Adam White

If anybody is monitorng my Facebook status they will have noticed that I have been a little busy and overwhelmed of late. Here is an idea of why…

Friday
After a typical day at work it was time to start the weekend. I did this in style by going and stewarding at a Collective concert again in Wootton Bassett. It was a fun evening with very little trouble, even when the older kids turned up around 9.00 and the atmosphere changed. At the end they had a decent response from the youth and six children gave their lives to God.

Saturday
After a long snooze to recover from the night before it was time to start. First off was the last meeting between myself and Gemma to pray for our Alpha group. We have got together every week and as Sunday is the very last session it was sad to have it come to an end.

This was followed by a swift drive through the flooded roads to Purton to meet up with my small group for a ”Christmas” gathering. I spent most of the time playing on a Playstation and beating the younger children. It sounds mean but they did beat me on the first go!

Then, to cap off the evening, it was into my shirt and black tie to run the PA for our church’s youth’s Christmas party. This is actually still going on as I write this (they’re eating so I thought I’d make use of myself!)

Sunday
Now this hasn’t happened yet but I can still talk about what is happening tomorrow!

As usual for a Sunday it is church which will take up my morning. This will be followed by the very last Alpha session of this course. It has been an interesting three months and I’m looking forward to writing about all that I have seen God do and what God has done with me through it.

Then it is back to work on Monday. Although it my last week before I start my Christmas break. Yippee!!!

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I love Collective concerts. I don’t know if it is because I know the band members quite well or if it is because if one of them is in my small group. All I know is that when they start singing and dancing I get a big smile on my face.

So, when I heard they were going to be doing a mini-performance at my church in front of all of the small groups I got very excited! They only got a 15 minute slot which gave them enough time for three songs and a little bit of talking about who they are and what they do but it was great. The best bit was they got the entire room on their feet clapping and dancing along.

Their next concert is in Stroud next Friday but I can’t be there to steward as I am taking some friends to Heathrow airport but I should be around for their final concert of the year in Wootton Bassett in December. I can’t wait!

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What better way to spend a Friday evening than travelling nearly two hours through rush hour traffic to a school in the Forest of Dean to stand in front of a stage and keep an eye on a room full of hyperactive teenagers as they watch a Christian girl band perform!

Collective are a group of three Christian girls who spend a week in different secondary schools and share the gospel through various performing arts and activities. These weeks culmitate in a live concert for the School on the Friday night.

This is only the second Collective concert I have stewarded at (I have also done backstage guarding for them at Rock the Planet earlier this year) and it is such a laugh. Two of the girls go to my church so I have got to know them quite well which makes it all the more fun to see them up on stage singing and dancing away.

After packing up everything and travelling I didn’t get back home until midnight but it was totally worth the shattered feelings I have today. The next concert I can help with is not until December and Thankfully that concert is in Wootton Bassett so I won’t have to travel as far. Although I have heard that the kids are a lot bigger there and much harder to control. Eeek!

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