Sunday 19th May - delighted to be at wonderful Wesley's Chapel for the Testimony service of Methodist ordinands from the London District, including Rev Imran Malik. Go Imran!!
Monday 20th May - delighted to take a completed PhD text for printing and binding - a mere 94,000 words. The viva (defence before external examiners) not until August though. Lots of time to reflect on what might have been added - or subtracted. But you have to stop sometime...
Tuesday 21st May - delighted to meet up with Hannah, Harad and Michael at the stunningly creative TBI Media and be an interview guest at their kind invitation.
Wednesday 22nd May - delighted to spend a day prepping for Fiji at Interhealth and then Methodist Church House with Nurse Jo, Dr Clare, Steve, Simon, Ernest, George, Dave, Samir, Syntiche and Jane: each one - separately but comfortingly united in purpose - offering words of wisdom about preparing for ministry in Fiji. Grateful to them all! (Now where did I put those notes...)
As my last post was in Holy Week it just goes to prove that additions to this blog won't be numerous until I start preparing properly for mission service in Fiji! That's its purpose really. But I look forward to meeting Julia Edwards from the Pacific Conference of Churches during the coming week for some briefing. Her news can be read here. Also flagging up the Methodists for World Mission Conference at the end of the month that I plan to be at for the Saturday. All details here.
For more frequent snippets while finishing off the PhD I tend to post @RevValOgden where there's a celebratory picture of my goddaughter Lydia receiving her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award at St James's Palace last week. The reason this is
relevant to a blog in preparation for Fiji is Lydia's enthusiastic endorsement of my appointment there. 'Well I'M visiting!!'
All welcome....
