21st April Out with the old and in with the new

Today instead of having my usual team talk here in the NNE circuit I ventured 10 miles north to spend a couple of hours getting to know the staff team from my new circuit. A change from 4 presbyters, two deacons, two lay workers and a student deacon to just three presbyters but in many ways it made a pleasant change. Less voices means more time to actually chat to / with each other and about things that are important rather than get distracted down multiple rabbit holes of little significance.

With less than three months to go it definitly feels as if I am treading water now. There are things to punctuate the next 90 days, quizes, testimony services and ordinations to attend, care home services and bible studies being the most obvious. Plus leaving as much as I can in reasonable order before I vacate, for I will be too close to not be contactable.

Five new churches will take some time to both get to know / used too and also to juggle especially given the geographical spread. What I am hoping is that  I can have 'days' allocated to specific churches / areas of the circuit to stop me wasting most of my day either travelling on sat in a traffic jam on the A38.

Whether the grass is greener remains to be seen just so long as it is still green. 

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