Sarah Connolly

2006-01-06T15:35:00.000Z

2005-12-21T21:35:00.000Z

I've moved!!!!
you can now find my slinky new blog at www.xanga.com/sarahcon

I'm still changing stuff, but yeah....xanga is exciting man!
Thanks for being a wonderful blog to me blogger!!
xxx

2005-12-06T21:22:00.000Z

hello all. I'm trying to write an essay, but it's not going so well. Oh well!! Yeah so, havent been up to too much - visited parents, visited Dan's parents, visited Dan's sister and Bro-in-law, been at church, been working, seeing people, telling people about Jesus. Oh man, yeah!!! it's getting so exciting, cos God seems to be really stirring something up in the people on my course! 2 of my good course mates keep asking questions about God, and I bought them tickets to my church carol service, which, between you and me, is gonna be spiggin AWESOME! Also, my friend Mary, who's on my course, and goes to my church has been having amazing conversations with this jewish dude! There's other little things going on, but its so excited!! I really am praying for the faith to really believe that Lauren and Laura will become Christians at least before the end of uni!! Also my housemate Maxine....me and Dan were talking to her the other day about stuff, and she's just so close man, i just need to keep talking to her about stuff, and inviting her to church and stuff man!!HOW EXCITING!!! CU is just about to have a week of 24-7 which will be amazing, i'm gonna get some proper times with God man, and really lift these guys up to him!!

WoOOOO! well, that was a bit of a tangent eh?! I'm going to see Coldplay soon!! oh and maybe delirious? if i can get a move on!

Ooooh yeah, New year man....we're all comin back to Manchester for a Hook Party - where we all have to dress up as characters from Hook, and we have a big feast with coloured mash, and big meaty legs of meat!! how cool eh?!! New years Eve is also the day me and Dan will have been together for like 6 months. its gone so fast, it's weird. But great!!!
ADIOS AMIGOS!!

2005-11-16T17:14:00.000Z

Isn't it funny when you realise a road is one-way when you've spent weeks looking both ways ?

2005-11-15T11:43:00.000Z

hey. Should be reading "Christian Conservatives and the Totalitarian Challenge, 1933-40" but really can't be bothered, I've been going reading crazy recently! Anyway, so yeah, Encounter was AMAZING! seriously, so amazing. The hotel we were staying in was on the North coast of Wales, right by the sea. It was a well nice hotel, I ate so much good food! The weekend itself was really hardcore...I think we had about 2 hours of free time in total over the whole weekend. We had talks by the ladies, and in a lot of them they told us really intimate things from their past that they had struggled with and that God had totally dealt with. Because they did that, it meant we felt we could tell people about our struggles and stuff, and get prayed with about it all. The talks were so good, so biblical and really really challenging, and probably the best thing was that people were so "real".

It was good to really Encounter God, and escape from the world - we couldn't take mobiles so it was like being cut off from the world completely, but that really let you enjoy God's creation and really encouter him with no distractions. It was so good to get to know some of the other students, and the ladies of the church - who were so amazing and just really interested in us all. I keep thinking about stuff i've learnt, there was so much stuff in there. One of the leadership had an amazing prophecy for me, which is just REALLy exciting, and I can't really believe that God is gonna do such stuff through me! I really need to take hold of everything he has for me. ANyway, thats all, sorry it was quite vague, but it was totally amazing, and i'm sure i'll come out with some more stuff about it some other time.

2005-11-11T12:08:00.000Z

hello all! So life is pretty good at the moment. This weekend I've got a weekend away with my church called "encounter". Its only for the ladies (the men have their own one) and its basically a time when we can just encounter God and allow him to deal with stuff in our lives. I was talking to one of my friends the other day and we were just thinking how sometimes we don't expect God to totally finish something in our lives. Sometimes we just settle for thinking that even though it might get better, some of our struggles will be with us our whole lives. We just thought that that is so limiting to our awesome God. We need to believe that sometimes God just wants to totally remove some of the stuff from our past that is weighing us down. TOTALLY remove it.

Yeah so, apart from being a little apprehensive about that, I think it should be really good. Probably quite draining but good! We can't take mobile phones so if any of you are trying to contact me, then basically you can't!

In other news....The Mission Bell by Delirious? arrived today, its good, i'm liking it. Haven't even played it through once yet, but its good. Some of the ones they did at Soul Survivor in the summer were awesome, like Miracle Maker, yeah man!
I went to see the lights get turned on in Manchester yesterday, it was well good. Lee Ryan did it, which wasn't that great, but seriously the fireworks afterwards were spiggin awesome.

Right ok, I have loads of work to do, and not much time to do it! X

2005-11-05T22:43:00.000Z

ok, so i decided to do a poll, and for those of you who don't know the people named, then just vote anyway (obviously for me). How fun is this, oh and I'm well liking the pink and yellow!

2005-11-03T23:43:00.000Z

hey. so the news from my end.....
Saturday - got up at like 7am, had a shower and headed over to my friend Beautiful Mary's house where she straightened my hair, and did my makeup - cos i'm poo at stuf like that, and she has GHD's, so its all good! Ooh and I got a nice new haircut on thursday, which was actually really enjoyable, and it looks good man - whether i leave it curly, or straighten it!so Hoooray!
Anyway, so then I went and got a train to Liverpool - possibly the slowest train in the world. Arrived there and was picked up by Dan, and we went to the house with the groom and all teh ushers and stuff and got changed, and then went to the church. The wedding was so nice, Sarah was half an hour late, but it was all good, and she looked so beautiful. The service was good, had a good balance of evangelistic stuff which was cool. I was sitting next to Dan's grandma (Mamgi in welsh apparently - dunno if i've spelt that right!), and she's a dude, she's so funny and welsh!! The reception was well posh too, they had it in Sefton Park, in this massive glass house. Dan was good and looked after me, and lots of people talked to me if i was on my own , cos i didnt know anyone but Dan! His welsh cousins were amazing too, they were on our table, and we just hit it off straight away which was marvellous!

Yeah so after the fun-ness of the wedding, we went to their marital home, where all the siblings and girlfriends were staying. Next morning me and Dan had to pick up the bride and groom and take them to the airport on our way back to Manchester. We then just chilled out for the afternoon. Dan fell asleep for like 2 hours, and then we went over to our friends' house to pick them up to go on a road trip to "COCKERMOUTH" (its in Cumbria). However, we first took some books over to my friends house, and witnessed a break in, so had to wait around to give statements to the police, which they didnt even end up taking! so we didnt leave for cumbria till late, and then got to Tim's house there at like 1230. Was cool tho, the stars are amazing up there, seriously! Got up early the next morning and climbed up a mountain, and then got back for lunch and chilled out. Went for coffee in Cockermouth town .....had our photo taken next to the town sign (how old are we, seriously!) ...Oh yeah man, late at night we played sardines in the dark in his house, which was crazy fun seriously! The next day we drove down to Barrow-in-Furness to see my godson on our way back . He's 5, and such a dude!! I was scared he'd like the boys more than me, but NO NO NO NO! hooray! i'm still number one!

Yeah so then we drove back, and chilled out at Hazel and Tim's for a bit, before retiring to bed. What a lovely few days!

So in other news.....New soul survivor album is cracking! Have reskinned my drums, they sound FIT.....I have a new phone, with a video camera, its sexy! My ipod broke :( but i'm sending it off to be fixed and get a new hard drive! Thats all for now FOLKS!

2005-10-24T19:32:00.000+01:00

hello all, just taking a break from reading up for an essay on the Conservative Party's electoral success between 1885 and 1906, FUNO! Sorry for the lack of updates, i'm just rubbish at getting round at writing anything! So..my news....hmm. Well so everything is going wonderfully, church is amazing, CU is great - really exciting, things are going wonderfully with my boy, uni is uni but yeah man, its not really why i'm here! In our church we often have people who share words of knowledge for people, a couple of weeks ago this dude told me that he believed i was called to working for God abroad...so thats very exciting, but quite scary man! I really love my church man. (luke if you're reading this......COME TO SMCF MAN!!!) I'm going on "ladies Encounter" weekend in november which is with ladies from church where basically God can just do business with you. Its proper hardcore - like no mobiles or anything, and you have to prepare and stuff before you go. Its scary, but should be amazing!
It's Dan's sister's wedding on Saturday which i'm going to. Should be good, although its kinda scary cos i dont really know any of his family. Spent so much money on an outfit, but its all good man! Dan gets their car while theyre on honeymoon, so i think we're gonna go on a roadtrip BABY!
The hall group i co-lead is amazing too man, we had 21 people there last tuesday, its really exciting! Ooh yeah and at church over the next year i'm doing this course called "leadership Training" which basically is a course for the whole church to understand the church's vision, and be equipped for when revival happens in Manchester (which we fully believe it will - but my church has realised that if it does, we won't be equipped and ready to lead the people). Sorry i'm rubbish at explaining!! But anyway, yeah its really good, always gets me thinking about stuff.
There's just a little update. I'm sorry if i repeated stuff i've written about in other posts.
LOVE YOUUUU!!!!

2005-10-13T01:02:00.000+01:00

Check this out people...its a video of me at soul survivor, doing diabolo tricks...ROCK ON!

http://media.putfile.com/DSCF0127

2005-10-10T12:43:00.000+01:00

yoo-ha-looo!
Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates...shame on me! Our internet in our house still isnt working...grrr...and the boys get angry when we talk about it because they've spent days trying to fix it! Anyway, am just killing some time before I meet up with Dan to go to subway...MMMM!! So whats been happening with me? Well..came back to uni, was crazy busy during freshers week doing freshers events with CU and just catching up with people. We do have some amazing freshers though, seriously. The last 2 CU's there were 150 people, and at houseparty (weekend away) there were like 90 people. CU has been amazing recently too, the bands have been great - i been drumming with my acoustic kit, which is so much better but a huge hassle to get it there in the first place. And yeah it just feels like theres a whole lot more freedom which is amazing! Oak house small group was good last week too, when we had our first proper meeting. We've got some really passionate and excited guys which is wonderful! Will take a while for us to get used to leading and writing the bible studies, but it should be good man!! I've been to the cinema like 5 times already because we got loads of free tickets at the freshers fair. Its so good!
Oh yeah, more news....I'm hopefully gonna be going over to Malawi with a team from CU next summer for up to a month. I reckon it'll be proper amazing!! Especially in the aftermath of this famine that's happening at the moment, there will be so much we can do over there.
It was my parents 25th wedding anniversary celebration at the weekend, we just had a meal with old friends which was really nice, and now my parents have gone to Madeira...how lovely!! Some kind of 2nd honeymoon i think.
My course is going ok, 2 of my modules i really like - " A liberal Nation? Britain 1885-1990" and another one on British women in about the same period. Those two are really good. I'm also doing "Body and Society - CHristianity in the West 300-1500" which is so much harder than i'd anticipated! Its a theology and history course, and so far we've just had the theology lecturer who just talks in language i dont understand! GRR! Oh well! i'm sure it'll get easier!
My new house is cool - well living with my housemates is, but the house is kinda skank. They didnt clean it before we moved in, so its kinda filthy. Oh and the heating doesnt work, so i'm not liking being cold!! Hopefully it'll get fixed soon though.

Anyway people, i'm gonna do some actual work now...post me some comments!
xxx

2005-08-27T15:33:00.000+01:00

hello all!! Well i got back late on Wednesday night from Soul Survivor. It was so fun! I laughed so much, was great! There were only 7 of us from uni, but that was really nice and chilled. Me and Jo and Hazel drove down on Saturday, got stuck in horrendous traffic, but found amusement in dancing crazily to some old CLASSICS! yeah man, oh and laughing at this one car who were laughing at us. ANyway, yes, so Soul survivor was great, we had 2 gazebo's, one of them Jo named Gazeebee...what a beautiful name - it was a FIT gazeebee tho, it had sides and everything. Our campsite was such a student campsite tho, it was such a tip man, was NEVER clean! Oh yeah, so we had a couple of sunny days, and quite a lot of rain and wind....during the rain we discovered that my tent (which i was sharing with Jo and Hazel) didnt actually keep out water. So that was fun, and then the door broke, so the door had to stay open in the wind and rain....MMMM! Oh yeah, we had like 60mph rain on the last day, and both gazebo's got picked up and turned upside down onto Malachi's car!! HAHA. oh yeah, but Gazeebee broke, and died - it was a sad moment for all.

