Rejoice!

I mentioned in the list of recent things happening in Wellington several items in connection to the MAD (Mentoring and Discipling) team. We just had a meeting to organise aspects of the upcoming seminar to be taken by Tim's Dad, on priorities and place throughout life.

Far out. It was good. Somehow we managed to pull good discussion and clear decisions out of stupid jokes and disorderly conduct. But thanks be to God for Mr Heeringa who started the whole team, all the young folk (the average age must be about 22) who are enthusiastic and willing, Tim the organisational bright spark, and the various strands of maturity, leadership and ideas that seem to be coalescing in that group.

Tell you what. I am positively bubbling over with hope for the future prospects of our people. Among other things, we're already talking about future seminars along the lines of the articles in Comment magazine which explore vocational Christianity - how the kingdom of God meets the workplace. Like this one on The Craft of Automotive Mechanics.

I can't remember ever feeling so energised and optimistic about what we can do and effect as a church - except in a personal sense when I was discovering the Reformed faith under the most able teacher I've ever had. And this is better than that, because now it's a thing of the body, in both the corporate and corporeal senses.

It really seems like blessings are right here, right now.