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Date: 24 October 2005 15:54:44
Following a week spent "working from home", a definite contradiction in terms, I have now returned to the fray.
Today has gone really well, so far. A 2 hour conference call/training session did not happen. The person organising didn't turn up for work. Bearing in mind that "attendence" for training is "mandatory" (our new American MD's words), this does not bode well. The worse thing is that they training us on our new company IT system. The fact we've been using it for 15 months, untrained, doesn't seem to register.
I've also been giving considerable thought to our ethical living project. Following Greenbelt we decided to join the Year of Living Generously project. Most loyal readers will believe that the term "generous" and me are mutually exclusive. Well all I can say is...... Yah boo sucks!!!!!!! What do you know?
Thinking about it has made me realise that some things do not seem to go together. How can you shop locally and support fairtrade in countries overseas? If food/product miles are such a problem, won't buying locally put me out of a job? After all, us logistics professionals rely on people buying and selling overseas.
I'm also giving thought to next Sunday's sermon.
I'm quite looking forward to telling people how we need to live our lives in a more Christian way. One that will show people we encounter that Jesus is living through us. Then the thought struck me that we also need to shoe the community around church this as well.
Now we come up against the challenges of an ageing congregation and very few people with enough time to spare to give to churchwork. This is the biggest obstacle that our church has faced throughout my 30 years as a member. We have, finally, got more groups up and running but we all know that we have gaps that need to be filled.
As we are going to celebrate our 50th anniversary next year, we are going to undertake a review of where we are and where we want to be. I'm just hoping that we'll get the membership interested enough to provide feedback.
If anyone out there fancies a the job of "mystery shopping" our church do let me know. It would be nice to hear what others think of our little fellowship.
Are we really as welcoming as we think? Do we seem to be stuck in a rut we can't get out of? How can our membership reflect the demograhic of our local council estate?
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