Other amusing moments were when me and Malachi went in his car to the nearest train station (only like 4 miles away) and the engine overheated, so we had to stop, walk to get Ashley from the station, and then call the AA. The AA man was such a DOOD! He just took the mick out of us all, so i took the mick back - i mean, he was a proper somerset man, kept saying "tractoooorrrrr" yeah man! SO a journey that was meant to take 10 mins, took 2 and a half hours. Was great fun tho! When we got back to the campsite and people wanted to know what happened, i made up an amazing story which some of them even belived!! It had a bear in it, that ran over and started tickling ashley, and then there was a bottle of ice cold water on the side of the road put there by an angel....seriously, how gullible are some people!

Anyway, so then Ashley put up his tent...oh man, its so random! It was only the size of one man lying down, and didnt even have an inner tent bit. It kinda looked like a SLUG. So we called Ashley "sluggy" for the rest of the week, was so good. Anyway, before he even got a chance to sleep in it, me and Jo decided we were gonna sneak into it and wait for him to go to bed and then surprise him. So we told them all we were gonna go and see my sis in her caravan, and snuck off. Then we went back and crawled up to the sluggy tent - we had to be discreet cos they were all in gazeebee which was right next to the door of sluggy tent. The we discovered we couldnt get the zip open, so decided instead to un-peg it, pick it up and run with it, and then pitch it somewhere random, and lie in it. only trouble was that as we pulled out one of the pegs, we discovered that that was what kept it up. so we just grabbed it all and ran. Oh my. It was funny at the time man, we couldnt stop laughing!

Yeah so there were lots of well hilarious hyper moments. There were also lots of great meetings, and God was doing some amazing stuff. Some of the new songs we did were just amazing...like this one...the lyrics just ROCK MAN!

See this love nailed onto a cross

perfect and blameless life given as sacrifice

See him there all in the name of love

Broken yet glorious

All for the sake of us

This is Jesus

In his Glory

King of Heaven

Dying for me

It is finished

He has done it

Death is beaten

Heaven beckons me

Greater love no one could ever show

Mercy so undeserved, freedom I should not know

All my sin, all of my hidden shame

Died with Him on the cross, eternity won for us

Such love, Such love, Such love is this for me

Yeah man, what a TUNE! The talks were really good also, one of them about the shepherd and the wisemen at the birth of Jesus i really liked. It was about how they worshipped, and for what reasons. Was v good. One of the nights they did prayer for the gifts of the spirit, and in particular the gift of tongues. I went up for prayer, it was great man, the holy spirit was just totally meeting with me, and i started praying in tongues. Its such a release...like I can totally express exactly whats going on in my heart, even if i couldnt put it into English. God totally spoke to me about other stuff too, which i've been trying to sort out, and obviously can't do at all without him.

Right, so, Am home now, went back to work last night. I'm drumming at church 2moro, it's so fun, the drum kit over there is AMAZING! oh and i bought a djembe drum from soul survivor too, its way cool! Dan's coming back from Canada on Tuesday, and is coming over here for a couple of days. Then on friday i'm going to Manchester to meet my friends and then we're off to SCOTLAND baby! LOVELY!

2005-08-10T18:08:00.000+01:00

The excitement of the new Switchfoot album is just dawning on me. I followed a link from Josh's blog to listen to the new single "stars", and seriously am well excited now! The Beautiful Letdown is still one of my favourite albums. I couldnt put a finger on why, but something about it just gets me, no matter how much I overplay it! i've pre-ordered both that and the new Delirious album from the Fierce Distribution shop, so am excited about getting them now!

In other news, my week is going quite well. I am really tired, but catching sleep when I can, so it's ok. Also flukily managed to get the whole of next week off, so I'm off until after soul survivor which is great! Then i'm only back for about a week before I go to Scotand with 3 of my uni friends, which hopefully will be lovely and relaxing, and beautiful! So not too much more working until I go back to uni on the 13th Sept (can't wait, i really miss it - i do love it here, but want to get back to normality in a way). I'm very much looking forward to Soul Survivor. NOt as much as normal for some reason, but it should be good, and i'm hoping for some great times with God. My church here has about 60 young people going, which is pretty amazing for such a small town church, and i've got a few uni friends too, which will be nice.

I love you all, see you soon. Write a comment if you're gonna be at Soul survivor B BABY!!! Oh and Luke if you're reading this and are going to SSB, u should come and meet some Manchester uni people, cos you're blatantly gonna get in!
x

2005-08-06T17:51:00.000+01:00

Well. It appears that my blog has been infiltrated by someone very RUDE! Her name is Rude Miriam, she is....RUDE! Seriously man, RUDE!! But I love her. Yes everyone, meet my beautiful bestest friend Miriam Duncan, known to many people as simply "rude" for obvious reasons! Anyway, enough of that! I've had a well good, but well tiring couple of weeks. My friends from uni came to my house in Kenilworth for a couple of days which was fun, we didnt really do anything, oh but me and Dan THRASHED everyone at monopoly! yeah man! Yeah, so Dan (there u go Miriam, as you so wanted me to talk about lovely Dan!) stayed on, and we went and picked his friend from school in Kenya up from the airport, after a day chilling in Bristol, and meeting all his church friends, which was fun! Yeah so we went to Warwick castle, and then on the next day shot up to beautiful Manchester, met up with some people (stayed at Rude's), went shopping, starbucks BABY, etc etc. Drove back to Kenilworth on the sunday, and then i had to work till 9, then we went back to Bristol, where i met Dan's parents, that was cool. Then drove to London to see more of Dan's friends and take Sean back to the airport in the middle of the night. Came back to Kenilworth at 7:30am, went to bed, then got up and Dan went off to fly to the US for a month!
FUN FUN!
I've just been working really since then. Have a ridiculous week this week. Worked on Friday night, then all day today (12-12 -am just on my break), then 3-12 tomorow. Then i'm working 3 nights next week, as well as getting up for 9am every day to do Holiday Club. Seriously i think it might kill me. Have an evil cold as well!!! grrrr
Anyway, gotta go now, back to work!
x

2005-07-14T18:49:00.000+01:00

Hello! Well, i just realised it's been about 2 weeks since I last posted, time has kind of flown! So what have I been doing since beautiful Cyprus? Well, working mainly, which has been pretty good really, despite slightly stressed moments!! Yesterday I did my first 12hour shift, which was surprisingly good! I was working with some of my favourite people though so it was pretty good. I think I also had more breaks than I would on a 6 hour shift, which made it nicer, especially in this heat! I went to Manchester for two days at the beginning of this week which was great as quite a few of my friends are still there cos they're doing nursing. Was really nice to catch up with Miriam, i forgot how much i missed her!! I did get off the train and just suddenly remember how much I love Manchester, just as I walked along the street in the beautiful weather. It reminded me too of how much God loves that city too, and you can see the desperation for him in that place, and how important our role is in serving him there. Yeah so that was a great couple of days. On sunday, and monday and tuesday a few friends are coming from Reigate, havent seen them for SO long, so will be nice! Me and Heather are throwing a bbq for all our church friends on Saturday too, which will be really fun i think!

God brought to my attention the story of Mary and Martha the other day. It was really obvious that he wanted me to see it and take notice. The main thing i got from it was that I really need to spend more time just in God's presence, just allowing him to speak to me, and just chill with him really. Sometimes I think we are content doing all the "CHristian things" and are just so busy doing things that we don't have time just to listen to him and just to BE with him.

anyway, must dash!!

2005-07-05T18:19:00.000+01:00

Hello!!! Well I'm back from Cyprus, actually got back on Saturday morning. Had a great week man, the weather was wonderful, the kids were dudes, the parents were lovely, the company was great. I'm just going to tell you some highlights, can't be bothered to go into too much detail!

Spending 2 whole days on the beach - it's weird because I lived in Portsmouth, but I've never ever spent a whole day at the beach. I'm now quite tanned, which is exciting for me!
Judith's handprints - yeah so on the first day at the beach, Judith (northern Irish, therefore quite white skinned, or "fresh" as a Cypriot woman described her!!) got quite sunburnt, and while looking at her lovely legs, i noticed that she had a handprint on both legs!!! how hilarious!! seriously man, i kept remembering them and cracking up - although they never went...i think they're still there!!
The roof, the roof, the roof is on FIRE. Yeah so maybe not, but I had lots of fun on the hotel roof, looking at the stars, looking for shooting stars, looking out over lovely Larnaca!
Naked Ladies. Yeah so, apart from the fact that there were lots of topless ladies on the beach, there was one in particular who we got a lot of entertainment from! So to cut a long story short, we're sitting outside the hotel at like 930 and chatting, and then a woman pops her head over her balcony to tell us to shut up!!so ok, we quieten down a bit. Then, like usual, we go up to our rooms just before we go onto the roof. Anyway, so we realised that you could see that woman's balcony from Dan's room so we went to look - just to see her lying NAKED on a matress on her balcony, ASLEEP!!! crazy Fun!
The kids - man they were dudes!! So cool, but they did take the mick out of my accent rather a lot!! Beautiful kids though, they said some of the most crazy hilarious things!!
Amazing missionary stories!! YEah man, some of those dudes have amazing stories...one i thought was amazing in particular was told to me by one of the older missionary kids, it's too long to repeat but yeah man!!!
God's amazing, perfect timing!!! I'll leave that one at that for now!

Ok well thats all i can remember at the moment, although I'll probably kick myself when I remember something really big and important!!I'm gonna post u some pictures, although not of the kids cos maybe thats some privacy thing...blah blah, i dunno!

2005-06-23T15:32:00.000+01:00

Hello!! Oh my goodness, God is so good!! I have had such a good week, and it's just totally because God has provided for my family!! I started work last Saturday and it was hot work cos it was so muggy, but it was great! I've worked every other day except Monday, when I went to a bbq with some of the student-age people from church. Heather (my sis) came too, and it was just us and a load of guys for most of the evening! Was really fun though, we both totally let go and chilled out with them. They are some of the funniest guys i've ever met! Yeah so since then they've been inviting us to all sorts, lots of it i couldn't make though because of work, but often they ended up in the Green Man anyway so I saw them all after all. Work is great - most of the people that work there are 18/19/20 ish, and so we all just have a laugh. The first few shifts i was just on food running, but then they decided to teach me the bar while it was quiet. Oh man!! the bar is so fun!! (at least it is when it's quiet) and everyone was really patient with me, which was good! One of the guys from work found out that i was new to the area and didnt really know anyone so he took me shopping in Leamington - was cool..and we ran into another guy from work there too!
Well thats all for now, I'm off to Cyprus tomorrow, HOORAY! can't wait, although i'm already quite tired! anyway, catch u later!

2005-06-14T19:29:00.000+01:00

IT'S OVER!!!
Yes that's right, my first year at the beautiful University of Manchester is OVER!! It's really sad, I don't like it. Got back to Kenilworth today, so am feeling a bit weird at the mo, like I am still expecting to see my friends soon and stuff. oh well, I expect I will, it's all good! Had such a good last couple of weeks - went to the "bop" a couple of weeks ago with pretty much all my really good friends (although not ALL of them) - people from CU, most of my flatmates, my coursemates, next years housemates - it was great. If i can work out how to do it, here's a pic from it...it's a photo of a photo tho, so might be POO....This is Miriam, Me, and Hazel...

Yeah so I went to Cardiff that weekend too, with Miriam Woo, we stayed with my sister, and went to her church in the morning, and then to her student event thing in the evening. It was really good, and me and Woo were even invited to share some stuff that's going on in Manchester. So that was cool. Last week was really busy, got together with Dan for 2 days to sort out our bible studies for Cyprus (which, by the way, is in 10 days!). Then i had to pack up my room :( and Mum came and picked all of that up and brought up my acoustic drum kit - FIT.

