… since I last posted something on here!
I guess that is an indication of how busy I am!
Since the last entry I have finished my exam (only had one…the LAST one!) and have literally just checked the result online to find I passed! But it ain’t over yet. Gone are the days when you’d be free after your exams, but not me, oh no. Now I have to complete and hand in a 20,000 word dissertation by mid-September… Yikes…
My subject of choice is “Paul’s Church planting in Acts”. I chose it because the majority of the work that goes on in Japan is Church planting work, and I want to do something linked to what I will be involved in (both directly and indirectly) out there (it’s hard to find Japanese topics to study in Belfast!). So far I think it is going ok, I have been working through Paul’s work in Acts, I’ve scrutinised it in a fair bit of detail and am now working through more specifically… I have chosen to look at the major points Luke makes about Paul’s work (he tends to pull out a major point at most of the stops Paul makes, often something done regularly, but studied at that juncture in detail…)
Anyways I’m probably boring you and you’ll stop reading if you haven’t already…
Recently I have bought a new camera! Well, new to me! It’s been a few years since the digital revolution really took off and the result is that there are a bunch of decent DSLR cameras out there second hand at pretty reasonable prices. I haven’t done much fun photography (ie photographing for photographing’s sake rather than recording events etc) and would quite like to start into it a bit again… So I was on ebay and snapped up a Canon EOS 300D, not the most up to date camera, but a great camera of it’s time, and still a quality camera! I got a great price and can’t wait til it arrives!!
I haven’t heard much, but hopefully some of us will be doing a bit of paddling soon too. I haven’t been out in my boat since YC stopped! Jake has also given me lend of his Mega Maverick, a plastic surf kayak, as he has got himself a beautiful carbon fibre boat (along with Lyle and Tommy…) and I am really looking for an excuse to get out.
Some of us also have (sketchy) plans to paddle from Antrim to the North Coast along the Lower Bann one of these days… Hopefully pretty soon!
Still at work at GCD… NICarfinder.co.uk is getting underway and keeping us pretty busy, along with the usual raft of other work…
My OMF applications are still working along, I pretty much have my medical forms filled in and just need to find out and tidy up some bits and get them sent off, candidate’s Course is at the start of July and I am travelling around various places speaking and sharing about Japan and future plans for me.
So thats about it I think! Life is extremely busy at the moment and so forgive me if I don’t get much chance to update this in the near future!
