Light-blue t-shirts, soul survivor on tour and angry whoppers

(But not necessarily in that order)

Just got back from the Soul Survivor roadshow in Cardiff – and from seeing my little brother, who'd driven down with a minibus full of guys from my home church – St Mike's. He came straight from school so he was even still in his school uniform – my old school uniform. Interesting he went for the light blue tee though, rather than my preferred white.

As for the roadshow itself, it was alright. I think Soul Survivor's lost most of its magic for me now though – the simple worship-talk-worship format seems a little bit old and tired, and I don't quite adore Mike Pilavachi as much as I used to (sorry Mike!). And with no time for ministry or anything afterwards tonight, it felt a little bit like it was all over too soon.

On the plus side, Andy Hawthorne from the Message spoke pretty well and Mike and Andy did a good job of enthusing everyone about Hope 2008 – which I'd seen around but wasn't actually 100% sure what it's about. I'm still not sure really what's happening about it – but I now know that that's because Hope is about us serving our communities in ways that help them, and so it's up to us to decide. It's definitely something to discuss over our first couple of Lab Team meetings (Yay!)

As always the issue is in getting the organisation sorted – but hopefully we'll be able to partner up and do some stuff – especially given it's the kind of stuff that we're looking to be doing as the Lab anyway.

Got to go for a burger with everyone afterwards and have a good chat with David (my lil bro).  Tried out the infamous Angry Whopper (seen the advert?), which was pretty sweet with jalapenos and onions and stuff. Was really sad to say goodbye, but the whole family's coming down next weekend so I'll get to spend some more time with them all then.

Right, was going to watch Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, but it's kinda late so I guess I should get some sleep. I know it's supposed to be pretty disappointing but it caught my eye on the discount shelf in WHSmith so I thought I'd see for myself.