Spring Harvest Day 1

The first day of our Spring Harvest break saw us set off at 10.30 a.m. for Minehead.  Because of my right knee problem, Sara drove and I navigated us to the Somerset resort – arriving at around 1 p.m.  We checked-in and parked the car next to the Big Top close to the second entrance to Butlin’s site.  As we could not enter our chalet until 4 p.m. we walked along the seafront (with Petra and her son and friend) into Minehead town centre to have lunch at Jaws – the fish and chip café on the High Street.  The temperature today seems close to freezing with a bitingly cold wind whipping up the sand from the beach.  We struggled to walk back to the Butlins’ site after lunch but after we had returned to the car we then managed to place everything on two trollies and push them along to our chalet in Oyster Bay (where we have been on numerous previous occasions).  With the exception of Petra, who has a Silver De-Luxe apartment, the whole of the Clarendon Church group is situated in the same building with Sophie and family next door to us and Cynthia and the other members of the Clarendon ministry Team in the flat above.  Tonight we all went to the Big Top Celebration with excellent worship music from Noel Robinson and an excellent keynote speech from Gerard Kelly.  I felt very uplifted by both the worship and the message from the speaker.  This week we shall be trying to get back to the basics of Jesus’s life and teaching as “The Source” of our theology.  A broad church approach – breaking down the denominational differences and getting back to the concept of the true meaning of Christianity.  Cynthia and Debbie joined us for a glass of wine and nibbles (pretzels from Debbie) and Sara and I went to see Tim Vine and John Archer performing in the Crazy Horse. Most amusing and a great way to end the day.  Really looking forward to the rest of the week – although I will need to take time out for study and writing up my church doctrine essays.