Travels to Belfast & Burgess Hill
The last week has definitely involved some travelling. It was great to be back in Belfast last Thursday to speak at the Church Resources conference which was attended by over 1500 people. We also had our ROC launch planning meeting and, with only 12 weeks to go, it was good to see things coming together. I met some good people like Paul and Lesley Scott who organised the conference and George Hamilton from PSNI, recently moved from Strathclyde Police.
I also met with an old friend, Owen Crane who now leads Abundant Life church in Belfast. It was fab to see Chloe again from Girls Brigade, and dream some dreams together re our partnership. Hopefully a new ROC Café will start up in her hometown.
From Belfast to Sussex on Friday for the launch of ROC in Burgess Hill. Around 600 people came to the launch with 50 VIPs including Deputy Chief Constable Giles York, the Divisional Commander of West Sussex Martin Walker, Rt Hon Nicholas Soames MP, Mayor of Burgess Hill, Councillor Chris Thomas-Atkin, Mandy Thomas-Atkin, who is currently the Chairman of Mid Sussex District Council and Deputy Mayor of Burgess Hill, Councillor Anne Jones MBE. The local organising team did a great job and plans are now underway for two ROC Conversations in March. Hopefully these will result in new projects. We will host a ROC projects training day in Sussex on June 21st.
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