Fort Rockay Roolz

Had an awesome weekend at Fort Rocky near Kidderminster with the youth group at St. Paul's. Fort Rocky's a YFC thang with loads of outward bounds and sports and stuff, as well as some good old fashioned, high energy, "Jesus is the answer" evangelism. We took a group of six between the ages of 11 and 14 (I think) – definitely the best behaved, wonderful young people I've ever been anywhere with – they were amazing. It was great to just get to know them and have some fun, and especially to take my mind off Thursday. I loved every minute of it.

Was talking to Justin earlier about how "modern" the YFC approach was (as opposed to "post-modern") but rather than being kind-of scathing actually I realised that over the weekend I just grew this tremendous amount of respect for what they do and how good they are at it. And then on the Saturday night they showed a really cool verging-on-emerging powerpoint with Coldplay – Fix You in the background which was absolutely amazing.

We chatted a bit about footwashing at the Lab last night as the second half of our intro to the new series – hopefully tomorrow I'll get round to posting up a "reflect"-ion on it on the Lab website. Haven't gotten round to it yet – spent today slogging away to get my first fieldwork journal done, which I'm pretty happy with – I think I gave it my best shot, although I'm sure my tutor will be able to pick a fair few holes in it come Wednesday when we sit down to talk about it.

Got loads of little jobs to do (and some slightly bigger ones) so I've made my first ever list of jobs… I even prioritized and everything… just like they told us to in the time management lecture on the CYM residential…

Had some random theological thought going through my head before, but it's totally gone…

If it comes back to me then maybe those thoughts will make it up here before they run off again.