Special Greenbelt 09

This years festival was special for a number of reasons. First of all it was the first time that we have been at Greenbelt with a group of people from our church, Holy Trinity Clapham. We had a scare on the Friday evening, due to the landlady of our accommodation not having us booked in to her cottages and at 2 30pm on Friday I had to ring around B & B's in Cheltenham to try and find space for 4 couples and 3 children. Amazingly I did find a place, and only a mile away from where we eventually stayed on Saturday. It was also special as we were performing our drama schools project World to Rights as part of the festival programme and in the Big Top venue. We worked with around 70 children and I believe we got an audience of around the 400 mark. Finally it was special as at this Greenbelt we recorded our last trax16. Thanks to Phil Simpson for writing a short article about it on his blog which can fill you in on the details (no pun intended!) and well done to Mike North for all his hard work putting this pod cast together over the last 3 and a half years. He got some good interviews with Gene Robinson, Rob Bell and I believe Athlete. Check out this months trax16 by clicking on the link. It is a strange feeling to think I may not be back at Greenbelt next year and in some ways my time at CMS has been defined by being at Greenbelt each year. If it was my last it has been a good fairwell Check out more pics on flicker too.