After HT we heard that we are moving away from this area, so I’ve been rather pre-occupied with buying and selling houses for my mother who needs to come with us and visiting the new church, as well as worrying about how to write up a flopped emerging church assignment, contemplating an assignment on holiness, and also try to make a decision on what my dissertation might be about (considering I’m supposed to be writing some sort of detailed plan on it in 4 weeks deciding what it will be about would be really helpful). I am feeling very stressed!
All of which has meant that I did not chase up the local newspaper that promised to do an article on geocaching and the formation of a geocaching club for the ‘live healthily’ day that occurred today at our local high school. The reporter had thought it would be a good ‘nail’ to hang the advertising for the health day on, but obviously not that good, as I heard nothing from him, despite his interest in geocaching being used on both ‘Numbers’ and ‘CSI’.
Anyway, I took along an advert for geocaching to encourage people to get outdoors and get fit, with the intention of offering the opportunity to do a few geocaches together as a taster, but of course the wind blew and it rained, so that didn’t happen. So much for an outdoor emerging church! However, I
did speak to several families about geocaching, and they seemed interested, but I lacked heart in pressing them to join a group which I knew would not run as soon as I leave in 2 months time.I feel dis-heartened because it’s such a great communal activity for groups of people, but it does rely on good weather to at least get started, hence my urge to get started on the ‘church/assignment’ as soon as possible last year. I suppose if I’d had a separate stall inside the building and actually attempted to get contact details to form a group when the weather improved, it might have been a better approach. As it was, it was just an aside from the drugs and alcohol demos and experiments we were doing on the Red Bus youth project that I was on.
Reading people’s activities that are working, I see that they are generally having to provide structure for each of their sessions. I was hoping to have a more ad hoc approach if I’d ever got anyone other than converted friends to go out with me.
Ah well, live and learn …
