musings on leadership in ministry
Sorry for the late post… It’s been a busy week. Good, but busy. Fitting in the runs has been a struggle but I’ve managed most of them (I missed the short run on Thursday). I’m almost halfway though! My ‘running week’ ends on a Monday with the long run. This week my training has changed Read More …
Running this week has been pretty good. I dug around the miCoach site and found that my race pace should be 10 seconds below the top of the green zone. I’ve been struggling to get into the yellow zone and maintain that pace… it was just a little too fast. I reduced the pace zones Read More …
Day Tickets Launched – buy them now online! Due to the high volume of people enquiring about our Day Tickets, we’ve decided to launch them a couple of weeks early. You can now buy tickets for our Friday and Saturday night gigs or spend a whole day with us on either Saturday or Sunday by Read More …
I’m a third of the way through my training for my half marathon in September in aid of Christian Aid. Here are the stats: So far I’ve run 34 times. I missed 3 runs when we were on holiday. I’ve run 205.97km in 20 hours 13 minutes and 05 seconds. I’ve used 16577 calories. And Read More …
The final day of the General Assembly is always the least well attended. It tends to be the pensions, trustees and stewardship type committees. Short reports and few decisions. But not today. The Ministries Council report was remaindered yesterday and so mid-morning the discussion about Ordained Local Ministry began again. Eventually Assembly voted 200-190 in Read More …
Today was another fascinating day at the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly. I’d love to be able to write about the discussion about Israel / Palestine but I was out and so didn’t see what was by all accounts an excellent discussion. I did see the Panel on Review and Reform have their plan for Read More …
Just a link for anyone looking for information about Suicide First Aid Training as recommended by the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly today. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is intended as ‘suicide first-aid’ training. ASIST aims to enable helpers (anyone in a position of trust) to become more willing, ready and able to recognise Read More …