Then we went to CU houseparty, which was really fun man, how could it not be when you're away for a weekend with some of your closest friends! Then I stayed in Manchester for a couple more days, had loads of fun staying with Miriam - rude girl, and chilling out with Dan and Ashley, Ben and Curly Rach. These are from Houseparty...Dan, Me, Miriam, Miriam Woo, Bangerang Peter...

Miriam Woo, Miriam, ME!

Well there you go for now!!

2005-05-31T18:49:00.000+01:00

alright. The last weekend was really fun actually. Nice and sunny, played some frisbee, had 3 barbeques, chilled out with people. was really nice! Have my last exam on Thursday, although i realised that i only need 26%, so I havent really done that much! oh well!!

I love it when you listen to a song you've heard so many times, and it just speaks to you like it never has before. Happened with one of Switchfoot's songs today. I'm a little confused about some stuff at the mo, and it was well reassuring to see that other people get in the same situation. innit.

anyway, i'm sorry this post has been really insubstantial and boring!

Just finished reading "the edge of Glory" by Charles Carrin- very good book, the holy spirit man - rocking!

Just started "God's Big picture" (or something like that) byVaughan Roberts.

Thought u might like to know!!

2005-05-24T13:51:00.000+01:00

Hey. I don't really have much to say at the moment. It's exam period which is cool. I'm actually not remotely nervous or stressed about them which probably isn't good because it means I keep not revising! Oh well! Yeah, so i've been having fun, went to see Star Wars, that was good, although I was quite tired (my body clock is still only just recovering from the Prayer Room). I went to the pub yesterday to watch the Lions match with Miriam and Rick. That was good - good old Johnny. Hmm...actually, did we win or what? I had to leave just before the end because Gill phoned me from Reigate. Yeah, that was wonderful, we spoke for about 40 minutes. I haven't properly spoken to her since Christmas because she was doing gap year stuff. Yeah so that was nice. Made me miss her though. You know when you forget how much you actually miss someone until you see them or talk to them again? Well, I must go and do some more revision. Just quickly though, buy Hillsongs United new album - it's so good man, I love it. Was so good to drum to when i went home at the weekend! Oh yeah, went to my new church in Kenilworth on sunday which was really nice - they had about 10 baptisms, all of young people, in a swimming pool! was great!!

Anyway! seriously, how easy is it to get distracted from revision. I'll leave you with a quote from St. Augustine (he's such a dude, i keep finding amazing quotes while reading it for my revision!)

"When I love you, what do I love? It is not physical beauty nor temporal glory nor the brightness of light dear to earthly eyes, nor the sweet melodies of all kinds of songs, not the gentle odour of flowers and ointments and perfumes, nor manna or honey, nor limbs welcoming the embraces of the flesh; it is not these I love when I love my God. Yet there is a light I love, and a food, and a kind of embrace when I love my God - a light, voice, odour, food, embrace of my inner man, where my soul is floodlit by light which space cannot contain, where there is sound that time cannot sieze, where there is a perfume which no breeze disperses, where there is a taste for food no amount of eating can lessen, and where there is a bond of union that no satiety can part. That is what I love when I love my God."

2005-05-16T18:36:00.000+01:00

Paintings

2005-05-16T18:35:00.001+01:00

I well liked this one

2005-05-16T18:35:00.000+01:00

Painting -beautiful

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A painting someone put up in the Holy of Holies

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nice little corner!

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The "holy of holies"

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Half of the "world" wall

2005-05-16T18:30:00.000+01:00

The "worship" wall

2005-05-13T12:10:00.000+01:00

hello!!!Oh man, this week has been so amazing!!The slot that I normally do (12pm-2am) started off with just 3 of us at the beginning of the week, and last night there were 13 people in there!!Seriously it was so amazing, at one stage, the music stopped and the holy spirit fell in such a powerful way. All you could hear across the room was people praying in whispers, but such determined whispers, crying out on behalf of friends, and on behalf on Manchester. I can safely say that it was one of the most beautiful sounds i've ever heard! People have been bringing friends too - last night Miriam brought 2 of her flatmates, and one of them totally poured his heart out to her and gave her an opportunity to tell him the gospel. I took one of my coursemates along, he's in a bad way really, and he just came and had a look. pray that he'll come back later in the week. Tuesday night was pretty amazing for me, God was really ministering to me in there, i was totally crying my eyes out, and Jude was praying with me. One of the great things about that room is that God is raising up a generation of people that are getting excited about the gospel, excited and passionate, things we've been praying for for so long! I also found out last night that a beautiful, amazing student called Dawn had been praying for ages for new first years who are passionate for prayer, and she was particularly praying that a 24-7 prayer room would rise up. How amazing is that!! God's been teaching me so much this week, particularly humility, and that i really do need to give EVERYTHING over to him. I need to kind of empty myself of all of me, and be filled with him. CHrist in You the hope of Glory!

2005-05-10T13:33:00.000+01:00

wow!!The prayer room has taken off like I never expected. People come in for their first shifts and stay for 3 hours or more!! I personally spend the day just so excited about when i'm next in the prayer room, and totally praying all the time!! God has already given us opportunities to tell people about him through it. On the first night, 2 security guards came in to check on it, and they had to wait for security to verify that we were allowed in there. While they were waiting, we invited them in, and they had a good look around, and I feebly tried to talk to them a little about the gospel!! how awesome is that, after only 4 hours of praying he's giving us opportunities! Also, I took one of my flatmates to have a look around - she thought it was totally beautiful and was raving about it to my other flatmates. She also saw her name on the wall as someone we were praying for, and was well happy about it!!! Then last night another flatmate, Maxine came up with her boyfriend. She looked really affected by it, but because Kevin was with her, she couldnt stay long, but she whispered to me that she would come back later in the week with me. She seemed just so amazed at some of the stuff on the walls. Yes, please pray for Maxine, Lauren, Kevin, and the security guards!!

Last night i went in from 11pm-2am. Ashley was in there already, and some other people. Ashley leads Oak House cell group with me, so we decided to pray together for Oak house, the cell group, then it just exploded into praying for whatever God put in our hearts! everytime i prayed i just felt the holy spirit in that place, it was amazing. Other people in the room joined us, and we must have been praying like that for up to 2 hours give or take some random dancing around the room in worship times!!

Oh man, i'm just so excited!!!Can't wait for tonight, we're having oak house cell group in there from 6-8pm, and then i'll go back for my usual midnight- 2am slot -WOO!!!
I love that God has totally humbled me too, like there is NO way i could take any of the credit for this - it is totally in his strength that this is happening, and it's wonderful!!
OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!!!

2005-05-08T22:25:00.000+01:00

Hey, I have just got back from the launch party of 24-7!!! It's so exciting, the room looks great, and people are getting really excited about it. It has been hard though, but obviously the devil will do anything to try to discourage prayer because it's so powerful. I felt really attacked yesterday, and to be honest just wanted to give up. Then got a really unhelpful email from one of the older people in CU. However, I prayed with both Miriams about it and really especially prayed that I would sleep well and wake up refreshed with new excitement and enthusiasm. It totally happened - it's weird because I haven't been sleeping well at all!! God also reassured me in dreams of what he's doing, and is going to do in Manchester. I also had 3 really encouraging emails, and the talk this morning at church was so reassuring and exciting - al about how the harvest is ripe!!
Yeah, so please pray for 24-7 prayer, pray that people really love it, and that God takes joy in it. Pray for the spiritual battle, and protection from attack. Pray for revival in this place, and pray that God makes our hearts ready for it....Send revival, start with me. Thank God for how amazing He is!!
I'm giving up msn for the week, but if I sign in, it's because my computer does it automatically, but i should sign out after!! I'll keep in touch though, through email, and my blog.

2005-05-03T11:46:00.000+01:00

God disturb the comfortable
So we will comfort the disturbed
When we see the fire of Your love
We can believe the tide can turn

Light it up and let it burn
LIght it up and let it burn

Love burn up our apathy
Love burn up our excuses and our pride
Love keep us from hollow prayers
And change our empty words to action in our lives

Light it up and let it burn
Light it up and let it burn
Its time for things to start to turn
Light it up and let it burn

Oh our time is wasting
Oh time, everywhere on every shore
We close our eyes and shut the door
Don't change the channel anymore

I was just walking back from uni, listening to my ipod and this song came on. I've never really fully listened to the lyrics to it, but they are amazing!! I really want it to be our prayer that we don't get apathetic, and that we don't make excuses or get proud. I really believe the tide is gonna change here in Manchester, and I'm looking forward to the day when that happens. 24-7 prayer is going to be amazing!

2005-04-28T00:01:00.000+01:00

The story starts last Wednesday when I took the train back to Kenilworth for my Dad's institution at our new church. I took the train, and took the opportunity to listen to my ipod and read "red moon rising" pretty much all the way through. Eventually I got back and the house was buzzing with people from all different places in our lives, Portsmouth, Reigate, before I was born...Dad's uni friends, everyone man! Was really good to see them, and I didnt realise that Gary and Clare (my godson's parents) were going to be there, so that was very exciting too! The service was so good!! everything about it, the bishop is a dude ( and i told him that to his face) - he even spoke about "red moon rising" which i thought was wonderful!! It was just so lovely, and afterwards, loads of the young people came and introduced themselves to me, and so that was cool to know that they will be up for meeting up in the summer.

I came back to Manchester the next day and read more of the good book! All the way through reading it God just put so much excitement and anticipation in my heart, and even when I was like "yeah thats all very well, but would a prayer room work in Manchester - like would people go, how would we find a place for it?" etc etc, he just kept talking to me....in fact at one stage i'd kind of drifted into thought and then back into it just to hear on my ipod Switchfoot singing "i'm not copping out" over and over again. Hmm....i think God was trying to say something! Yeah so to continue the story, 2 of my uni friends were also really passionate about doing it, and had felt God convicting them about it. So we got together and prayed that God would provide us with a room that we can use 24 hours a day every day for a week, in a good location for all the students to get to. So then we felt we should go and ask in the building that has our post boxes in. We went and asked and they were like YEAH! and we can do what we want with the room, we get it for 24 hours even though they normally lock it at 12pm! How awesome is that!

Tonight we had CU and we did a little notice about it which got people pretty excited. Then after some worship and stuff we had a bit of time when people could give words from God. One person got up, and not knowing the obvious link with 24-7, started reading from Ezekiel the bit about dry bones. WOW! how many ways can God show us that he's totally behind what we're doing! SO yeah, in about 2 weeks we start our week of prayer. I'm VERY excited!

Other news, hmm, Oh yeah, well....for a while now i've been kind of not that happy with my church. Just kind of don't feel part of it really despite doing so much in it. Then I found out that Miriam also felt that way. We decided to pray about it, and stick it out for a while. Since then it seems quite clear that we should change churches, and on Sunday we went to visit another one which was so amazing! It was just like we had been there all the time, the people were lovely and we even met some of the non-students! So the deal at the moment is that we've decided that God's telling us to move their, unless in the meantime he tells us really clearly that we're supposed to stay where we are. We're meeting with the student worker at our current church to talk about stuff and basically thank him for church and what he does, and just to explain what's happening with us. Yeah! so thats very exciting!

Oh and (wow i'm writing lots - it's just God's been doing so much recently!) I've felt really convicted recently about actually talking to my friends directly about God, and telling them how amazing it is!! Since i decided i'd do that, he's provided me with so many opportunities, where i've been talking to my flatmates and he'll just say "go on Sarah, tell them about me" and I'll be like "oh no, but i don't know what to say, and i'm not in the mood". Then he'll say "no really, do it!". Eventually I give in, and do it! Its amazing, so awesome!

Really have to go to bed - i havent even told u everything i wanted to either!!

2005-04-19T14:47:00.000+01:00

Review of the last month!!!!

Songs of the month

- Razorlight - Rock 'n' Roll lies

- Andy Park - In the secret

-Chris Tomlin - How Great is our God

- The Killers - All these things that i've done

-Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus - (untitled)

- Train - Drops of Jupiter

Books of the month

- Elisabeth Elliot - Through Gates of Splendour

- Pete Greig - Red Moon Rising

- Werner Holzwarth - The story of the Little Mole who knew it was None of his Business!

Film of the Month

- Hitch!

New thing of the Month

- Layering clothes!! oh my how fun! Especially as it's getting more summery!

