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Date: 24 April 2005 14:38:35
Today at church I was talking to a lady who has been very kind to me in recent years and her and her husband aren't are well as they once were. I was saying a bit about my involvment with the chaplaincy at Swansea uni, and she said when she was my aged she was asked to join SCM (Student Christian Movement), but at this moment in time it only had 3 other members!!! She joined it and became part of the committee and had the job of expanding their membership. She wrote to all the first year students in a Methodist college, 19 in total. Only one person replied and joined SCM, all the rest joined the Methsoc (which was very big in those days), and she is now married to this person. I was excited to hear this news, because when I went to the SCM conference in Febuary, there were loads of people there. Its amazing to think it started off with just these 4 people. As you can imagine, I was keen to express my excitedness, but had to suppress it (its a bit like anger, really) because the churches AGM was starting - At which I managed to get my self elected on the church council as a congregational rep, dispite living in Swansea 80% of the year!! They did jokingly offer to contact my lecturers and pay travel expenses, so I could come to the meetings!
The actual service went well, several people commented that the bit I did at the beginning was good, which I was amazed at because we only practiced it once, about five minutes before we did it! I proudly wore my new Make Poverty History tshirt and consequently was asked to help run a Make Poverty History stall next Sunday in a local park at an International Festival.
I hope the links I have put in have worked. My sister (who is a computer geek) told me how to do it, so I'll blame her if they don't work. But will be very excited and happy if they do!
Grrrr, they didn't work, had to delete them. Will get back to my so called 'clever' sister and find out what the problem was.