The Holy Pasty?

OK so I haven’t updated this blog since I got home from Bracknell. Needless to say this is because I have partly been catching up on work that needed doing and partly because I have been creating new work for myself. D’oh!

It was exceptionally hot on moving day to bring my Sister’s stuff from Bracknell back to Cornwall, and I’m still not quite sure how we managed to get everything done in time – there was mountains of boxes, at least that’s what it seemed like to me. Between the four of us we managed to load the lorry with the furniture and boxes and all the other stuff that needed removing and left just about lunchtime, although we had been for an early lunch at the local KFC! I came down with dad in the lorry, leaving Mum and Sis to clean and then follow us down a bit later. We made good time, it was very hot and the window was down all the way, meaning I got Van passenger’s arm. Windburn and Sunburn and now that is peeling, not an attractive look!

Since then I have had shows to go to, another trip to organise and I have managed to redesign the Soteria website (www.soteriamag.co.uk), and also had meetings about redesigning the Redruth Baptist Church website (www.redruthbaptist.org.uk). I spent Monday helping Dad and trying to catch up on some review and then until Thursday I had the time to work on Soteria.

Thursday the 4th June was Royal Cornwall Show, a huge show in Wadebridge which Greg and I attended. It was very nice, with lunch provided in the press office by Royal Mail for members of the fourth estate! We went around many of the stalls looking at ideas for youth lifestyle for future issues of the magazine or website features. With this year being the celebration of 200 years of Darwin it was unsurprising that both the Seventh Day Adventists and a group of organisations both had displays on Creation and Evolution, promoting the idea of a literal creation. While I agree with the Biblical understanding of Creation in six literal days, I have to confess that more often than not, it’s a red herring for most people. However I couldn’t complain because when it came to Murdoch Day on Saturday our church was running a stall promoting exactly the same thing.

I think all the stalls, including our own, missed the obvious links with todays culture as well! If I were planning a stall I would want to get to the idea of “why does it matter to me?” The question is are you a random chance or are you a being planned by God with a purpose? If you are the first one then nothing I say will matter, but if God created you then what is the purpose of humans, what is the purpose of me. My way in of choice at the moment would be something like Wolverine and the X-Men, mutants, the next stage of evolution – or actually characters created by Stan Lee and others with a specific purpose?

I have to admit that our stall at Redruth’s Murdoch day was considerably better than those I saw up at Royal Cornwall! However it’s not a competition and each were being faithful to God using the gifts that they were given and should be commended. The other

stalls that represented Christianity at Royal Cornwall was a glorified Tea Tent for Churches Together and the Christian Surfers were also out talking to people and promoting the Creation Festival which will be held at Royal Cornwall Showground (7-13th August for further details see www.creationfest.org.uk)

Murdoch Day was very busy with the stall in town, which was well manned, and selling coffee, tea, cakes and patchwork fabrics in the church. I naturally gravitated towards the food and drink, but I was not there to eat, instead I chatted with people as they came and had their tea and coffee, making sure people felt welcome, and where possible sharing the message of Jesus with them!

So yeah it’s been a little on the busy side. I need to get some pictures up on the website of all this stuff, so hopefully that will be part of my job tomorrow, as long as I get some peace from Saul, my youngest boy, who is currently teething!

Tags: Creation, Darwin, Evolution, God, Gospel, Jesus, Journal, Magazine, Murdoch Day, Website

It’s been a busy couple of weeks which is why there have been very few comments on my blog – sorry about that! It doesn’t look like it’s going to stop any time soon, as the build up to Christmas is really beginning. You always know when Christmas is coming because EA Sports release all their next years games like Tiger Woods and Madden Football. However the final signal has arrived in the post in the form of FIFA ‘09 which is one of their huge selling games in the run-up to the big day.

On top of playing all these games I have been very busy working on Soteria’s new magazine which, admittedly is a couple of weeks late (nothing new there then!) We also have something special that has gone out to the printer on Friday so when they come back we can roll out the October magazine!

I have also been working on some publicity for the local Baptist Church that includes a leaflet for Messy Church and a ladies craft night that are upcoming. If you are in the Redruth area then contact the church office for more details. We also have a Children’s light party coming up too. At the moment it’s all publicity and a small Meet Jesus magazine to go with the mission. I have a bit of a holiday in a couple of weeks time which will allow me a bit of breathing space.

We are all looking forward to a nice long trip on a train with the two boys (arrrggghhh!) but it will be worth it all because we are planning to visit Legoland thanks to Warner Bros. Interactive  Toby is definitely looking forward to this as none of us have ever been before but he loves Lego! On top of this there is a Lego Star Wars fireworks display that night – which is one of his favourite X-Box games! He may well be getting a little hyper as we get nearer the holiday!

So with a pile of about 30 books to read and a load of DVDs to watch I had better get on with making sure the website is kept going too!

Tags: EA Sports, FIFA 09, Magazine, Soteria, Website