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Just been looking through the archives and it would appear that today is birthday time for OnMeBus, 5 years ago today saw the birth of the blog. There have been ups and downs and recently things have been a little quieter around here, I want to try and get things back on track a bit and perhaps change the look a bit again over the coming weeks. See you soon.
it’s currently 00:50 and I have had a complete inability to sleep so far tonight (I am going to go and try again in a minute.) Anyway as i couldn’t sleep I thought I would update the blog, not just this post I have re done the about page so it now reflects what is happening now rather than being out of date. Of course with it being very late, me being tiered if not sleepy and dyslexic it could well be full of mistakes so if you feel like having a read and find anything that needs to be corrected please do feel free to let me know!
Good night!
Simo
So apart from the short updates from twitter things have been a little quite here OnMeBus for a while although I’m sure by now you know that things are changing a little bit. OnMeBus will be hitting the road again soon and hopefully with more regular updates than there have been over recent months but the destination has now changed.
Where as before we were journeying through the world of youth ministry (and life as a youth minister) in rural Britain, after 10 years in youth ministry my journey is now hat of an Ordinand (training to priesthood within the Church of England).
Just to update you on where things are, I am now living in Nottingham about to start studying at St. Johns Collage for two years. OnMeBus’s new route will be travelling through Theological study, placements and exploration of all things Anglican.
So climb aboard, grab a seat and buckle up for the ride.
Now sorted out that my tweets feed into the main body of the blog rather than the side bar and hopefully when I post this it should also update my tweet to say I have posted a blog (and therefore facebook?!?) wow the wonders of modern technology.
Sorry all I have been away for far too long, all i can say is the bus broke down, too much other stuff to do and a temperamental computer (this has definitly broken down but is working again at the moment).
I have now managed to upgrade the back end of the blog and fix what went wrong the last time (although I have just noticed my draft posts all now say they were written on 1 Jan 1970, before I was even born impressive).
I am hoping to add a new box later as i have set up a twitter account (which can be found at http://twitter.com/simofaulks) although it should feed into here and is already doing my facebook status. i hope to use this to keep people informed during my selection conference next week but will post again here later.
Cheers
Simo
Next 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.
So I thought it was about time I tried to write something on here again and as it has been while it will be a reflection back over the Wet Season (that time that a few who have been lucky enough to travel abroad may be able to justify calling a summer!
Although things here have been quite (at least it has looked that way, more on this later!) the time it’s self has been quite busy. It all started when just a few days after writing the last post I was involved in a car accident, the car behind me as I approached the roundabout decided to try and go across the the middle while I was going round! This resulted in a hand/wrist injury for myself (I was the only one in the car so no-one else was hurt) and after two weeks waiting for a verdict the car being written off! (this seams strange considering I was in a 6 year old Renault Espace and was hit by (I think around a 10 year old) Peugeot 307 which was able to drive away from the scene with a bent wing) Now just over two months later the wrist is almost better, although still gets a bit achy and I don’t have full movement in it!
After this we had our Holiday Club in Faringdon, Called ‘The Wave’ we took a different approach this year with some input at the beginning and end and much more activity in between. It worked really well and reversed the trend of numbers lowering during the week as this year everyday had more children and we reached the high 80′s by the end.
A few weeks after this was Soul Survivor, we went week C, maybe not the wettest week there, but at the end of them all and one one of the worst sites, it had apparently been evacuated during another week, we seamed to have a constant stream of mud flowing through the camp which was pleasant and is always helpful when you have 50+ people in the group. Apart from the mud we all had a great time and the group were fantastic.
At the end of the Summer there was a rather sad day when I had to wave goodbye to the Cyberbus, the work we had been doing with it had been dying down and so we felt it was time for a bit of a change. The bus has now gone off to Colwyn Bay and is with a church there so it was great to see it going off to continue in ministry. The work I am now doing is working more closely with local churches many of which have recently started up youth groups themselves, it means my role has changed a little from more Outreach to more Nurture. Its exciting times ahead, we do also have a grant application in at the moment to get another bus next year so we will see what happens.
The blog itself has been busy in the background with a major hit from spam bots, this does mean that now in order to comment you may need to fill in a capture unless you have had a few comments passed before (this should clear you).
I think that’s pretty much it apart from a couple of weeks Holiday, one house swap with some friends in Norfolk and another week staying with my parents.
Oh the other thing that has been going on is the continued exploration of the call to ordination, this has been going well, still quite a lot to do, but positive stuff so far and still enjoying it, please do continue to pray for God’s guidance as I explore this path.
God bless
Simo
Well I have freshened up the look slightly and made a bit more of a customisation job, I know some people found the heavy black of the old look difficult so I hope this is better, please leave your comments to let me know what you think.
I think so anyway, it now seams to display ok, there was a particular post where things went wrong and it seems that because I tend to type my posts in a word processor then copy and paste, I had done that post on a different computer and software, it had copied some code that it put at the beginning of the post and messed things up. I had also been having problems as mentioned before with the theme keep changing to the default, I hope that was part of the same problem but only the next few days/weeks will tell on that front!
I seem to be having a few more technical difficulties at the moment, these only effect (as far as I know I would be keen to hear from anyone who can test on a mac) Internet Explorer and Opera, in either of these browsers the right hand column seems to be missing and you only get a couple of posts (I don’t know what impact this post will have on that). If you switch to another page it works and you can then go to the archive, it is only the home page that has the problem, the other way to solve it and and even better idea would be to use Firefox! I will continue trying to fix this problem though.
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