"youth conferance" oh dear oh dear

i don't think that the people who organised the youth confrance that i was at today have quite got the idea.
it was well dull is a word that would decribe it wrong is another word missleading another and inaproperate for young people.
the topic looked good conquoring your thoughts the sub points were good at the heart of all sin is a thought you had to think of doing something before you do it. went through negative things that can happen to make you think negative thoughts and different things that we have to avoid to keep our minds clean. yup it could have been brill.
but there was no oppurtuity for disscusion the young people including myself where made to sit and listen to this guy from singapour talk at them for three hours with at the end of each of his bit another guy getting up and going over the first guys points again arrrrrrrrrrg.
there was also some serouse problems with the theology that was being tort it may have been langwige barriors but at times it felt like our percher (couse thats all he could be described as) was saying god stops loving people when they sin! that we should be completely seprate from the world ie go into the christian bubble and never come out to talk to none christians and so forth.
at the breif time that was given for feedback questions no one spoke exsept a stupid old dude with a really stupid question about angles which was anwered really badly. clearly none of the young people had really engaged with the topic in hand.

it frustraits me so when i go to stuff like that because it could be so good if i or any of my follow students had been given the reins there could have been disscusion more questions more intresting ways of persenting the information and we could also have made sure the dude was not gonna spote rubbish that just confusses the young poeple.

i would also have had a jargon buster session he used terms like fear of god exspecting the young people to know exsatly what it meant and i know for a fact that i did not know what that meant when i was a young person.
fyi it means

What does walking in the fear of the Lord mean? It certainly does mean to worship with reverence and awe. But it means to live in fear of displeasing the Lord. ...... but let me exsplain what i mean. a deep true fear of God will keep you from comitting adultery - because of what it does to God, Church, to the one you would be involved with to you, your spouse and family, and to you.
R.T. Kendall (out of the comfort zone)

ill

it seems all i ever am is ill sometimes but hey just had the lurgy bad am back at work now but still recovering if i am being truthful

looking forward to getting out and meeting some young people on friday still a few days to go before i can do that and another volunteer to find eeek.

oh and i have this youth unlimted group to do before that which should be good but we shall see.

lead a session on alcohol and drugs last week it went well although you really don't wish to do that sort of thing with you boss in the room but never mind.

christmas

christmas was great bussy though Gordon and i drove down on chirses birthday which was lovley we went to the chiness buffet in rushden. we went to see ponokeio in northampton which was lovley i love the royal christmas play. although it is criminal what they have done to the entrance of the theater you have to enter through the nasty derngate entrance which is a great example of 1970s yurk instread of the lovley period entrance which we used to go through just makes you want to cry.
gordon went to his home on christmas eve but after going to church with me which is nice.
christmas day was really really nice we all opened presents with sarah and then uncal bob and antie linda came and picked her up. after which we carried on with a quie day helped mum make to make christmas dinner well sort of helped her.
went to dads the day after boxing day which was also lovley met some of dianas friends from the drama centre which was intresting.
then went to Gordons for a few days before he went to this conferance we welcomed in the new year on a bridge in cambridge. and had spent the rest of the night meeting up with his friends and seeing his family.
i went home again and met up with Dan and Aron which was great Dan and i watched scrubs and Aran and I went to the chinees again but that was also lovely havent seen Aron in so long wounderful to catch up.
Gordon and i traveled back up together on the sunday which took up 12ish hours but we did stop for two to see his father and his wife we went to the chinees again so that make three trips to the chinees in three weeks.
now i am in bed with a cold and possibly a chest infection gonna try and get a docs apointment today but such is life at least i was not ill over christmas yay