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Catching up
Having been back from Bosnia a couple of weeks, our placements have now all kicked in, the students have returned and our own personal teaching has begun. It’s like we’ve never been away – well almost! Saturday morning took us to SBS with Mark teaching us on 1 Corinthians 11 and a guest speaker, Bob Fyall, enlightening us on the Song of Songs. It was excellent and a great thing to finally understand (at least a little bit) what the Song of Songs is about.
It’s great to catch up with people that we haven’t seen for weeks (mainly the students who have been away for 5 weeks) and to be back serving the community and church at all our various placements. I think everyone has enjoyed getting back into the swing of things and there have been some really encouraging stories. This week at Interact we welcomed the Japanese students who have come to study English at Teikyo University. Eighteen of us went on a tour/walk around Durham which concluded by having a relaxing drink in a local pub - their first experience of a British pub. We look forward to this week as they said they would bring friends to our chocolate fondue party! Yum Yum! As well as Interact, Cu’s have started up, coffee at the station is back on, the work at Aquilla continues, as does the youth club at Crook – and now it’s nice weather the team there assure me that it’s hard work to play football in the sunshine! ; )
Our teaching began this week, with Mark introducing us to the fascinating book (and I’m not being sarcastic) that is Revelation. I can’t wait to get stuck into this with all it’s amazing imagery and symbolism. We also have started the long anticipated teaching with Melody Briggs on Thursday who for 6 weeks will give us a taste (quite literally) of the church through History. This week we began with the Early Church, sharing in their style of worship, the readings, prayers and meal that their services would have contained when they met together. It was a lot of fun and quite insightful!
As well as all this, Just 10 (an event which occurs every Tuesday evening in Gateshead with J. John who talks through one commandment a week for ten weeks) has begun. It’s really exciting to see a tent full of 6000 people coming to hear J John speak on the 10th commandment. Please pray for this event, that people would begin to get a glimpse of who God is and come to know him.
So it’s the end of the Intern log for this week, please pray for continued energy and enthusiasm as we continue in all the things we do. Tune in next week to hear this weeks up and coming adventures. Xxx : )