Proper good week. So busy but so worth it. I've been trying to not work until the evening when I get Holly and Elijah down in bed and then just blitzing my things to do list. I hate trying to balance working when they are up - as much as I am grateful for Cbeebies at some point most days I do hate just sticking them in front of that and trying to work - it just feels wrong and I'm sure they don't like it. Elijah is really starting to need more attention as he's learning to get around and he just loves being with people.
The first two sesions fo I'm the girl I want to be' thursday and Friday night. I felt like a zombie thursday night leading that session - didn't realise it was possible to sit printing through 3 packs of paper in one day and it be so knackering! To say though that we've done an intro session and one session on self worth there are so many issues coming up in these girls lives already that they're obviously just bursting to be able to deal with. We've put in stacks of work and I know God will use and honour all of that, I believe he's been in our prepaeration so much, but basically he's just been working at bringing these issues to the surface in this group for this time. Oh I love it when a plan comes together -and we didn't realise what a great plan that would be! I'd so love to document it all here but though no one is actually reading this at the moment I would be breaching a bit of confidentiality to blog all the names and issues at the moment.
Packing down at the end we talked again about how much we really need a van. We have nowhere to store our stuff and our resources are growing all the time. Joel is getting sick of sharing our dining table with laminates and floor cushions and we've got far less here then Rach has at hers with her poor parents giving up their whole study to be filled with storage boxes! so we know a van would really help for storing the less expensive stuff and we have to do more than one journey to places. our PA is SO heavy and doesn't fit into our cars too so for gigs we are really struggling. What we need is a van and an office with room to store our PA stuff where we can access it really easily. Being 3 girls is a problem when it comes to lugging flight cases around anyway.
We'd not really advertied the fact that we need one, at least for a while anyway, but we did speak to each other about it on friday night and chatted through it again with Claire last night whilst popping round to get some fish and chips but this morning in church Dot, who is one of those amazingly inspirational people- who really acts on all the things God asks her to no questioning - said to Rach that we'd really been on her heart this week, she'd been praying for us loads especially about the girls course but whilst doing that had really felf that God had told her that we really needed a van. She doesn't have tha sort of money at all so it wasn't an order for her to sort ot but a sign that God has it under control. Another couple who already support us, financially and give us so much prayer and encouragement also gave us money to pay for CDs to give to all the girls on the course. It feels so overwhelming to be so supported but I guess we still really feel that it's our vision we are having to persuade people to see the potential in whereas people are really showing us it is God's vision and he can inspire anyone to buy into what is being set up. That way is ten million times better as well.
It is ten minutes until my birthday! I wonder if on my birthday next year I will still have projector screens made from toilet plumbing sticking into my head when I sit on the sofa - or will we have a premisis? Last birthday I was a big whale and this year that big bump is now a gorgeous cheeky little boy who smiles and tries to chatter to me - so I KNOW that anything is possible!
The first two sesions fo I'm the girl I want to be' thursday and Friday night. I felt like a zombie thursday night leading that session - didn't realise it was possible to sit printing through 3 packs of paper in one day and it be so knackering! To say though that we've done an intro session and one session on self worth there are so many issues coming up in these girls lives already that they're obviously just bursting to be able to deal with. We've put in stacks of work and I know God will use and honour all of that, I believe he's been in our prepaeration so much, but basically he's just been working at bringing these issues to the surface in this group for this time. Oh I love it when a plan comes together -and we didn't realise what a great plan that would be! I'd so love to document it all here but though no one is actually reading this at the moment I would be breaching a bit of confidentiality to blog all the names and issues at the moment.
Packing down at the end we talked again about how much we really need a van. We have nowhere to store our stuff and our resources are growing all the time. Joel is getting sick of sharing our dining table with laminates and floor cushions and we've got far less here then Rach has at hers with her poor parents giving up their whole study to be filled with storage boxes! so we know a van would really help for storing the less expensive stuff and we have to do more than one journey to places. our PA is SO heavy and doesn't fit into our cars too so for gigs we are really struggling. What we need is a van and an office with room to store our PA stuff where we can access it really easily. Being 3 girls is a problem when it comes to lugging flight cases around anyway.
We'd not really advertied the fact that we need one, at least for a while anyway, but we did speak to each other about it on friday night and chatted through it again with Claire last night whilst popping round to get some fish and chips but this morning in church Dot, who is one of those amazingly inspirational people- who really acts on all the things God asks her to no questioning - said to Rach that we'd really been on her heart this week, she'd been praying for us loads especially about the girls course but whilst doing that had really felf that God had told her that we really needed a van. She doesn't have tha sort of money at all so it wasn't an order for her to sort ot but a sign that God has it under control. Another couple who already support us, financially and give us so much prayer and encouragement also gave us money to pay for CDs to give to all the girls on the course. It feels so overwhelming to be so supported but I guess we still really feel that it's our vision we are having to persuade people to see the potential in whereas people are really showing us it is God's vision and he can inspire anyone to buy into what is being set up. That way is ten million times better as well.
It is ten minutes until my birthday! I wonder if on my birthday next year I will still have projector screens made from toilet plumbing sticking into my head when I sit on the sofa - or will we have a premisis? Last birthday I was a big whale and this year that big bump is now a gorgeous cheeky little boy who smiles and tries to chatter to me - so I KNOW that anything is possible!
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