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I attended a very lively and positive meeting of our Vineyard group. Mike who presides over the Bath area and is a trainer to new churches, gave us a talk which included the problems that the movement went though during Covid, and the revised challenges of what God had shown him to be necessary. The theme was 'Making Jesus Known'. He spoke with great conviction and clarity. I was motivated to...

This morning was committee time. By that I mean that our Allotment Association of which I was chair met to discuss the condition of each plot and whether 'notice of dirty plot' letters needed to be sent. At 10 am the four of us gathered and walked up and down the 64 plots discussing each one and deciding on the need to reprimand or more like it advise the tenant that something needed to be done....

I decided to take the advice of my friend who told me to take a day off from time to time away from my responsibilities. So, there is no time like the present. As it happens I had a number of reasons for visiting Frome, one of which was to see my acupuncturist for a treatment. Over the years I've been to see a number of therapists and I can say that the most important thing apart from competence...

Awoke to snow, about two inches of it. The first of the season.  I must rise as I have to take my car for its annual MOT (certificate of roadworthiness). I left at about 9am to avoid the inevitable traffic jams from children being delivered to their school, and dropped my car off at fourth Avenue Motors. As I walked away from delivering my car I noticed about 6 workers repacking Amazon packages...

Fear and trust do not go together. Fear and honesty do not go together Fear and courage do not go together I was motivated to write on this topic after an excellent fellowship meeting last evening with a group of Christians.  We were invited together to hear about the formation of the movement, The Vineyard'.  It started in America and spread to the UK. There are now 120 branches of this...

I went along to my Vineyard meeting at the Methodist Church, Radstock. Today being the first Sunday of the month,  time is spent on doing good works. This time we were asked to go round the streets giving a bunch of daffodils to passers-by and to appropriately ask them about their faith. We were to tell people that we were with the local church and that we would like to pray for them. I am quite...