My Connect Year

So at the start of September we had the first Connect training days down in Barston, South of Birmingham. We stayed in a little building next to an old church. There are 8 Connect workers working around Britain this year and this was our first opportunity to meet each other. You can read a little bit about what we all hope to get from the coming year here. The two Connect co-ordinators this year are Phil Boydell and Josh Brown. We were also joined by Josh’s lovely wife Nat and their little boy Samuel.

It was really fun to meet up with everyone and despite the early drive down from Scotland (I had to get up at 5.30am!!) it was lots of fun!  The various seminars(?) were really good and the thorough Bible study we had prepared was really excellent.  One of the main verses Phil talked about was 2 Tim 2:2 which is; “and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”

After the Connect training days we all packed up and travelled over to the Wirral for the Navigators Student Reps Forum.  This was a gathering of people working in student ministry in some sort of leadership role.  It was really good to meet some of the other people working in student ministry and feel their support for those of us doing the Connect programme.  We also got to play a bit of football which of course means it was a successful weekend!

Dave