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well the conference has finally been and gone - months of planning and arranging turned into just over forty eight hours of eating, drinking, chatting, meeting, singing, listening, praying, more chatting and some sleeping.
One of the big successes of this year’s conference was a little installation thingy we made, called ‘my face’ - we made a kind of web, or grid of string, onto which people were invited to attach a card we supplied them with. On the card they were asked to put their picture, (we asked them to bring one in advance) and some information - the kind of stuff you might find on one of the dreaded social notworking sites knocking around the internet these days.
As well as that, we asked them to put down some of their hopes and dreams, so that when others read them, they immediately got to know a little something about that person, which perhaps they wouldnt know otherwise.
It turned out to be a popular feature which went down well, and gradually filled up over the weekend. I reckon its the kind of thing you could do at any conference pretty easily, and which certainly provides a good talking point if nothing else!
I met loads of people at the conference, and it was a special time as usual, I’m looking forward to next year’s - which I shall not be running!
in April I said I had set up a flickr account - its taken me this long to put four pictures in it… either I will speed up, or else it will take me a year to put more photos on there… what are the bets?
Kel turned 30 while we were away, hot on my heels! So we had a number of celebrations, the official one was in a Thai restaurant around the corner from our hotel in Phnom Penh, here’s a little snap of the Birthday girl partaking of a celebratory coconut.
We got married when we were 20, she’s still as beautiful now.
Yeah ok, I know I’m not supposed to be in Llanelli at the moment, but I am. I had too much work to finish off before disappearing entirely, so after the Saturday evening meeting finished at the Biker’s rally - I hot footed it back to Wales, narrowly avoiding the floods which apparently were all around us…. arriving at the blissful hour of 4am on Sunday.
Anyhow, time to share a few pics of our friends at CMA, the brave ones who made it to Thirsk in the rain, and managed not to get flooded out on the first night!
Ray and friends, Salvationists from Chatham. Great meeting you boys!
“Oh bru…” Peter ‘eats a lot of breakfast’ Psaros and the guys from CAB, a cool biker band from South Africa… these guys are great company, and they know how to rock… which is always an advantage in life.
One of the things I like about CMA, is that its like a family, a bit like World Horizons. And in any family, there are all sorts of people, clean cut, a bit on the rough side, young, old, normal, nutty…. oh yeah - we’ve got em all 
And here’s God’s own mod, in full flow - admitting to his past of running away from bikers and rockers, sadly he didnt get chased off the stage.
God bless CMA, if you’re into Bikes yourself (of any sort - they even accept scooterists!!) you could do worse than get in touch with them. They run a free tea and coffee tent at lots of major bike rallys, say hello from me!
From this year they are also helping to supply our overseas workers with motorbikes, and given many of our people live in the sort of places that are best navigated by bike, then you can imagine what a great blessing this is.
A good time was had by all - despite the rain.
I saw a cool thing today, a picture from the hubble telescope, which shows the core of a galaxy called the whirlpool galaxy… its almost as if the guy who made the stars wanted to remind us of what he did for us…
see more pictures and view the creator’s cosmic brilliance at the hubble telescope site.
wretched mud.
first the Scarlets scoring yet another try on Friday night, as previously blogged here.
Ho hum.
And the view of Llanelli beach from the beach front cafe…
as well as the view of the Gower peninsula from the same place.
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