Am now two weeks into my placement in Stevenage and loving it!
Here's just some of the things I have attended in some way, shape or form:
Weekly girl's small group
Weekly youth club callled Lounge
Sunday mornings spent with GACC
Sunday evening's spent at Revive
Twinkler's tot's group
Church member's meetings
Elder's and Deacon's meeting
Meeting with Senior Pastor about leadership, church planting and creative homiletics
Meetings with the Youth Pastor about youth work and all kinds of other stuff
Meetings with the Associate Pastor about church planting, leadership, her journey into ministry and the whole 'woman thing' (so grateful to her for that!)
Social action in the Great Ashby community
Weekly staff meeting
Reading / reflecting / writing
Discussions on what makes a Baptist baptist, principles and what we can pick up or drop
Loads of social stuff (ok, so thats not strictly placement time!)
Which has all meant lots of talking, praying, coffee drinking and eating ... I am one happy girl!!!
Am enjoying being here and have received such a warm welcome. Having time to read and reflect has been slightly unusual as normally that is done as and when there is time - am so grateful though to have that time here. Being able to share with people not only passionate about women being in ministry, but who are also women(!) is a great source of encouragement for me. Often it can feel as if there are no role models and you're walking the journey alone in some respects. Here I am beginning to see that is not so much the case, though perhaps as suggested some constructive anger about the state of things is needed.
Have read through an old Whitley Lecture this week S lent me, all about the history of women in Baptist ministry in the England (though there are some references to Scotland) and what it means to talk of 'women and ministry' today. All of this is really helpful in feeding into my continuing journey, as well as shaping my theology. So off I go now to do some more reading, reflecting ... oh and of course no coffee drinking!!!
2 comments:
Nice to see the deeper side of Mo still drinks coffee! lol
It's how I get through work... what can I say.
Most meetings here have coffee as a feature, think Jesus would be happy. Though they've taken to feeding me decaff which is a somewhat strange and cruel thing to do to me really, lol!
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