Hi everyone, I apologise that it has been well over a month since i was suppose to blog again, but there has been so much going on the past month, i felt i should save it for when i have many stories to tell. So here we are embarking on another whirlwind adventure, i have started a new job having successfully managed to navigate my way through one of the interviews i spoke about in my last post. I have become more confident with my leadership ability with lifegroup leading, i am building yet another website (however i am being paid for this one 
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I guess first things first, I have a new job YAY! it really exciting, i am an ICT Technician for a reputable private school in newcastle, unfortunatly due to school policy i cannot divulge on here where i work, but the past month has been awesome, i am working with an awesome team, there is only 3 of us, but the other guys are brilliant, really relaxed and layed back, and i am assisting in supporting well over 500 users which i think is quite a feet or any IT office. I am absolutly loving it here, both the staff and students are great to work for, and they have all been really positive about the work we have done, which is always a bonus . I really feel i am fitting in nicely and learning a lot, particularly about profesisonal customer support and managing my time efficiantly here. My manager is great, a really nice guy, he is good at getting the job done without adding any pressure to the job which suits me fine so i am happy, i reckon i am gonna be here for quite some time. Although there is the downside that because my former employer botched up my p45 i am now paying base rate tax on my wages untill my p46 goes through, but hey can’t complain the pay is still better than it was before so again i am happy 
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Now onto my student lifegroup work, i found out a couple of weeks ago that i am the only member of this years team that wants to stay on and continue with it next year which is fine, i will be working with some one new and working with a (mostly) completely new bunch of uni students which is always interesting. However over the past year i don’t feel i have played a big roll in leading my lifegroup, i have been kind of shadowing the person i was leading with and only leading 3 or 4 sessions this year, but next year i will be the most senoir lifegroup leader which means more responibiliy with regard to the pastoral care of those students.
This however poses a problem/dilemma because i am currently a part of the congregation at two churches in newcastle, one is my home church and the other i have been going to for 4 years since becoming a christian, and i have responsibilities at both which means i have to be at my home church often because i do PA work there on sundays which means that i am not always at the other church, and unfortunatley i have somewhat of a choice to make, because the church where i do the student work want me to commit more of my time to that church (every sunday morning at least) which means i would have to stop going to my home church in the mornings and would also mean that i could no longer to PA there, they are not stopping me from being part of my home church, but i would be spending considerably less time there than i have been this year, though i feel i have commited a lot of time to the student work, but my current situation is, according the the elders of the church, inappropriate for this ministry.
Sorry i know this must be a little long winded and i have probably confused you more than anything, but basically i need to choose whether to commit myself more to the student work and be an almost full time lifgroup leader, or to my home church and give up student leadership. It is going to take a lot of thinking, and a lot prayer, but i feel confident that God has a way forward for me in this situation, because ultimately i feel that if i am walking the path God has set for me then i am walking the right path for me and the end result will be the right one. so please pray for me that all this is worked out, because it is a little stressfull at times and there is some stuff that still needs clearing up on both sides.
Update 03/07/10
With my leadership decision, i feel like i have finally come to a decision about what i should do with regard to commiting my time to one place, and i have come to the conclusion that often God leads us down roads that we may not necessarily fully agree with, he always has a plan to prosper us and to bring us closer to him, and i believe continuing with the student ministry is where i am being called to go, and have therefore decided to commit the majority of my time to performing my pastoral duties as a student leader, however there are still some things to be sorted, which will hopfully be soon. so again your prayers are greatly recieved.
Fianlly i have taken on another website project for a charity organisation called the Tyneside Decorative and Fine Arts Society, this is relatively similar to my last web project for my church, however this is the next step up in that i am attempting to encorporate it into a content management system called wordpress, which is a new concept for me, somthing i have not done this before, sure i use wordpress for this blog, but i have never incorporated my own theme before so it has been exciting but challenging because it has come with a whole new set of issues that i have to take my time over and work through, however there is not much time left because i need to have it finished by the end of the month. It is nearly there, but there is one small problem with the posting system for the news, but between my self and my web guru Sean O’sullivan i reckon we can figure it out . Well i live in hope .
In the end though it will all be worth it because i am getting paid at the end of it, hopefully that is .
Anyway thats it for this post, hope it was not too hard to read, till next time. Bye .