Beginnings

So I have been at Jordanhill Parish for just over three weeks now and I seem to be settling in as well as I could have expected. It has definitely come to my attention that Glasgow is a little bigger than the greater Donacloney-Waringstown area, but I am starting to get used with city life and the weegie intonation, though I’m quite fortunate to live in the west end of the city where the Glasgow burr isn’t just as hard to figure out. Church is going great and everyone is very friendly, including the young people or folk as they would be referred to. The style of worship on a Sunday morning is very different from what I am used to but I feel that it is where God wants me to be right now, and part of the learning process he wants me to go through.

On the youth work front most of my time is split three ways:

• Jordanhill School - where I take assemblies and work with Clubs/organisations.
• Church – concentrating on all things for the under 25’s, Junior Church, Sunday morning Worship and of course Timeout, which despite sounding like a biscuit and a punishment for being bad, regularly sees between 25-30 young people attend a bi-weekly event in their year group. Currently we have an S1 and S2 group, with the hope of next year starting a third group.
• Katharos - Finally I am involved in the planning of a new initiative, a monthly gathering of young people in the west end of Glasgow, meeting to grow in their relationship with Christ and explore what it means to live in community with one and other.