Up to Peterborough for 9:30 again this morning. Ian was back in the local school to take his weekly assembly, delayed from yesterday as we were at the New Wine leaders event. He was telling the last of the stories from the Old Testament, which turned out to be the return of Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem.

Uniform is not worn by everyone here, not because they don't have to, but because parents either can't afford to provide it, or they can't be bothered. For some of those who were wearing it, they had on new sweatshirts with the new school logo on. Which looked fantastic.

We spent a little time afterwards going over Sunday's sermon. I think I was more acutely aware of some of the shortcomings than Ian was. Ian is an auditory learner, and preaches in the same way, so he didn’t really miss my lack of visual material. He was generally very positive, which was greatly affirming.

Second time up today to attend the Church Council. Age range of the members was slightly wider than other PCC's I've attended. The youngest member is only 16, and the oldest in their 60's. Ian had wanted to get through the meeting as quickly as possible, but as is always the case on these occasions, it turned out to go on longer than I imagine he intended.

Most of the evening was taken up in discussion of the redrawing of Parish boundaries, which as Christ Church is not a parish church, was an odd situation for the Church Council to find themselves in. Typically for the CofE, it's been given a specifically bizarre name, and Ian will be known as a Missioner Priest rather than a Parish Priest.

Today's Mileage: 126 miles