Once a year the CU goes away together for a weekend and that my friends is where I have been this weekend. We all met outside the union at 4:45 and at 6:00 we left — traffic was to blame but we all knew we wouldn’t be leaving on time and anyway we got to spend an hour in the bar instead. The next 3 hours were spent in one of the 3 mini-buses that took us — it would have been a great journey except Westwood was on the radio for the last half an hour or so… If you don’t know who Tim Westwood is, count yourself lucky.

For the next 2 days we were in Newcastleton, just the other side of the Scottish borders, in a little place called Whithaugh Park. I love the countryside and this place was awesome — miles from nowhere, no TV or internet, just 2 days full of Teaching, Worship and a game or two of Risk.

The speaker we had with us was amazing. His name is Steve Braye and he had his son with him too. He’s an ex-military guy who used to be in the SAS which would have been enough to keep me interested for a weekend but he has the most amazing testimony and his relationship with God really just shines out of him. The teaching was a mix of a lot of things which was actually really good because it just gave God a chance to do more in me. If only the weekend was longer! Now I have to process what went on there and it was a lot — choices, The way of the cross, sexuality, freedom in Christ and a whole bunch of other things. Let’s just say God’s doing a lot — way too much to talk about here — but I’m sure this isn’t the last you’ll hear of it.

Newcastleton

This is Newcastleton the somewhere in the background is the place we were staying at, Saturday afternoon a bunch of us walked into town though. I’ll post some more pictures when I get them.