Friday 11 September 2009

Latest Courses


The last couple of weeks I've been working on a series of studies for ICP on spiritual gifts. Next Sunday, 20th, is Welcome Sunday here as the new academic and church year starts. For the following four weeks we are hoping and praying that as many people as possible will follow this study so that they come to understand what their gifts are and begin to see where they can use them. At the end of the study, we will be holding a Missions and Ministry Sunday with various opportunities for service available as we encourage everyone to get involved in the task sharing the message of the gospel. The studies are available for download from the Study Centre website (http://sites.google.com/site/icpstudycentre/) for anyone who is interested.
We are also about to start two other courses. On Monday evenings, we will be running the "How to Read.." course that we first ran at ICP in the spring. This is open to people from churches all over Prague, please do pray for a good number of people to be involved. this starts the first Monday evening in October. On Sunday mornings, we will be starting a course called "Introduction to the Old Testament" which is exactly what it says!! I am working on the study booklet for that and we begin on September 27th. The full study booklet for "How to Read..." is available from the website as is a short information leaflet on the OT course.
We do appreciate your prayers for these courses, that the right people will attend and that they will be encouraged and built up in their faith.

Thursday 3 September 2009

Web Site

I've spent some time over the last couple of days putting together a basic website for the Study Centre. Not got our own domain yet, so it can be found on Google sites at http://sites.google.com/site/icpstudycentre/.

Wednesday 2 September 2009

Family


Rob and Lucy came back from their six months in India safe and sound and seem to have thoroughly enjoyed their time there. Only a few days after they got back to Exeter, they and Kristina and Jon came out to stay. It was great to see them all, the first time we had been together as a family since the beginning of January.
It was our 25th wedding anniversary in July, so we all celebrated that - together with Trev and Ali and my mum and dad. Lovely meal in a hotel on Old Town Square in Prague.
Soon after they went home, Dorit and I drove up to Denmark to spend a week with Dorit's family to celebrate her mum's 70th birthday.
Celebrations of one kind or another all over the place!! Being on the continent makes travelling so much easier. Denmark is only 10 hours away by car, without having to worry about ferry or flight times. though most of the German motorway system appears to have metamorphosed into one large construction site.
It was good to be with everyone, and great to get a few days break before starting the new church year.

Finally...... a blog!


Apologies for the length of time it has been since I last posted anything here. No real excuse, I'm afraid. Life just goes on and suddenly four months have passed.
So, a quick update.
The first Study Centre course finished back in June and I think it went quite well. We had 6 people who went through the whole course - which seeing as it started at 9 am on a Sunday morning wasn't bad!!
We also held our first seminar in July. This was run by Bill Miller who is a member at ICP and was on building trust in leadership. Not as many came to that as we had hoped, but that may have been because it was held after schools had broken up so a lot of people were already on holiday.
Otherwise, the time last term was taken up with preparing for the course and getting materials together for the ones we are holding in the autumn.
Thank you for your prayers over this time, we really do appreciate them.