- New drum kit!!What a beauty!

- Ultimate frisbee!!

2005-04-16T18:50:00.000+01:00

hey dudes, oh man I had one of the best nights since i've been at uni last night! I txted a load of people, to get people to go to the pub for a bit. So we had like 20 ish people come, all from CU, which was good. Then at about 1030 we all decided to come back to my flat for pancakes, which I cooked expertly! Um, yeah then we just chilled for a bit, and ended up playing Mafia, which I've never played before! good game!! especially if you are the mafia both times! yeah baby! The whole evening was just lovely and relaxed, and for once, the girls were nearly outnumbered by the guys!! Then, at about 2am, people started getting tired, and all but 4 of us left. We were still quite hyper and awake, so me, Nathaniel, Miriam and Dan all walked all the way into Withington, in the rain, to go to Dan's house for hot chocolate! We had some interesting theological discussions and then went and looked at some cool photos before leaving at about 340am. Got to bed at 4, sweet dreams all night long!
All in all, something about the mood that everyone was in, and the just relaxed, chilled-ness, made it such a great night! Might sound boring, but, oh my, it wasnt!

(Sorry if i have gone back to writing just how i think, but i dont have time to think it all out this time!)

2005-04-14T23:14:00.000+01:00

Hey. I just got back from my church cell group, it was really good. We got one of the pastors in to talk with us about end times. Was really informative. He didn't say "this is what's going to happen" but went through the different viewpoints and stuff. I'm reading "Red moon Rising" at the moment - Isaac you will be proud of me! If you don't know, it's about the story of 24-7 prayer, it's very good so far! I've been getting more into prayer since coming to uni, and especially this term as the new exec at CU have been introducing lots more prayer meetings, I just love it. And God's been really moving in CU because of it, and hopefully as we get more enthusiastic and energetic we can make a real impact. Thats all for now, must go to bed!

2005-04-10T11:56:00.000+01:00

"I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious, to stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree with the wind tugging at your coat-tail and the heavens hailing your heart, to gaze and glory and give oneself again to God - what more could a man ask? Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him. Mayhap in mery He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finder-ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch his garments, and smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself"

Jim Elliot - Through Gates of Splendour

2005-04-04T19:31:00.000+01:00

ok I am going to think before I write, because sometimes when I read over what I've written, I write the biggest amount of poo EVER!!

A few pieces of news....

Firstly, we have successfully moved to Kenilworth! Yes, we are in the throws of sorting everything out, and I have lost my cymbol bag (grrrr), but it's going well. We've snuck into our new church and everything is really promising, and the people are so lovely! I have been trying to do my project (an essay 4000-6000 words, on "what was the role of the middle class woman in the nineteenth century and how did it change?" fun!) and i've done 2800, so not far to go really!

I have a new drum kit! My other one is in Manchester, it's electric, but very cool. I'm selling it in the summer though because electric kits lose value really quickly so it's better to sell it now. Someone is giving me their kit. It's a long story, but it's a well nice kit, and i get everything but the snare! So I went out today and bought me a really nice snare on the shop dude's recommendation. very nice! So tomorow i'm going back down to Reigate to pick it up! nice one!

More news... I am going to Cyprus in the summer with a couple of people from CU. This is very cool for me because I haven't been abroad since I went to Atlanta when I was about 9. So I get to go in a plane!! Also, it's cool because we're doing the youth work stuff for a missionary conference. That will be really cool because i'll be able to talk to some missionaries, as I'm thinking that's where God's leading me at the moment. In the late summer also I'm going camping in Scotland with 3 of my closest Christian friends, to a beautiful campsite in Scotland. I think it'll be a brilliant time.

I don't think I have anything to add, that's about it my lovelies!

2005-03-29T14:24:00.000+01:00

hey.
Sorry I haven't posted, still don't have the internet in our new house, it's pretty chaotic. Anyway, got a couple of mins to spare before my time runs out.
So we moved, which was fun-ish. It's not the best holiday ever, as I don't really have any friends, although one of my friends from uni lives here too, and she's been really good, helping us settle in and stuff. The church also has been really good, bringing cards and stuff over, was really nice.
I have my project to do this holiday too, and i'm gonna have to go back to uni a week early so that i can do it, because not having the internet or the library is tricky!
Anyway, thats all for now, bye!
x

2005-03-10T11:17:00.000Z

hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in ages, again have been so busy, and internet is down AGAIN!
What have I been doing? Um, I went home last weekend to see my mumma, which was good especially as it was Mothers' Day. Was weird though, because I didn't expect the house to be all packed up, it hadn't really sunk in that we are actually moving in like 2 weeks! It's very exciting though, I'm quite happy about it. Yeah so, we all went out for lunch and stuff. I couldn't really do much because it took so long to travel down, but it was good to see Mum and Dad, especially after Mum's accident.
We had a really good cell group last week, I can't remember if i've told you. Anyway, yeah, so we decided to have a session of just worship and prayer, praying first for Manchester, then England, and then the world. It was so good, and God was so there by his Holy Spirit. It was quite low key, like just me on guitar, and Miriam on piano. It was great though, and we're going to do more of that I think.
Um, this week...hmm. Oh yeah, more house-hunting! Man this is stressing everyone out now, all my people are just going to end up lumping for any old house, which is really rubbish. We spent like 7 hours yesterday looking for houses, but thankfully I had to go after about 3, cos of CU. It's really stressing everyone out, and people are arguing and stuff. Fun fun!

What else? Oh yeah, CU is getting really good at the moment, its really exciting! we've had some well good speakers, and yeah, its just kind of getting more lively, exciting etc etc.

Hmm I think thats about it, so I'm gonna go do some reading, woo!

2005-02-27T16:10:00.000Z

Left to Right - lydia, Laura,Zee,Jo,Fiona,me,Joy,Jill,Hazel,Judith,Sarah,Tim,Pippa,Miriam,Miriam,Juff, Dan

2005-02-27T15:57:00.000Z

woo! i'm 19 baby!
yes, it was my birthday yesterday, and I think possibly the most exciting birthday yet! It all started on Friday, when me and some flatmates, and some random people went for a curry - mmm, delicious. And then we came back and watched Sister Act 2 - "when Jesus WAAAASHED!" haha, yeah. Then we watched a bit of Roadtrip (so RUDE!), and then it ended up with me, Miriam (a different Miriam), and Hazel, just sitting up talking about everything, until like 3am...marriage, poo, yes, everything!
Oh yeah, at 12 miriam gave me my present, which was cool! so exciting!
The next day - my birthday, wooo - i woke up, and opened the presents and cards that had been sent already - got some stuff for my guitar, a beautiful scarf, etc etc. Then my flatmates gave me presents ( i seriously got spoilt this year man!). I went to help Maxine get stuff from her boyfriend's car, and she decided to drive it - which was hilarious, cos she really can't drive! Ate hotdogs, did some essay. Hazel gave me a beautiful present and card, and then after a while miriam came and gave me some crasy cool stuff, and the most lovely card, with the most beautiful message in it, so I cried!

Hmm....oh yeah then we went to laser quest - there were 18 of us, and it was well fun!! we went, i came, lets say second (or 22nd, whichever) , then grabbed some food. On the way back dropped into moonlight - OF COURSE! and then came back to the flat for some crazy fun times! It was well fun, i loved it loved it loved it!
here's a pic - its a bit blurry, but hey....

2005-02-12T20:22:00.000Z

Hey!
What a week! As I probably said in my last post, it was our CU mission week this week, and it was so awesome. Each day started with an 8am prayer meeting, which was hard for me being a history student!! Then I would tend to go back to bed for about 20 mins before getting up again to go into uni, but most days I only have 1, or a max of 2 lectures, and they are over before 12. So when I was done with uni, I would go find some of the CU guests - who were the coolest, most lovely, Godly people, they were well cool. Yeah, so I'd find them, chill out while they did questionairres (which really scare me, but hey!). The questionairres led to lots of interesting conversations, which is really cool, and lots of those people went to other CU events. Then I was normally dragged over to do flyering outside the union - one of the worst jobs, but hey, you need people who are willing to do that kind of stuff in the name of Jesus! So I did that for a bit, then onto the lunch bars, where you'd get a free lunch, and a talk on some topic, like "does science disprove God", um....can't think of any others, but they were better than that one anyway! Yeah, so after that, a few of us would maybe go for a drink, which was fun. Then home. On tuesday, our CU guests (we had 2 in my accomodation) came to mine to cook dinner for all my flatmates, and any other randoms! We had pancakes and everything! Yeah then we all had to rush off to do all the decorations for OP hall, which despite my worrying, turned out to look well nice!! I was impressed with our efforts. I had to do my testimony on Tuesday which went really well - had some feedback from some of my friends who had interesting conversations with their non-Christian friends as a result! After every evening event we went out, despite the fact that we were getting more and more tired, and the events didnt finish till late, but it was so fun. One thing I love is being part of God's family - man some people in our CU rock, its well cool. I have to say one of the highlights of the week was managing to persuade about 20 people to go to Moonlight (an ice cream parlour) , even with having to walk for half an hour in the pouring rain! It was GOOOD!

God has done some wicked stuff this week, lots of people have signed up to the follow-up course, which will be cool. I guess we won't know the full impact of this week for a long time, but I for one had a wicked time! I've probably missed out loads, but hey!

2005-02-06T22:01:00.000Z

hey guys just a quickie. Sorry I have been neglecting you all, I have been so busy, and my internet in my room is down too - grrr. Its our CU mission week this week, which is very exciting, but very busy, as i'm doing decorations for some of the events, and giving my testimony, and entertaining CU guests (people who've come to help) as well as all the usual Uni stuff (which, lets be honest, isn;t that time consuming!). Also, just got back from my first time of leading a table at an Alpha course, which was good - will go into it more later, but I really have no energy at the moment. Yeah actually, would u pray that i get more energy. Am feeling really drained at the mo, and the week hasnt even begun. On a more positive note, every day it seems that in my prayer time i'm asking God questions and stuff, and then pretty much every day he's answering, in one way or another. What an awesome God we have, he's wonderful, and doing Alpha, and mission week and stuff just re-iterates just how amazing he is.

Thats all for now, c u soon my lovelies!

2005-01-30T17:25:00.000Z

"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."

Augustine

2005-01-27T23:13:00.000Z

Hey,
Firstly I'd just like to say that Isaac Philips is delicious, beautiful, Godly, jolly, wonderful, focused, encouraging, and lots lots more, oh and have you seen him in spandex!? oh my!

There you go. Right, well had my exams, woo! They were fine, hopefully I did enough to pass and everything, i worked hard enough. But Yay, they are over. I was so happy - I left my exam half an hour early, and just walked for nearly on a hour to get where I wanted to be. I could have got a bus, but it was such a lovely day and I had my ipod, so I just fancied the walk. I went to Ivy cells tonight, it was really good, talked about the most exciting stuff like heaven and Jesus' return, things that just make me so excited! Then we prayed about a couple of people each, which was really good. We have the new Student Alpha course launch party on Monday, and I just invited one of my flat mates, will try the others tomorow. I'm leading a table at this course, which I'm really looking forward to, should be a great experience.

Yesterday my Mum went into hospital - it's nothing too serious. The other day she fell out of the loft/attic (whatever u fancy) so that wasn't too good. She was badly bruised and stuff, but didn't go to the doctors until yesterday who told her to go to the hospital because the bruising wasn't going and it was around her kidneys etc etc. So she's just in at the mo, for the second night - they've done tests but haven't had the results yet. It should be ok, I think they're just checking, which is good!

Anyway, i'm so tired, and i get a lie-in tomorow!! Brilliant! Remember, Isaac is beautiful, don't ever forget it kids ;)

2005-01-25T11:40:00.000Z

hey guys and girls. Just a quickie cos I haven't posted for ages. Got back to uni over a week ago, it doesn't feel like i've been away at all! It's exam period at the moment, and i'm stressing out! I never normally do, but it's something to do with this all being unknown. I don't really know what to expect. I have been revising lots, so it had better pay off. I have been getting really tired though - i haven't even been out properly at all, I just can't sleep. It doesn't make it easier when your flatmates have all finished, and are coming home in the middle of the night with loads of people to wake you up! Ah well, it'll be over soon.

