Beginning again!

Well it has been a long time since I posted anything here, so after apologising to those who liked to read my blog, I am now hoping that I will soon be welcoming everyone back to renew our friendships. The year 2007 has moved on so fast that I can't believe we are in September already. Much of my time has been taken up with studying for the Disciple 3 Course (the O.T. Prophets and St. Paul's Letters) - now completed - alongside my usual work for the church and then the younger members of the family initiated research into my family's genealogy. This has taken up a great deal of time, partly because they sent me discs of photos (140 at a time) for me to identify and partly because of the need to contact elderly cousins, etc., who have not yet moved up into the mysterious world of the Internet and so need to communicate by phone or snail mail. There's still much to do but we're doing well now, so it's time to get back to blogging - even though this morning's post brought a letter from a niece asking me to help with the family history of my husband's family! Is there no end to it?

It is good to be starting a new Methodist year, even if I can no longer attend the District Synod because I've served my 6 years. We have just welcomed a new young Deacon who us rapidly making herself one of us and has had experience in many ways of serving the community, both here in the U.K. and in the U.S.A. We are still in our year of mission called Regenerate Reading and working towards 'Back to Church Sunday' on 30th September and a 'Lost for Words'
6-week course starting in October.