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Slimbridge 2004
This was the year that we prepared ourselves for the building of our new hall. We thought it was just as important to be equipped spiritually as much as it was financially, to have a spiritual blueprint for our church - the people - as it was to have plans for the building.
So we looked to two Old Testament prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, in our studies to see how they encouraged the Israelites to build a temple in
In workshops we made things we would like to see in the new hall, like clocks and paintings and thought about how Bible characters prepared themselves for tasks God wanted them to take on through prayer and praise. It was in the former of these we discovered that Nehemiah (who set about rebuilding the walls of
Other activities included a walk along the canal, learning a version of "What a friend we have in Jesus" sung by our brothers and sisters in