“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

Phew! Another busy Saturday. Just after lunch went up to Hayes Town to join with some folks from Hayes Town Chapel as they sang Christmas Carols in the high street and shared the gospel with those to stopped to listen. Whilst there were a good number of singers, most of the men didn’t sing either bass or tenor parts, so it was a good job I had gone along as there were only two of us singing parts, me on bass and another chap on tenor.
Later that afternoon was the baptisms of Ali, Ally, David A, David H, Jarwad and Mim. It was encouraging to hear these young people declaring their faith in Jesus Christ both to us as a church and to their peers whom they had invited to witness the event.

“May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” Hebrews 13:20-21

Finally, the usual suspects, and then some, celebrated Christine’s birthday. First we went bowling, allowing me to finally beat Karen and come top of the table! We then moved on to Sarah’s place to finish off the evening with some pizza, cake and games.
Time for bed I think.

Well, I appear to be ill again. Fortunately not as serious as last time, but bad enough to induce sneezing, coughing, a headache and generally make me more sleepy than usual. Went to work this morning, but didn’t feel so good so went home for the afternoon. Didn’t even feel well enough to go wandering around the locality to play with my new camera. What I have managed to do is watch up to series six of Friends and sleep. Fortunately I don’t find those two things (I was about to put “activities”, but they aren’t particularly active) too unpleasant, so it isn’t all bad. Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow.

The past couple of evenings have been fairly routine, yet good. Yesterday evening played five-a-side football with work colleagues and, even though I haven’t played for a couple of weeks, I managed to run around for longer than I had anticipated and I even scored a few goals! Then I went bowling with the usual suspects, eventually coming just behind Karen and drawing with Dave.
This evening was spent at Sarah’s house playing Scattergories, whilst eating a rather large pizza between us. A very pleasant evening, and unusually for a word game, I beat Nigel…although Sarah came out on top. 🙁
A very pleasant couple of evenings.