reading list have come through for the next phase in my course and I am already feeling strongly at assumptions that jar with my own current thinking (or assumptions!). I look forward to struggling to untangle and work through issues in ministry and mission; I was looking for contrary ideas and opinions to the direction my dissertation was looking like going looks like I might find some!

Summer
The summer is going to give me more of a chance to work on some creative projects in preparation for September (including some experimentation in blogging) but I am also hoping for some time for more in depth reflection. I have been in this appointment for nearly a year, mostly information gathering and networking, a number of new ventures look like they might be beginning to form; care is needed not to initiate stuff that won't be able to stand without me and to build in and encourage corporate sense of shared and developing ownership and responsibility. It is so easy just by the way you do things to shut out creativity and initiative in others. The how is even more important than the what.