During the Week

On Monday (6th June) I went to the fourth and final part of the course on Acts. It has been an enjoyable course, with lots of helpful ideas coming from various people, especially the Catholic lady. When we looked at a part where Paul gives his testimony, I was asked whether we have people giving testimonies in the Baptist church. I said we did, especially at baptismal services, “where people talk about why they are being baptised, how they met Jesus and what he means to them.” One lady was horrified at my phrase ‘how they met Jesus’… “I haven’t met Jesus!” she said. “Who meets Jesus these days???”

On Tuesday (7th June) I spent most of the day helping to load all John and Pauline’s worldly goods into two small self-drive vans. Whenever I do something like that I am always so glad I am not a removal man by trade!

On Wednesday (8th June) I dropped some children off at Bethel for ‘Roundabout’ then sat in the car and listened to a CD from New Wine 2007, which included a comment that “signs and wonders occur on the border between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the enemy.”
I need to think further about that one. It fits with something I heard someone say a while ago – someone who says he is not really a dispensationalist, but nevertheless thinks that signs and wonders are for pioneering church-planting situations.

Thursday (9th June) began with a Governors’ Committee meeting, and was followed by a trip along Route 47. This is the northern part of the Celtic Trail between Swansea and Chepstow (I only rode a small part of it!) It is more ‘challenging’ than Route 4 which goes further south. I rode the part from Penallta Park near Ystrad Mynach over the Hengoed Viaduct to Cwmfelinfach in the Sirhowy Country Park. Nice one – about 16 miles there and back.