What else do I need to say? Um...oh yeah, I was asked if i'd co-lead the cell group in my halls from February, and after praying and stuff I accepted. I think it will be really good, not only for helping me grow in my faith, but also I will be leading it still when we move out and next years freshers move in, so I will know some of the new people, and will be able to help them settle in like our leaders did. I think having a group of Christians around really helps when you're in a new place.

Anyway, thats all, gotta get back to revising. I'll probably post again when my exams are over.

Love yOUUUUU!!!

2005-01-12T20:53:00.000Z

Ok so thats lovely! I did the "which Neighbours character are you" test on www.perfectblend.net , and I end up being Harold! Whats with that! I'm gonna try again.

Ahhhh hahaha, i'm....dun dun derrrr.....

TOADIE!!!

Ok, for all you US people, Neighbours is the greatest soap of all time - I think that pretty much the whole of England watches it - and if you don't, get a life! Anyway, brilliant storylines going on at the moment, so stay tuned!

Thats not the real website by the way, check out www.neighbours.com , if you are remotely interested - which you SHOULD be!

2005-01-09T17:04:00.000Z

My purchases for this week.....

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"The listening" by Rock and Roll Worship Circus - very good, particularly "Untitled", amazing lyrics, i'm liking. Definitely worth you all buying it.

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A "Make Poverty History" bracelet. Very sexy and trendy, and also very important, and a good way of showing what you believe I think. I ordered 5 from Oxfam, but you can buy them in any quantity. Mine fits perfectly cos my Dad altered it - quite easy to do apparently. Buy it Buy it Buy it!!

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Some Adidas Superstars. Should be in everyone's shoe collection. These make a beautiful addition to my delicious Converses and Green Flash. Sexy sexy sexy. Mine have black stripes instead of blue, but black is the new black!

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What's this? Well, I didn't buy the weird looking kids, but I bought some sexy white curtains from some curtain shop. They are for my new room, which is at the moment gonna be pink and purple. "Pink and Purple!!" I hear you cry! well yes, but nice pink and purple, none of this stupid blah.

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Yes thats right! A Shrek 2 calendar 2005! delicious, AND nutritious! And, because of my intelligence I got it half price. Marvellous!

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Someone gave me some love hearts. Delicious, and oh so saucy! haha just joshing, NO LOVE HEARTS BEFORE MARRIAGE!!!

The end. I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember. These are the main things anyway.
The end.

2005-01-04T19:23:00.000Z

hello hello, Hola!
Happy new year to you all, I hope this year is full of blessings for you. Our New Years eve was brilliant. We had 18 people here in total, including some very old friends, my parents knew the adults from Bible college thousands of years ago. We watched some old videos of when we were little, and I'm sorry, but I was the coolest child! When everyone else arrived we ate, and then played loads of games, some of them absolutely hilarious! I was videoing too, and it's weird seeing me on tv. I think my voice is one of the most annoying in the world! We put the Tv on at nearly midnight to see what was happening and did the 2 minutes silence for the Tsunami victims. It was really good. Then when it was midnight we all said happy new year, and then prayed for a while which was very good.

Sunday after New years day, I went to see some friends, went to their church. It was good, we had quite a lazy day, but it was nice to see them all again. Yesterday me and my family all went to see the place we're moving to in March. It was good, the first time Heather and I had seen it. We went straight to the church and had a look around. It was actually really nice - had pews (way less uncomfortable than the ones at St Mary's, but still - they smell). It was really nice and bright building, with nice banners and stuff. Oh, how did I nearly forget? There were 2 drum kits - marvellous, thats what we like to see! We saw the church hall, and a building just for youth which looked really cool. They are all really focused on prayer, which we were impressed with because I think thats something that young people rarely do, or are encouraged to do. We then went to see the house, which I really liked! It's not as big as the one here, but has lots of potential. One of my uni friends who lives in the area came over with her family (her dad will be working with my dad) and I met her twin for the first time. My tummy went really weird - it is strange seeing someone identical to someone you know! For lunch we went to the Churchwarden's house, for lunch with his family. They have 3 kids, age 4, 11 and 14. Lovely kids, the little one was so hilarious! After dinner me and Heather played with the kids for a bit, and then us Connollys left and came back to Surrey, after having taken a detour round some of the local towns. All in all, very positive about the move, quite looking forward to it.

Last night when we got back I went to the pub with my old school friends. It was good, but I was so tired from 2 days of travel and stuff, so I left quite early. I watched the second episode of the Christmas "Vicar of Dibley" which was really good, all about the "make poverty history" campaign, and the white bands, which I have promptly ordered from the internet. You should do the same...click here for more information. Thats all for now I do believe. Ooh one more thing. Got the blood results back - no worries, they said I was "normal". YES!

2004-12-27T15:20:00.000Z

hey, so Christmas is over for another year! I had a great day, got up at about 8 because I had to be at church for 9:10 to practice for the service. Dad had to do the 830 service, so we didn't see him until we went to church, and didnt even open our stockings till we all got back from church. Church was good though, the music was cool, lots of drummy stuff, which was fun for me, and this year there was a great sense of anticipation for the balloon drop, which was quite cool - if only people were so anxious and ready for Jesus' return! Was well good though, and David did a talk on how our names are written in God's book etc etc. For Christmas lunch, we had my godparents, and my grandma, and my godparents son. It was well good, we had turkey AND beef, oh my. I ate loads - but i'm allowed to, i weighed myself when i got back from uni, and i weigh 7stone 8!! Its a bit worrying seeing as i'm 5ft 8. I actually went to the doc's to check if i'm ok, and they did a blood test - i am so bad at things like that, i fainted, and was sick - nice! Anyway, back to Christmas, i got a ipod mini - how sexy, and i've already put loads of stuff on there - very exciting!!! it is well delicious, i love it! We did have big problems with Itunes tho - the cd they gave us worked, but everytime we tried to download the newer version, it pooed everything up, and wouldnt even read cds!But dad sorted it, so its all good.
Yesterday we watched Sherlock Holmes, a new version, and it totally freaked me out. Anyone who watched it would tell you that it wasn't that bad, but I get scared so easily, especially by murder things. I hate them - so, last night, i went to sleep with my light on. Its funny how light brings comfort to people, and darkness is sinister and dangerous. Its cool though, because it makes you think about how Jesus really is the light of the world and what that means. I know what i'm getting at, but i'm not expressing myself very well! oh well. Um...anything else i have to say? hmm....dont think so, so if i dont c u or post again, happy new year!!!

2004-12-21T17:01:00.000Z

hello. Havent posted for ages, sorry about that. News, um, well firstly me and Josh broke up. But don't worry, its all good, we both just decided that he was too busy, because he's always working and all that. We're still friends though, and he got me a really nice copy of "The Message" for Christmas, which I love. Um, I went to see Delirious? on Saturday night, it was brilliant, met up with loads of people, including delicious Lizzi and lots of other people. And we found Dave Wood, how cool is that! i know what he looks like! ANd i got a picture on my phone, but i'm not gonna show u all, Dave is still a mystery ;)
Yeah so the gig was brilliant, i would put it second to Camden last year, out of all the D: gigs I've seen. Only 4 days till Christmas, how very exciting! i love church on Christmas day because our church make it like a party, its brilliant, we have 500 balloons in nets on the ceiling, and at the end, during the worship they all drop and everyone hits them around. Its great! i just think that we should be celebrating Jesus birth, make church exciting for the people who only go once a year, after all, Jesus is far from boring.
Um...i'm sure there's more information. Oh, i'm home for Christmas, as of Friday, missing my peeps and got SO bored yesterday, but now i have revision cards what will stop me from having fun revising and never getting bored again! I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Thats all for now, if i dont see you, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

2004-12-13T18:43:00.000Z

christmas dinner - plus turkey, oh yeahhhh

2004-12-13T18:42:00.000Z

more delicious flatmates

2004-12-13T18:41:00.001Z

delicious flatmates

2004-12-13T18:41:00.000Z

water fight

2004-12-02T17:00:00.000Z

yo yo. well i've had a kind of eventful couple of days. I finished my Greeks essay a day early yesterday so i went to give it in..its all good. I did that so that i could have today free just to be with God and stuff, and thats been really cool.
Yesterday i played drums at CU for the first time, exciting. I'm used to playing at church n stuff, but i always get a bit nervous in front of a new bunch of people. I did get to play Beautiful one, which was wkd - my favourite song to play. ANyway, people said it was gd, so thats cool! then my Oak house cell group came back to Oak house, to make final arrangements for our showing of the passion on sunday. So we get to Squirrels bar, and ask them some questions, and they were like - um...no sorry i've booked a quiz over you! hmm...so we were kinda downheartened at that. We went to a little room and started praying and the Holy spirit was realy there - i think its all good that things get a little messed up, cos for one thing it forces u 2 rely on God more, and also, it shows that the devil is trying to get into it, and that means he's threatened by it. So yeah, we prayed, then 2 of us went back and managed to get the bar for 1pm on sunday instead of the evening - which may be better for lots of people = i already know 2 people who are gonna come! Then we stuck the little posters up on all the doors, and then bed!!

Today was wkd, got up and then just read my bible, prayed lots, went for a walk, played my guitar etc etc. I was mainly looking at Ezekial 47 for some random reason, but it was cool. And also, probably not very random! I got loads out of it (verses 1-12), its really cool.
Anyway, i wrote it all down on a piece of paper but cant really be naffed to write it! I also wrote out my testimony...cos i've been asked to give it at Mission week in February, so thats kinda scary, but cool! and also, got asked by Ben from Ivy if i will lead a table at a student alpha course next term, so that will be cool!!

ya, so i'm gonna go have dinner....i fasted over lunch, and now i'm hungry!

2004-11-27T10:36:00.000Z

howdy hey,
how are u all? I'm good, just got up early - my alarm went off at 938!!!oh my GOODNESS!! yeah, so i'm gonna do a little bit of work before I go off to basketball. Everything is cool here, at the moment all the hall CU cell groups are doing evangelical events - so like yesterday i went to one in Whitworth Park where they had Grill a Christian. Ours is that we've managed to get our bar, and we're gonna have a showing of The Passion of the Christ, and then we're jus gonna have us lot around in case people want to ask questions - i dont think we're gonna have a talk cos i've heard people dont really want to talk or anything after watching it. I actually havent seen it, might have 2 watch it beforehand, cos i think we're all gonna be praying throughout it. At the mo its all essay time - got 3 essays in over the next 3 weeks - thats one a week, should b ok. Innit. Last night i got back and we watched Shanghai Knights - i've seen it before, but tis funny - i love Owen Wilson, he's cool.

OOh, i was doing my bible reading the other night, and i always read this little bit from a little booklet before i read my proper note things. Anyway, the other day it was really cool. It was about judgement, and how "you must give an account on judgement day of every idle word you speak"(matt 12:36). So i was like, ok so i'm gonna get judged, fun fun. But then...and i've never actually realised this before - or at least never really understood it ...."God through Jesus Christ will judge people's secret thoughts" (Rom 2 :16)- Through Jesus Christ - so like, because i've accepted Jesus into my life, he's the filter through which God sees you. So "those in Christ Jesus are not judged guilty" (rom 8 : 1). Obviously my weaknesses still need to be dealt with, but they dont disqualify me! thats pretty cool - i hadnt really thought much about judgement before. So its all good, nice one!

anyway, i'm now gonna start work 20 mins late! haha, brilliant!

2004-11-21T20:16:00.000Z

yo Britney!
Yo Wuss UP girll?

Ah ok, so this weekend, Rob, Al and Gill all came up 2 see me. They are my best friends from Reigate btw ;)
They arrived on friday at like 4, and then came back 2 my flat. We were gonna go the "pjama Bop", but there was a huge queue and it was minus temperature....i'm sure ur not meant to be outside in such temperatures, especially with Pj's on!!
um, yeah so we came back, and they went to buy alcohol, only to find that the shop was shut, so we all got changed and went to Robisnski's...and just sat and talked. Was fun.
Yesterday was better tho....we slept in till like 12:12, and then went into town. Went shopping, tried on random stuff...then went to selfridges and had some Sushi!! yummy! Then later....we were there for ages....later, we came back, got pizza for dinner...ate it, and then went to our cheap student bar, "squirrels" for drinks. They got pretty drunk, funny. They met Lauren, and Laura, my history friends....and Josh. Talking of Josh, i jus took a pic of him 4 u all....but shh,dont tell him...

