Category: llanelli

Ammanford – a very green place

I have a meeting in Ammanford this afternoon, its a small town not far from Llanelli, where I live.

The interesting thing (to me) about Ammanford is that it has an unusual amount of green companies and people doing business there, for instance:

Abaca organics

Glo4life

Sundance renewables

Okay, so it isnt Machynlleth, which is a remarkable little place, full of all kinds of eco enterprises, but that is (in my opinion) down to the amount of hippies who went there and settled down, starting green businesses. Ammanford doesnt have hippies wandering the streets, its just an ordinary Welsh town, but with some wonderful and extraordinary people.

For the eco tourist by the way – Wales is the place to come. In fact, its pretty nice if you’re eco inclined or not.

more about celebration for the nations

its monday – I’ve been back at work today!

and to round the day off, a cftn meeting which tonight was in a nice old church – funny there’s loads of cool old churches round here, but I’ve hardly been inside any of them.

anyhow, I found this evening’s meeting encouraging.

a lot of people talk about revival, and in general I tend to be a little shy of joining in, cos I find that often there is a measure of self indulgence in it all.  Tonight though I was reminded of how the Welsh revival brought great good to many nations around the world, bringing peace, and justice to hundreds of thousands of people.

then war broke out, in Europe we all started killing each other, and many of the young men saved in the 1904 revival never returned from the trenches.

in Korea, where revival had hit in 1907, the Japanese invasion had more new believers killing each other.

this celebration comes from a pure desire to see God remove the blockages which saw the dying off of the movement of his spirit 100 years ago.

I’m pleased to be part of it, as I believe the intent to be pure, and the plan to be simple.

so if you want to sing to God, and to join with others from all around the world doing so in Llanelli’s wonderful surroundings, then check out the site.

there was a good video shown tonight which explains the vision very clearly, I’ll see if we can youtube it, and then you can see it too!

Celebration for the Nations update

On a musical note… hahaha, its only a matter of weeks now until celebration for the nations, which I have blogged about here before.

So far there are guest musicians and bands coming from countries including Korea, India, various parts of Europe, and the Americas.  Also various visitors from around the globe coming to South Wales, to be part of a week of sung worship.

Should be quite a sight, afraid I wont be there to see it, but I can reccomend Llanelli as a good place to visit this July…

I’ll update with more info as things progress.

the seaside

I like to walk by the sea, and there’s plenty of sea around here.

along one stretch there is a lot of rough grassland very close to the shore, and you get a great variety of bird song.

I often wear headphones when out walking, but down there… nah.

So I wrote this ode:

“I dont need my mp3

when I walk down by the sea

because the birds are set on shuffle

and they sound just great to me.”

Not one of my prize winning efforts.