New Wine 2010 - 4

The tent for little kids :)

X is for eXcited (OH YES IT IS!!)

I can't help it! I know it's still four weeks away, but I'm getting Tiggerishly excited! I just want the next two weeks to fly past like lightning so that I can savour the last minute preparations and then actually be there!!

Weird aren't I! Other people get eXcited about going on holiday to eXotic foreign places, but I'm tingling about the thought of driving 47 miles, just into the next county, to set up my tent on an agricultural showground, meet up with very special friends and do lots 'n' lots 'n' lots of work in a week and a half.

I can't wait to see this...

and this...

but we don't want too much of this!

What is it I am so eXcited about?

It's called New Wine North and East, it's a Christian family conference attracting around 6,000 delegates, it's packed full of events and activities for all ages, it's full of the presence of the living God and, once again, I have the privilege of serving on the Stewarding team in the Radio Control Office which is full-on hard work, but also about as much fun as it is possible for one body to handle!

... and counting!

To see other eXtraordinary X posts, bounce over to Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday.

That little buzz of excitement

I can understand your slight air of puzzlement! What on earth is there to be excited about here?

Please allow me to explain...

For fifty and a half weeks of the year, this is the bar in the Joe Hallam building on the Newark and Nottinghamshire Agricultural Showground, but for the other week and a half, it becomes the Control Office for the New Wine North and East Summer Conference. During that particular week and a half, I will be spending a significant amount of time behind this bar; working with a team to co-ordinate communication around site. Our task? To ensure that the conference runs as smoothly as possible for the five thousand delegates who arrive with their tents, caravans and (occasonally) camper vans to join as a whole commmunity of people longing to meet with and be blessed by God, whilst having an enormous amount of fun.

And what do I get out of this? A challenge, the satisfaction of a job well done and the privilege of working with the most brilliant bunch of people you could hope to meet.

Seven weeks and counting! Watch this space!!!