CYM Community Week (or been there, done that, got the hoodie)

Returned yesterday from the CYM community (read induction) week at Oxford Brookes, with my brand new patented CYM hoodie – which is beautiful by the way ;-).

The week was amazing – got to meet all the guys starting the course this year across the country and got to know the guys from Bristol I'm going to be studying with really well over the course of the week. Also met the face of Careforce from last year, Ceri, who's starting the course at the Oxford centre. Had our first lectures, which were mostly introductions to different parts of the course, although we had a gruelling three-and-a-half, maybe four hours of "Safeguarding" – which the new buzz word for Child Protection. Still I guess that stuff's useful to know before we start, even if it was a little hard-going.

Just put up some stuff in the new "reflect" section on the Lab site – reflecting on some of what we thought about last Sunday – check it out at thelabnewport.org and click reflect on the right-hand side.

Going to pop in at Newport Uni tomorrow to chat to some of the new students coming in, help them out with bags, and stuff with the CU and Justin (we're representing the chaplaincy I think). And then we're doing "big" worship at the Lab tomorrow night and talking some more about what we're going to be up to this Autumn.

J.

[PS – if you're from Bristol CYM: I feel so guilty about that new alarm clock sat on the side, but it just looks so good… ;-)]