Yeah so after Squirrels, we all went to Moonlight, the ice cream parlour...at like 12pm ish...and got icecream. We actually skipped down the road, singin and stuff...random!
and then we came back, said goodbye 2 josh, and then messed around in the flat 4 ages, was hilarious! and Jo was with us...my flatmate...she's delicious

Urm, yeah me a grill were up well late talkin, and i think the boys were 2. Went to church this morn, and when i came back they'd gone, but left me loads of random messages, and pictures in the camera and stuff. Bless them, theyre beautiful!

2004-11-13T19:55:00.000Z

It is time

Ok, so there's this guy....his name is Josh

yeah, we're seeing each other

mmm

He's lovely, he's doing medecine, is from Bristol, and i met him at the CU weekend away. Thats the best bit...he loves Jesus...what could be better!

Thats all for now

2004-11-11T01:08:00.000Z

Howdy

This week has been cool. On saturday i went 2 Littlehampton to see my friends. I had to get up quite early to catch the 9 train down there. I read the Heavenly Man on the way - great book, i recommend getting it if u havent already. Yeah so got there at 10ish, and Matt picked me up and we went on a "hot date" to the little cafe for a cooked breakfast - was well nice!! woo hot date - jus joshin ;)

Then we went to the Lush's, and i met Zoe's other brother, who is identical to Rich, its weird. and they are crasy, like truly....crasy! But cool....we stayed there and had lunch, and then went to Gosport to go Go-karting. Littlehampton to Gosport isnt far, but we drove right past where i used to live, near Portsmouth - i still get sad going past it, cos it was a great place to grow up. So we went Go-karting, and i blatantly won!! i wasnt meant to do it, cos i dont have any money, but someone said i had to, to make up teams. Somehow tho, i didnt have to pay, dont really know how that works! But yeah, was so fun, me and Xander had a bit of a go-kart competition, like taking each other over all the time and stuff. Was well good. Oh and before all of this, while i was in the cafe having brekkie, i got a call from apparently Jono, saying he was in Manch, with Shaun (from littlehampton) and do i want to meet up. I was like, hmm....but Shaun's meant to be karting this afternoon. Anyway, so they tricked me into believeing that they were in Manch, and then even Matt got in on it and told me there was a manchester man in the background. So then i turn up at Go-karting and there's Shaun, the cheeky bum....the Welsh person wasnt Jono either, it was some random Welsh geezer!

Apparently that was to get me back 4 tricking him! HAH

So, then that evening we had to go to their church to set up for Tim Hughes the next day, so i went along and helped a bit. Was quite amusing!

Sunday, went to my church in the morn, and then got the train back 2 manch late afternoon - took ages, but i was in the mood for D: so listened to loads of the albums...and read most of the Heavenly Man!

This week has beeen cool, handed in one essay on Tues, and got one in tomorow which i'm meant to be finishing now, but am skiving - it is 12:23, i am tired!!

I got one essay back too - In What ways did the Pisistradid regime in Athens Differ from Other Greek Tyrannies.....i think it was the worst essay i've ever written...but they obviously didnt cos i got the equivalent of a 2 1 !! how cool! i was well chuffed.

Tonight, while skiving off my essay, i went to Ivy Cottage (my church) for this student celebration thing which was 3 churches united, and we just praised God for everything he's doing in Manchester, and prayed into lots of stuff. Someone prophecied that Fallowfield was going to have some wkd stuff going on this year, which is really exciting cos thats where i live! I had some good times with God too, and really felt that he was saying that he's not getting enough of me at the moment. I do read my bible and pray and stuff everyday, but i felt like he was saying that i need to be in his presence more, and like just get to know him more and more so that he can use me more effectively. Might not make much sense, but i know what i'm saying! He also put into my mind about setting a day aside soon just to spend with God - like get out of Manchester and spend a day in his presence alone. Then later in the meeting one of the student workers got up and said exactly that - that we should set aside a day soon for God. I was like wow, thats wkd! nice one God - talk about telling me what u want me to do!

that'll do for now, i think i'm turning into Josh, and i must get back to that essay!!!

2004-11-04T10:14:00.000Z

hey
this week has been cool, got lots of rest, well as much as i can with this stupid cough. grrr
got the soul survivor 2004 album yesterday, its good, but not as gd as last years or the year before. bloomin. it does have a vid from SITC tho, so thats cool.

i never knew a sweeter name before
no i never knew a sweeter name before
i never knew a sweeter name before
no i never knew a sweeter name before

than Jesus, Jesus Christ the Lord
Jesus, Jesus Christ the Lord

wkd song.
urm....i went to see Finding Neverland the other day - well good film, go see it, Johnny depp is a wkd actor, and this little kid is too. so yeah - go see it!!
man i am seriously avoiding work today, its terrible
So....Bush is president again, dont no what to say really - just gotta pray for all our leaders, i think thats what people forget, and its terrible.
thats about it for today, sorry - bit random

2004-11-01T15:17:00.000Z

hello hello.
so i'm home again, back to "sunny" Surrey. ahem, yeah.
We left Manchester at 630am yesterday, and got here in time for church when Dad announced that we're moving house. He got a new job as vicar at St John's Kenilworth, which is kinda near Coventry, and Warwick, etc etc. So yeah, i think we're moving in March, but before that Dad's getting 2 months paid sabbatically thing i think. so yeah, its quite random. Its good that we're leaving, cos St Mary's has been hard for mum and dad, but its still sad - cos i will come home from uni and be like, ooh where are my friends?!!
and i'll miss grill, and al and bob. oh well.
also its ages away from Littlehampton, which is also a bum fart poo. But hey, thats where God is leading us to, so it'll be ok. Anyway, i'm at uni most of the time.
Yeah so i'm on "reading" week this week, so i'm home for the whole week - i'm gonna sleeeeep!
I rang Alex morgan to tel him i'm home and arrange when to go out, and he told me he forgot i was coming and so booked up everyday for working! i was ANNOYED! cos i told him i was comin about a month ago - what a melon . But yeah, after i told him off, a few hours later he rang me up and was like - um, i'm gonna get Friday off work so we can go out
YAY hurrah!
what a star that boy is

Yes. SO um...cant think of anything else to say.

2004-10-24T01:07:00.000+01:00

heeeeeeyyyyyy!!!
What an evening woo!! Spent the best night eva with my flat mate Jo, ( the coolest and sexiest girl in the universe!!)
First Stop was the cinema to see the oh so cute Jude Law in Alfie corrrrrr wouldn't say no!!! After downing a pint of coke and drooling it was off to Mackie Ds to be fat bloaters v.nice!!
Finally we arrived home with a bottle of really classy wine ( £3 ) to watch 10 Things I Hate About U!! What a classic film.!!
And now u few priveleged peeps get to hear all bout our antics on this lil old web page yay!!
Thats about it for the evening folks apart from to say that Girls Aloud are the greatest band eva Oh yeah and Sarah is a big ponce who really fancies a certain Mr...?!? Nudge Nudge Wink Wink say no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lovin u guys alwayz!!!!

2004-10-17T20:52:00.000+01:00

oh yeah, and me and judith found a fun game - how long can u keep your mouth open wide for - its so fun! cracks me up every time - oh, and they are my new pj's - rocking

2004-10-17T19:45:00.000+01:00

ooohhhh

2004-10-17T19:20:00.001+01:00

good morrow childreennn.
oh my have i had the best weekend! I went to my CU weekend away in mid- Wales. It was really weird getting away from Manch for the first time since i've been here, but was so cool to see hills and all that again! We left from here at about 530 on fri and the journey took ages, and Jo really needed a wee all the time, and this very camp guy on the other side of me wouldnt stop singing!!! ahhhhhh
so we finally got there, and found where we were living - in da bungalow, yeah baby. I was sharing a room with Fiona (another fresher - she's cool) and Jill who's on the basketball team, and is lovely, and another girl who i cant remember her name!! Didnt get to bed till 2 both nights so wasnt in there for too long either. on the first night we had a short meeting, some worship and introduction stuff. and then we just chilled for a while, and we played basketball, and got so hot and sweaty - mmm delicious. I looked at my watch thinking it was like 10, and it was 1230!!!! "good gracious" i hear u cry, and that was what i said!!!!
saturday arrived early - bloomin! and we went to breakfast, and then to our morning meeting, which was gd. yeah. urm....and then had lunch and played ultimate frisbee in the muddiest field ever!! and got my converses skanky!
urm, evening meeting, and then went to a bonfire!! and that was fun - except people seriously singing "kumby ya " (sp?) - i was actually cringing! got back to the bungalow, and then stayed up having had a shower, and Judith dried my hair so it looked like an afro!!! and i have a pic of it, but i'm not gonna show u,
the pic below/above is of me, Judith, and Jo....they are the funniest people, and i love them 2 bits
Today, got up for brekkie, and had a meeting, and then roast dinner, and home james, and dont spare the horses!
thats it in a nutshell - what a good weekend!

2004-10-09T13:46:00.000+01:00

hey, i dont have that much to say, had a normal week at uni, lots of reading to do at the mo, which is um....fun! actually one of the articles (26 bloomin pages) was on the first deparment store! was quite funny, there was loads of opposition to it - cos they thought ladies shouldnt shop too much - yeah, ok! Last night i went to the Deputy chair of the CU's b;day party. was cool, there were only 3 freshers there, including me, and i felt so young!! especially when we'd tell them how old we are, and they'd be like awww!! whats with that! crasy!
was nice though, and Debs, the Vice chair is so sweet. Its CU weekend away next weekend, quite exciting! ooh this morning i got 3 pieces of post - one was my copy of my CRB check thing - i dont have any criminal record! wahey! another one was a thing made by joel my godson - a thankyou card thing for his b'day pressie, and his sister made me a fish! how cool! the other bit was a parcel - my Detour 180 cd from Furious records, and i was slightly confused when i found a little message that said -

"i wonder which good looking lad packed this"

haha, then i got another little message which told me who it was from - but its a secret!! mwah ha ha ha!! i'm going out in a minute to watch the football - england vs Wales - i wonder who's gonna win ;)
tonight i dont know what i'm gonna do - Jo wants to stay in i think, so we might just watch some films or something. After the match i should probably do some more reading, but i'm very much not in the mood today. only just over a week until delirious?, all the other gigs sound well good, so i'm lookin forward to it.
I think ive got a bit homesick now - i dont feel that bad or ne thing, just want a hug i think. anyway
byee!

2004-10-07T11:34:00.000+01:00

hey heyy. Back again, has been ages since i last posted. Urm, oh yeah, in just over a week i'm going on the CU weekend away, its gonna be so much fun! i love CU so much. i went yesterday, and everyone is so nice, and delicious, its great. Went to South Manchester Christian Fellowship on sunday morn, it was good, but i think i've decided i'm going to stay at Ivy Cottage - it looks like a cool place., and i really felt at home there. Uni is going ok, reading is building up and lectures are quite confusing, but hey! I went to Alpha on sunday, and got seperated from the guy i was taking, so felt like an imposter - i was on a table of 8 people, 6 of whom were already Christians, so i felt so sorry for the 2 non-christians. Also, the Christians kept dominating conversation, and kinda complaining about their faith, and talkin about it negatively, which is fine - just not at something like Alpha, where we want to encourage people to become Christians and stuff. Blah blah
i went to see Wimbledon with Jo, was wkd - i do love Paul Bettany. ahh uni is so cool - its weird how quickly u make friends, and friendship groups and oh tis wkd!
i've had 3 curries since i've been here, and lots of ice-cream. i think i'm gonna get fat.
yeah, so slators people of the world!

