New Wine Blog 1

Sunday 3rd August   We left Ashtead with its occasion showers and sun to arrive for the New Wine summer conference at Shepton Mallet in torrential rain. Help arrived to set up our tent and create somewhere dry. Then a cup of tea and hot food - even life in the rain can look up. There are about 36 of us here from Ashtead for 6 days of worship and teaching and great community (along with 12,000 others). As ever the children's and youth work is fab and very high octain. We did not make the main adult worship and teaching having arrived a little late and in the wet. But before collecting our older kids from their evening group we took a walk around the site with our two little kids. Delights included dancing in the puddles, seeing loads of people being prayed and bumping into old friends who are dispersed across the country. 10pm and the rain has stopped, we are settling down with a glass of wine. Looking forward to soaking in the presence of God and hopefully some sunshine. Mark