Just come home from our church weekend away and it was a blast! The youth, with whom we spent most of our time with, were great fun and it was nice to catch up with people. Favourite moments? The pub quiz, watching megs and steve play in the swimming pool, watching two of the young people get stuck into ministry time, and knowing that my baby Joe was much loved by all who cuddled him.

We spent every session with the youth looking at Romans 12 and i think they enjoyed it. We had planned lots of activities hoping to fill the time but we largely just ended up chatting. It's funny but steve and i have done a bit of a role reversal. Usually it would have been me doing most of the talking, but this time Steve pretty much led the group and the discussions (with me chipping in when i felt we needed to get back on the point), and the guys seemed to really listen to him.

It feels like we've started where we left off with the guys, and are really feeling the benefit of our time off (me being far more chilled out for a start). I'm reallly looking forward to building on what we established in the homegroup - exciting times ahead!