Earlier this week I was visiting one of the youth groups in the area that I go along to once a month, on this occasion I had been asked if I could do something on the big S word. This is not a problem as it is something I have talked to youth groups about several times before. One of the things I do to get the ball rolling is I get a selection of lads and girls ‘general interest’ magazines ( I think the idea came from youth work magazine some years ago) and I get the to look at the front cover and later the adverts looking at how sex is used to sell both the magazine and many of the products advertised inside. With it being two or three years since I have done this session it was time to go and get some new magazine and I have to say I was quite shocked, I found it very difficult to find a lads mag that I felt I could even show the front cover of to a group of young people, I did get one (where as I would have got two or three) but then I wouldn’t let them open it. What is the world coming to when I go to speak to a youth group about sex and the only thing I find particularly embarrassing is looking at a couple of current youth aimed publications to help the discussion. Of course it doesn’t help when I live and work in a small market town and I go to the local news agent to buy these magazines as well!
Email this postNext month it will be 4 years since I started OnMeBus and as I’m sure (if anyone still reads) you will have noticed that over the past few months things have gotten to be rather quite on here, in fact in the last six months I have only written three posts. So I have been thinking it has come to crunch time, either I need to pick it up again and start trying to use it, or it is time to call ‘last stop’. I suppose the thing is I haven’t stopped writing because nothing has been going on in fact it’s more because of time pressures but in the past I have found the exorcise of writing on hear quite a helpful one and at the moment lots is going on. Back in May I was writing about visits to the DDO, these have been continuing and I am still on the journey of discovering where God is calling me to in my future ministry. So my plan is that I am going to try and get back in the drivers seat and steer this hear blog into the new adventure, into the future.
So just to update where I am at the moment, I now have about 6.5 months left on my current contract, I will have been in Faringdon for 5 years by the end of it. I am going to a selection conference in April and will then hopefully know where the future leads a bit more, if the conference says yes then September/October time should see me heading off back to theological college to train as a priest within the Anglican Church, if they say no, then who knows where we might be heading. And even if we do know that there is still the question of August/September and what might be happening then.
So here’s to getting back OnMeBus and an exciting New Year ahead of us.
God bless you all.
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