2004-09-28T18:15:00.000+01:00

hey.
yesterday i started lectures, kind of, just kinda introductory stuff at the moment. Was ok though. I had a seminar thing which i had 2 prepare for and everything, and that went ok too. Last night i went to the Alpha Launch Party which was held in a bar, and had some cool bands playing and stuff. It was really good, and it was weird being able to walk along and say hi to so many people that i've met, new students and some older ones, was cool. I've asked quite a few people of they want to come 2 Alpha, the main insentive being the fact that they get a free curry everyweek! Hopefully quite a few of them will come, would be cool. Then after the launch party, which i left at about 11, i came back and met up with my flats in a nearby pub, which was quite fun too. only one more day of lectures, haha, then i have 2 days off, plus the weekend. How much do i rock! haha, just joking, history rocks.
anyway, i have been told that i write like i speak so thats quite exciting. yeah
I went to an Awesome church on sunday morning! it was so good. Quite a small church but lots of students, and they do a student lunch and everything. The worship was really good, they had a great worship leader, who was v good musically as well as leading our prayers and stuff. The talk was also really good, they had a guy from Fusion talkin on witnessing - which was cool, cos thats really on my heart at the mo. They also prayed for all of us students and stuff, and it was such a good service, and everyone was realy friendly.
i Went back to Kings Church in the evening, but i cant get used to that church. Its cool and fine what they're doing, but i wasnt comfortable there for some reason, and kept getting really distracted, so i dont think thats the place for me.
was cool - today i talked about my faith to like 3 people - just people i dont know that well who all brought it up themselves!
cool

BYE!

2004-09-24T17:20:00.000+01:00

hey hey. Yeah, so i have my timetable - will have 8 hours of lectures! haha! rock on!
I went to a Christian Union thing yesterday, a pub quiz with Chris, the other christian, and it was well fun. I thought it would be over at like 10, but it was like 1130 before i left. All night last night there was a party happening in our flat, but i think i missed it mainly, cos they had gone somewhere else for a bit when i got back. ah well.
Today went into town after having a library talk, which was the best hour of my life ever! (jk)
I'm well tired, and i've hardly done anything compared to most people - its weird.
tomorow i think i'm gonna go to a cu picnic, and meet more nice people on the cu. its cool meeting so many new people, and last night when i went to Chris's before the CU thing, we were talkin 2 all his flat mates, and they all brought up God, and were asking all sorts of questions, which was great!
So as they have so many questions i think Chris is gonna ask them if they want to go to the introductory student Alpha course which is on Monday. SHould be cool - so keep them in your prayers, hopefully they will come.
anyway, thats enough, time for neighbours!

2004-09-22T21:49:00.000+01:00

hey!
wow, what a week or so. We came up in the caravan on Thursday, the journey took like 6 hours! But we got here, and then realised that we could probably move loads of my stuff in on friday to avoid the mad rush. So we did, moved all my stuff in, got my keys, and then went back to my caravan, and had dinner with my godmother. Then properly moved in on Saturday, after going to ASDA to get all my food supplies! met some flat mates, nice people - i like them all! one is a vegan which is cool, and he's an animal protester! one of the girls i've really hit it off with, which is good. Found some nice friends doing history too, and at church on sunday i met another Christian guy who is a fresher too, and spent today doin random stuff with him. Tis cool. anyway gotta go, socialising to do!
byeeee xx

2004-09-15T18:42:00.000+01:00

hey , just a quickie. so tomorow i'm off to Manchester, staying wit Mum and Dad in the caravan 4 2 nights, before moving in on saturday. Quite scared, and also quite excited. I would really value your prayers, not just for me, but also for the people i'll be living with. Urm, yeah, so should be online again on saturday hopefully, so until then, farewell my lovelies! speak 2 u next in Manchester!

2004-09-10T19:49:00.000+01:00

me and gill

2004-09-10T19:46:00.000+01:00

oooh yeah

2004-09-10T19:07:00.000+01:00

hey all, sorry , long time no post!
i have had the best week. First of all i went to Littlehampton on Sunday, which was fun. Went to church, and it was good, the worship was good and everything, but lots of people kept turning round and looking at me and Hannah, which was kinda scary. but hey, nevermind. then went to the Lush's for lunch, yummy roast! ooh and then we went to the beach, which was so much fun. It was a really hot day, but i was wearing jeans, so i rolled them up, and me and Hannah, the only non- littlehampton people, went paddling, and then got too wet, so decided just to walk right in up to our necks, fully clothed! was so fun! i got the train home at like 830, and was supposed to get home at 945, but didnt get back till 1140!!!aghh

so that was littlehampton fun!

On monday, til today, i went on a holiday with my school friends to near Ross-on-Wye in herefordshire. We rented a massive house for the week. Was so pretty, i'm gonna put some pics up of the crasiness. so we didnt do much, sunbathed a lot in the well nice weather, and then yesterday 3 of us went for a walk, and found a pub with some young people in!! wow! There were 5 of us in our room, including 2 guys, so that was fun. didnt get to sleep till 2am most nights, so i'm a bit tired now, but hey. I learnt to play Hearts - well actually the Black Lady, which is a well good game, and i rock at it, so dont challenge me kids!

yeah so thats all folks, pics coming in about 5 minutes probably!

your favourite story teller

2004-09-04T17:28:00.000+01:00

hey heyy. I've been well busy since i finished work on wednesday! i went to brighton on thursday with alex, to get Rob's present, and then randomly got invited down to Littlehampton for the evening, and randomly went! was well fun though, and they all drove me back. Then on Friday, they managed to persuade me to go to Brighton AGAIN with them, so i did. And i bought a belt, which is made up completely of poppers!! like the jacket poppers, u know what i mean, and a wallet which is made up of drink carton things - like Capri-suns!
wow!
Today, have just done general random things to get ready for uni, and packed for my holiday with school friends which is monday - friday, to a cottage, somewhere in England, dont know where tho!
Tomorow, back to Littlehampton, to go to their little -known church, for some fun. and i hope we go on the beach, cos its gonna be a HOT day ! YEAH BABY!
No pictures for u today, Aristo the cockatoo went to the vet this morning cos last night his insides were comin out, nice!
Goin out in a minute to somewhere nice - Hampton. yeah, gonna have a MAccy D's .

OOh, i weighed myself today, and i was 7stone 13!!! and i'm 5ft 8!! this is quite worrying, i need to eat more fatty foods man. my BMI is 15.5, and you're underweight if yours is 18.5 or under!!
crasy, so i get to eat loads! hurrah!
anyway, byeee!!

2004-08-30T16:51:00.000+01:00

Me with Aristo - note the Delirious T-shirt, yeah

2004-08-30T16:39:00.000+01:00

hey hey. i'm here with my bestest friend Gillian (Grill face) and we just thought we'd say hi. We are fostering a big pink cockatoo, called Aristo, and his owner is the foreign secretary of Greece! how cool. He needed a special operation, and the best cockatoo vet lives near me. He's well cool and is like a cat that u can cuddle. Yes. I'm going to meet the Queen of Uganda tonight, that is exciting! yeah, so i'm gonna get my picture taken with her, and i might let u see it, maybe, one day, if you're lucky.
I love you, better than ice cream

yeah baby, thats so great, and Grill was in hysterics for ages when she saw it - imagine that, a little ginger crasy girl in hysterics!
I taught Aristo to say hello - was well fun!
only 19 days till i go to UNi - so scared, and i know i'm gonna miss my buddies loads and loads.
Also, only 6 days till i see my soul survivor friends again in littlehampton! hurrah! well exciting. ahhh so yeah, dont no what else 2 write, might come on again laterrrr.
Bye my lovelies!!
Grill says bye

2004-08-22T15:52:00.000+01:00

ok so Soul survivor was well good! There were new main meetings called Momentum for people 18 & over, although other people could go. The normal big top meetings still happened and anyone could go to them 2. Momentum was realy good, mainly cos people didnt clap after EVERY song! um yeah , so God really touched me, i went up for ministry twice i think. first time was for people who had been hurt by the church - and apparently it was heartbreaking how many people went up for that! the second time was because i want God to break my heart for what breaks his heart, and i want to be able to cry for the lost. God came really powerfully both times. the worship was amazing too - especially Matt redman, who seems to have takin everything up a notch.
Cafe Uno was so fun too! i was always serving people and squirting cream, and my cream finger is wel strong! it was kinda annoying though cos people who had worked in CU before were quite bossy, but hey, nevermind!! i got to meet loads of people cos they came into CU to see me! i met .......Jono, Hannah, loads of people from ACC which was cool! urm...Luke. oh and tim hughes tried to get into cafe uno without a badge so i tried to stop him - was fun!
yeah so this was a random collection of thought!

2004-08-21T21:55:00.000+01:00

me with squirty cream!

2004-08-21T18:49:00.000+01:00

hey, just a quick update cos i'm very very tired. Was at ss this week - so fun! met loads of people!
also got results - A in History, A in Art, B in classics, and B in general studies! wahey! so i'm of to manchester
scary
anyway, be back soon to go into more depth

2004-08-13T20:43:00.000+01:00

Me and my team from SITC - note the pink converses ;)

2004-08-13T18:21:00.000+01:00

hey people. I have been told to post more so here u go! I decided to put a pic up of my team from SITC, who were so cool! loved them allll! Um so, no more days of work until after Soul survivor!! yay! cant wait for SS! There are loads of people i'm gonna meet so should be cool. Work is actually well good at the mo...i can do kitchen quotes (which are well complicated) and bathroom ones, and design them and everything, so its well good! So how much money should i take to soul survivor? that is the question. I'm thinking like £70 - and then i can buy lots of cool cd's and bacon butties ;)
mmm bacon
Yeah, so Clare (random) is going to manchester tomorow for her Gap year, which is cool. Hopefully i'll be there for uni, so i'll be able to see her. Yeah so, results in under a week. Not scared yet, just kind of not thinking about it. I dont know what i'll be like on Thursday morn - um, yeah, lets not talk about that!
Tonight is the opening ceremony of the Olympics, yay! my sister is RIGHT NOW cooking Greek food, and we're gonna eat it, while watching the Opening ceremony (i nearly shortened that to the OC, but then, that wouldnt work). blah
urm...i have recovered from SITC now...it took ages, i was so tired. but i have concentrated on sleeping lots so i am not tired before SS, although i know i will be afterwards!

OOh ok, so i went to dinner and came back, while watching the Olympic opening ceremony. GB just came on, well cool, with Tony and Cherie Blair applauding, and Princess Ann. I dont approve of what i've heard of the Americans and their blah with all the drug stuff. Melon farmers! WE're going to support every country which has a British flag in their flag...so like Aus, and all the little random ones. Oh, and it was well nice, when Afghanistan and Iraq came on there was so much applause. And there was a woman carrying the Afghan flag - and 2 women competing for Afghanistan for the first time EVER because they were banned under the Taliban. How cool!

anyway...quite a random post, but hey!

Oh yeah and PS, my dad's cousin got a Gold medal in the Commonwealth games for boxing. cool huh!

2004-08-09T19:43:00.000+01:00

me on the boat....with micky mouse, on my top, yes.

2004-08-09T19:17:00.000+01:00

Trafalgar square - 07/08/04

2004-08-09T19:05:00.000+01:00

As you can see from the post below, Trafalgar quare was pretty packed. It was amazing. In the talk, me and Clare didnt even have enough room to sit down. It was well good. It was mainly worship, led by Tim Hughes, and another guy (who's name i can't remember). The talk was by Mike Pilavachi who was seriously losing his voice, and at the end he invited people forward who wanted to become Christians. I couldnt see how many there were, but judging by the length of time that it took for them to get there, there were lots! Then we were led in prayer, by Louie Giglio, and the head of the Evangelical alliance (again, cant remember his name). That was really cool cos we all turned to face the direction of what we were praying for. Like we prayed for the royal family, the West-end, and the Government - which was cool because i dont think young people pray for these groups of people enough.

Being in Trafalgar square was well cool because all the tour buses passed us, and you could see the people inside looking at what was happening. It was so full too, and mainly with young people - 18000 people were there apparently. I didnt have enough water though, and it was the hottest day i think...with direct sunlight on us all the time, which was pretty hard work. But hey, it was worth it.

Friday's trip on the canal boat was so fun!!! just relaxed, did the locks, sunbathed, ate lobster, dangled off the side of the boat. ahhh luxury!

