Year of the Olympics
I've been thinking about this being the year of the Olympics and how each one of us is called to run the race of life. Paula Radcliffe, the Marathan world record holder, was running once in the Athens Olympics in 2004 when she collapsed exhausted by the roadside three miles from the finishing line. Do you sometimes feel like that? I know I do. Paula's family, and husband picked her up and took her to hospital. She recovered to run again.
This is a year when we have the opportunity to serve our communities, despite the way we may feel: disqualified, tired, weary, apathetic, or even I can't be bothered! Let's get up and run again.
We at ROC have just come back from an amazing trip to Glasgow. Meeting there with the Police, church leaders and people who all want communities to thrive. ROC Scotland is on its way and I am so excited. They want to tartanise the logo...can't wait to see that! One of the big challenges we face is re-thinking what the church has to offer. Let's try to be open minded and try some new things. If that doesn't work we'll go back to what wasn't working before, as I once heard said by Pastor Dary Northrop from Timberline Church in the States. A bit tongue in cheek but let's face it not all our church projects have worked otherwise we'd be a lot further on than we are.
Following the trip to Glasgow, the week got even better: on Friday I was honoured to spend the whole morning with Wendy Beech-Ward, Director of Spring Harvest. We were doing quite a lot of dreaming about what could be! Spring Harvest is taking a bold theme this year; Church Actually..what could we do if we really seek to get our heads and hearts in gear?
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Jennie Cloherty, 24/01/2012 |
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