Another week begins - my fourth one in my placement at St. Francis's. As usual, after taking Thom to the Wallops, I drove over to St. Francis's for Morning Office with the other ministers. This also gave me an opportunity to write up my diary of forthcoming events this week - St. Francis's Benefice is such a busy place. After this I spent a couple of hours at Sarum College where I managed to write up about 400 words of my next assignment - on intercessory prayer - before then spending the afternoon at Alabare's head office at Churchfields at a Chaplain's Conference. I had the opportunity to meet some of the other volunteer chaplains and in particular my opposite number at the women's refuge centre and the Oasis Project in Romsey - which is to close. She is an ordinand at STETS who has discerned her own ministry to be outside parishes. We agreed to keep in contact in case there is anything I can do to help persuade the powers that be not to close her project. We had an industrial chaplain from Cambridge speak to us and show us a film on some of the chaplaincy work which has been done as part of the industrial chaplaincy project in Cambridge - e.g. a couple of large manufacturing companies, a laundry and Cambridge United FC. It really did bring home the relevance and importance of chaplaincy in today's world. After this I had a coffee at the Boston Tea Party before attending a committee meeting and rehearsal of Sarum Lodge at Freemasons' Hall. I stayed for about an hour before it was then back to Winterslow for a two-hour meeting of Winterslow Parish Council. Tonight we were each given hi-vis jackets for our work in and around the village. They are lovely and warm and will be great for going out for walks and cycling when on Council business. Just need the hard hat and pneumatic drill now! Went to bed early and challenged myself to more Candy Crush and word games on the iPad. Tomorrow I will have a look at Rev as tonight Mary was intent on watching the dreadful Dancing Moms on TV.
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