London Fiesta

06 March 2010

Huge congratulations to the organiser of today's Messy Fiesta, the London Dioceses Children's Adviser Sam Donoghue and his wife: he wasn't actually there, as he'd got slightly muddled as to his priorities and had chosen to spend the day with his wife who had gone into labour, rather than coming to the Fiesta. Sam's wife gave birth to a son halfway through the day: all very exciting, and, let's hope, not too messy. Oh dear, so tempting to start thinking of how messy birth is, and how many churches find bringing a Messy Church to birth is not a cut-and-dried process... Towels! Hot water! Pain! Joy! A rapid reshuffle of priorities! No, let's fight the urge to push the comparison further and simply wish the Donoghue family every blessing.

We had a great day even without Sam, and enjoyed hearing the stories from all corners, including Didcot who have been running a Messy Church for three or four years now and are asking 'What next?' Plus of course all the churches there who were at the 'family planning' stage...