Worship Central

I went to worship central again on Saturday. What a fantastic day! Not only was the worship and teaching amazing as usual, but I also got to know two more people from church much better!

5 of us went up to London, leaving at the unearthly hour of 7 a.m. We all drove up in Mark's BMW and had a very comfortable trip up there. We got there shortly before 9. Andy needed the toilet and had to battle with what I can only describe as a very efficient member of HTB Door Staff! After a bit of friendly banter (and several threats!) he was finally allowed to use the toilet in Church House, across the car park from the main building...

We then proceeded to that most sacred of restaurants - McDonalds. The food was exquisite! Well, I'll refrase that. The food was eaten.

The morning session started with worship led by Mr Tim Hughes followed by an interview with Mike Pilavachi, Nikcy and Pippa Gumbel. I had never noticed quite how posh the Gumbels really are!!!

Lunch was spent sat on a bench in the church garden where I had a lovely chicken caesar wrap.

I went to two seminars in the afternoon. The first one was led by Lex Buckley and was about women worship leaders. She spoke at 300 miles an hour, but when I could keep up, she was passing on very useful information.

Then there was a seminar by Mike Lloyd. He was excellent as usual, speaking on the true meaning of the resurrection. I would relay what he said, but his talk had 12 points and it would just take too long. I reccommend reading his book, Cafe Theology.

The evening session started at 6.30 after after a delicious hot chocolate in a soup bowl and a slice of chocolate cake!

Lex Buckley led the worship and Mike P spoke on humility. His message touched a lot of us out there and for that I thank him.

Anyhow, as usual the evening ended on a high and we all came back, Mark and I discussing the resurrection in the front, while the other three, Andy, Sue and Pete dozed off in the back, sleeping like little babies. I'm hoping they were simply tired and not bored of the conversation!

It was again an excellent day. Time to book the next one!

Alex