An
Open Invitation – Come and Join Us!!
Some 15 months ago a new
house-group formed at the suggestion of certain members
of All Saints’ and St Philips’ congregations.
After a while we began to call ourselves the Work and
Life Group. The members of this group
support one another in the spirit of Christian fellowship
to try to help each other balance the demands of work and
personal life. We meet in a different group member’s
home on the first Thursday of each month between To date there has been a core
membership of five with some other members from each
congregation joining us occasionally. All of the
core group is agreed that our sessions have been very
helpful (occasionally even cathartic!). To date the format has remained
unchanged, but we feel it will be important to move on
and develop, to ensure the group maintains its vitality
and value. To this end we are looking at a slight
change to the format of our monthly sessions which is
likely to see us looking a little more to spiritual
guidance without jettisoning the benefits of our
otherwise largely secular discussions! We also wish
to reach out to others and through this note extend an
invitation to anyone interested to join us and share in
our future meetings. Don’t be put off by the name
of the group. If like me you have retired; or
perhaps you are at home much or all of your time looking
after family members, whatever their ages and whatever
yours, then you too will have a need to try to balance
the competing demands of your responsibilities and
commitments with a need to set aside time and space for
yourself (quality time). In fact you’d be
doing the group a favour by bringing fresh perspectives
to the subject of balancing work and life, whatever form
that work takes! Our next meeting will be held at
Paul and Diane Fletcher’s home (Cherry House, Keith
Ashford
|