Love from the Landsdowne

Posted by Robin Rolls on Thursday 21 Feb 2008, 09:12PM

A night in Leicester for the Bobzmeister, and I find myself in an unknown bar on the London Road - just thought I'd pop out after work and find out what's going on around this fab part of our fab city and Diocese...

I was at a meeting of some great folks last night, and one of them said that they had asked a young person where the church was that they were going to a meeting at, and the young person said 'well, I think it's over there somewhere', but they weren't really sure.

I just thought that in that fleeting moment, there was an amazing truth, I think the Church is over there somewhere, but I'm not really sure, and maybe they didn't care either.  Where is the church?  WHat is it doing, is it over there, or over here?

Just some random thoughts from the London Road........

Finding the right worker?

Posted by Robin Rolls on Monday 18 Feb 2008, 11:48AM

......so there I am, booted and suited, chairing a three day interview process to find the right minister for our home church.  There had been about 70 expressions of interest - it's a small but progressive church, and that makes us popular.  Some of them were remote and a bit wierd - One application was from someone with no Church experience but a degree in Nuclear Physics......? :s

In the end it boiled down to two, both from different countries, both felt called, both good people, both probably could have bought different things to us as a church.  In the end we chose one guy, unanimously everyone agreed he was God's man, and after a lot of prayer and a very lengthy and rigorous process he has been offered the job.

Strange thing is, he saw the advert once - first time round, and couldn't apply, and then when we didn't manage to fill the post first time around, he happened to see the advert again 'by chance', andlo and behold......

Amazing really, he preached on Sunday, and it seemed like he had 'come home' he was so relaxed and excited.  Ridiculous, profound wierd........and then the same God creates a totally breathtaking sunrise this morning on the M42 at about 6:30 - how on earth did he do that??  In the words of Bruce Almighty.........'now you're just showing off'

Bobz x

Blog for the world

Posted by Robin Rolls on Friday 08 Feb 2008, 09:28AM

hi guys,

just to let you know there are some ridiculous things going on - talk of another youth event this year sometime, talk of maybe 2 NEW youth churches being created, and the ability for YOU to blog here within the near future!  Thought you'd like to know.  Enjoy your weekend and thanx for being you!

Bobz