Thank goodness for the shaded seating area in the primary school playground!  It was a scorching afternoon for our open air service and it was good to have a total of about 50 people including two who are not church-goers (we had three visitors, one from our lunch club and a couple who live on our patch where one belongs to a very strict church and the other goes nowhere - we were it seems the safe enough space for him to go, hurrah!).

It was a good afternoon, people enjoyed themselves and entered into the spirit of the various activities.  From 'Jubilate everybody', to 'Come down, oh love divine', via 'There's a spirit in the air' to 'You shall go out with joy' I think we catered for most tastes.  We had drama, we had bubbles, we had talks, we had a response and we had full blown intercessions.  Then we shared tea and biscuits indoors before everyone went home happy.

We might not have spoken in languages of people or of angels, we might not have seen thousands added to our number, but we celebrated something of the oneness we have as Christians inspired by the Spirit of a holy and life-giving God.

Next stop... in six weeks time we have our 'Big Summer Sing' - a tea and service for our lunch club folk to come along to. Ideally it'll be out of doors and hopefully followed by a strawberry tea... watch this space!