Anyway, i am skilled at posting pictures now..yay go me! and isaac didnt even have to help me!!

2004-08-05T19:58:00.000+01:00

i'm so tired...i keep going all dozy. i think it's still the after-effect of Soul in the city. blahh. Yeah so, tomorow and saturday i'm not at work. Tomorow, i'm going on a barge!! yeah how cool, someone in our church has hired it for the day, for her birthday, so thats gonna be well cool! and its gonna be really hot and sunny over the next few days, like it has been recently.
On saturday, its the final celebration of Soul in the city...a massive meeting in Trafalgar square. i cant wait, should be well cool, and there will be so many people there.
then in the evening, the lady who is hiring the barge is having a bbq, with lobster and everything...and a massive paddling pool...haha random!
ooh today i witnessed a car crash. There's a zebra crossing right outside the shop, and one car stoped at it to let someone cross. The car behind her coudnt stop and swerved to avoid her, going onto the other side of the road, losing control and driving straight into the belisha beacon, making a huge mess of their car, and all that. Then that car reversed out, and drove away, as fast as it could! no one was hurt...but it was quite a weird experience.
yeah so there u go....wicked nice (i watched Mr Deeds the other day - hilarious)

2004-08-01T16:26:00.000+01:00

Listening to Tim Hughes - When Silence Falls

hey . so i'm still very tired and drained, but still on a high from Soul in the City. And its only 16 days till Soul Survivor!!! This morning David interviewed me at church about soul survivor, which was scary but cool. Last night was the first night i have ever been at home alone for the whole night! i've always been really scared of being in the house alone...i dont know why, maybe because of the whole murder thing when i was younger. But anyway, i got off to sleep fine, and then i woke up at about 1am because there was loads of noise outside, like men shouting and stuff, and it sounded really close (although i dont think it was), and i got really scared. Also because i'd just been dreaming about being murdered and stuff - not very nice. But anyway...so i woke up really scared! But then, God kept talking to me...and i just had this verse going round in my head...

"i will fear no evil for you my God are with me, Strong to deliver, Mighty to Save"

Its so true, and God implanted it in my mind, and i could just get back to sleep much quicker than i ever have before, even when people are in the house.

It was very cool. I love God so much...its all about him, and i want to be in His story.

2004-07-31T16:29:00.000+01:00

hey ! i'm back!! man it was the best thing! it was amazing. i'm gonna try to post some pictures over the next few days, but i lent the cd with them on to my youth minister for church tomorow.

so i was in a group with 11 other people who were the nicest people, and i was so relaxed with them. We were assigned to a project in Richmond, which, funnily enough, was a rich area! We had to redecorate a day drop-in-centre called the Vineyard project, for the homeless, drug addicts, alcoholics etc. Everyday we had a morning meeting in our Uxbridge campsite (3000 of the 6000 people were on that campsite) and had worship, a talk by Louie Giglio, and then more worship and a ministry time. However, because my project was a 2 hour journey, we had to leave early, at about 12... so we often missed out on most of the ministry time, which was a shame.

Yeah so for the first 3 days, before they managed to sort out our transport right, we had to go on the tube, which was a 2 hour journey, very tiring, especially as often we didnt even get to the first tube station till 9pm. Yeah so our project was good...the drop in centre is underneath a church, and kind of involved with the church, but run by non-Christians. It really opened my eyes to this sort of thing...especially as lots of the people there used to be in the army and came out, had nowhere to go, and were so messed up by their experiences that they resort to alcohol to numb the pain.

In the evenings, we leafleted, and went to some of the local events for the kids..which were cool. But i have to say i really enjoyed going on the train journey home, because often everyone from SITC was coming back at the same time, so we'd all cram into the same tube. and all the people on the train would see us all in our SITC t-shirts, and ask us what we were doing. lots of people asked to be prayed for, and there was one story where some guys were talking to a man, and then had to get off the train, but he decided to get off with them, so they could pray for him on the platform, and then he's wait for the next train! Also, mexican waves and stuff on the trains were really fun.

Near the end of the week, i was talking to the leader of the church that we were linked with , and he said that in that week, so many people from the drop-in-centre had asked to be prayed with....many more than usual, and he was convinced that it was our presence - well the presence of God, that had that effect on them.

Apparently there are lots more stories on the ss website...

I am not, but I know I am!

2004-07-25T09:06:00.000+01:00

ok so it is now Sunday the 25th, the day i have be waiting a long, long time for!
i'm going to church this morning, and then going to pick up rachel from the train station, and then having some lunch, and then, at about 130, we're GOING!!!! oh yeah baby!

so ...you all need to pray please. Imagine, if God moves in London so much that crime rates fall dramatically like they did in Manchester - imagine what impact that would have on the rest of the UK, and indeed the world.

yes...i'm excited, i cant wait to see what God is going to do!

see you in a week!

love Sarah x

2004-07-24T11:27:00.000+01:00

hey , get this. i know Shell from Big Brother, yes thats right baby! I went to her primary school, and heather was best friends with her sister, and i was good friends with Ross, her bro. So thats quite cool. I hate big brother though, i think it's disgusting and demeaning, and horrible! like those 2 people that had sex in the house the other day! its so crazy and rubbish, but it's what this world is becoming.
yeah so , there's just a random thought! blah

2004-07-23T19:28:00.000+01:00

Listening to - Scissor Sisters - Laura
Mood - excited! (and impatient!)

hey heyyy. Well i have finished work for the week....one more full day till Soul in the City!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
oh man, so excited. Last night i couldnt sleep because i kept dreaming about granite! random i know!! annoying too. i know that on saturday night i'll be so excited that it'll take me ages to get to sleep...ahh well, probably setting the pattern for the rest of the week!
i'm on webcam to isaac right now. he is crasy! he keeps dancing and stuff for me, its fun! everyone else is boring on webcam....but not Isaac, no way hose (or jose, whatever)
Heathercon (my sis) passed all her 2nd year medical exams so now she's well excited. she's so smart, and is gonna make a great doctor , yes thats right.

go heathercon!

Ch'mon!

2004-07-18T21:24:00.000+01:00

hey hey

so today's lunch with the Warners was really great! it was excellent, we just talked and talked...they are really cool kids, and we got on so well! oh and Rachel is going to SITC the same week as me and is also on the same Tent city. SHe's coming back from holiday early to get to it, and was going to go on the train which would have been really complicated, but now she's comin in the car with me! how cool eh?!

yes, so that was cool

Church tonight was very good too. It was " catch the fire" and was well cool cos we had good music, david preached a great sermon, and last but by no means least, God was definitely there. I went to Covent Garden yesterday (for those who don't know, that is a cool place in london, with interesting shops and street entertainers etc), and it was buzzing! it was so cool. we got a caricature done for my mum's birthday on tuesday. its cool! and we bought other pressie's for other people too. Very cool :) There was a bus driver and he stopped at some traffic lights, and then started singing into a microphone!! how random! but cool! wahey!

yeah so being in london got me thinking about SITC (not that i dont talk about it all the time anyway! ) and its so exciting. it would be amazing if God moved so powerfully in London. Like in this well known Delirious song...

Well it's true today that when people stand

With the fire of God, and the truth in hand

We'll see miracles, we'll see angels sing

We'll see broken hearts making history

Yes it's true and I believe it

We're living for you

This is what i want. That would be amazing in London...do your thing God!

2004-07-16T21:00:00.000+01:00

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yes more pics from Grassrootz....top 2 are of a band called Steve, and the last, is of Delirious?

2004-07-16T20:42:00.000+01:00

Listening to - Delirious Cutting Edge 1 & 2
Eating - Steak, mmm
Reading - Left Behind, The Glorious Appearing - T.Lahaye and J.Jenkins

hey, so i hear the latest trend is to post about 3 times in a day. i just dont have enough to say really. (and also to put things in your blog like i did up above..haha) . Well its only 9 days till soul in the city, wahey! ooh there is new stuff on this post writing page, like a way of uploading pictures. snazzy! i have just tried to upload one ...a picture of me and Alex at our leavers ball, we'll see if it will work, but for now, more talking.
I got paid again today, wahey! It's well exciting. i also designed a kitchen on the computer, which was cool. it's really complicated so thats cool that i could do it. I'm going to London with my sister tomorow, to Covent Garden. Should be cool, we need to get a present for my mum's birthday. I'm well tired...so glad i have the weekend off now. I kinda wish i wasnt going to London, cos it always tires me out more! on sunday, we have the Warner's coming to lunch. the story behind these people is that the parents went to bible college with my parents and my dad, and then came to our church when we lived in Portsmouth, before moving away when i was about 9 or something. They have 3 kids...one my age, and the other 2 a little bit younger. We havent seen them much since then...one of the times was when we lived in B'ham and my mum and their mum found that dead body in the garden. mmm nice. so yeah..they are coming for sunday lunch, should be cool...theyre nice.

2004-07-14T21:44:00.000+01:00

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Oh yeah, i worked it out!! wow how cool! i'm well excited. thanks to James who is hosting these images....

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Ok so thats just a few of my pics from Grassrootz. my alton towers ones were better, if only i'd known how to post pictures back then. i guess i still could. hmm.
ahh whatever
enjoy!

2004-07-11T13:49:00.000+01:00

hey!
so i went to grassrootz yesterday, it was so good!
we got there early and had a wander round. watched "no more horses" who were a bit random to be honest. And we watched a bit of the London Community Gospel Choir, before it started tipping it down! and it was hilarious, cos it made the ground really muddy for the rest of the day, so my lovely pink converses got covered in mud! :(
I bought lots of delirous, and switchfoot, and Steve posters, and a cd for 2.99
I saw Steve twice in one day....ooh and i met up with Rainbow Zebra Fairy from the Steve forum, which was well funny! she's hilarious!
Urm...what else happened? ohhh i saw delirous!! yeah baby! they were so amazing, cos it was a really worshippy gig, and it was really really good! the following is what i wrote on the D: forum..

Yes , oh my gosh it was so great!!
i met live2serve and he gave me Stu G's set list! wahey!
ooh and guess who else i met....yes thats right, Rainbow Zebra Fairy!!! ok so , we watched Hyperfuse, and right behind us, we eventually worked out, were sitting all of the Delirious wives. yeah and we shouted megalythic at Hyperfuse, and none of them noticed except the one with the long hair...who shot us a really evil look! haha...love u Jono

um...yeah, and during Steve, we saw Clare and Tom...but i dont think they knew who we were, cos we were smililing at them, and they kinda looked confused. nevermind eh

urm....oh yeah , delirious? I have to say it was one of the best gigs i've ever been to, because i think they came out having decided that this was going to be more worship than performance. and it was. the setlist was....

Grace like a river
Rain down

and then a little worshippy bit with just singing "great is the lord" for ages, which was well cool.
oh and somewhere we did "i lift my eyes up to the mountains", and Martin forgot the words.

Feel it comin on
My glorious
Every little thing
Inside outside
Majesty
Deeper
God in heaven
History maker

Investigate
There is a light

it was well good. oooh, at one of the quiet bits, my bloomin personal alarmy thing went off, and i couldnt find it in my bag, and it was one of the worst things EVER!
um...i think that's it. i got lots of good pictures again, cos i asked a guy who was against the barrier to take me some pics, and he did, and he winked at me twice! wahey! haha

2004-07-06T20:22:00.001+01:00

hey hey. I have been working since last thursday in a bathroom/kitchen shop. I'm working full time...monday till friday...and maybe i'll do a saturday one day.
its quite cool, as long as i have something to do, and i am getting paid so its all good. All the people are nice too.

It's grassrootz festival on saturday, which should be well good! Delirious? and Steve are there, as well as the London Community Gospel choir! and loads of other people...exciting!
i'm going with Maretta, should be fun.

Only 19 days till soul in the city!

2004-06-29T21:10:00.000+01:00

hey. well my parents dont seem concerned about what happened on friday so thats cool. I reckon it was just me being more photosensetive than usual, cos of the combination of being really tired, them being really intense, um...a little alcohol! not much tho, honest! but still it was scary! oh well, we'll see. But i am so not upset or scared really anymore. so thats cool :)
love Sarah x

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