The lunchtime prayer meeting in Woking decided to run a
lunchtime Alpha course, which proved very
successful. New people came along who had not
attended the 'normal' prayer meetings, including a number of
people who were either not Christians or who were very unsure
about their faith.
It was fascinating to see Alpha at work after hearing so much
from other people about it. The format worked for a
wide range of people, whatever one might think about the
content.
Paul continued to maintain a couple of web sites, along with
our family site. The other two are for Westborough
URC and Bracknell Swim and Sauna. This involved very
little work, but provided quite a bit of interesting contact
with people from across the world, and stimulated a number of
email conversations. It's a fascinating way to meet
people!
The main new venture on our web site is the 'Interactive
Gospel' - which was finished in outline by the end of 1999,
although filling in the gaps will take a lot more work.
Before leaving Westborough, Paul & Sue signed up for a
'Learning to Care' course. Unfortunately, it
incolved a great deal more work than we had
anticipated. We thought we were agreeing to one
evening a week, but it also involved reading and answering
questions in a work book almost every day. Sue
could not manage the time commitment, but Paul saw it through
to the end.
The course was a fascinating combination of the very useful,
the very obvious, and (in some cases) the fairly
dangerous. We produced quite a list of serious
issues and concerns about the content of the course, which
Pastor David said he would attempt to feed back, but we have
heard nothing on the subject since the course finished.
Also in April, we went to see 'Bye-bye Birdie' - another
production Phil Buckley was in, and again it was very impressive
and enjoyable. This was the second performance we
had been to in the Ben Travers theatre at charterhouse
school.