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Thoughts and experiences from Lee Abbey
7-9 May 2004

This page is a place for people who went to Lee Abbey to share their thoughts, experiences and impressions of the weekend. If you were part of the Parish weekend, we'd love to have your contribution for this page. Simply email leeabbeybedminsterchurches.net or jot them down and pop them into the Parish Office.

If you didn't go this year, read on and you'll know what to expect next time!

Gallery

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Thanks to Melody Carter for the photographs.

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Thanks to Chris Allen for these new photographs to bring back the memories!

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The sky the waves the moor and Lee Abbey
To soar on the wing with the buzzard, to roll like thunder on the waves, to experience God's love with the Lee Abbey community, MEGA.
The ride home across the moor - Fantastic.

Chris Allen, St Francis

If you didn't come - you missed yourself.
The Parish were treated to lovely talks, kids clubs, drama, praise sessions, food, and endless streams of tea and coffee from the nurturing Lee Abbey team. And all this in the most idyllic surroundings. The kids ran free in the grounds and the adults of all ages and stages got to spend some quality time together (i.e. sit in the conservatory with our tea surveying it all!).

Thanks from me to all who came along and made it so worthwhile as well as to those there- and on the subject of the Team: the messages I took away and would like to try to sustain back here are twofold
  1. The more whole we let God make us the more He can bless us and
  2. therefore we can reach out in love to those around us.

As Michael said when they offered us to carry 'someone' (in the form of a small silhouette representing them!) up and lay them on the Cross, how great it was to see so many people queueing up to pray for one another. . .

So for those of you who never made it this year - come next year?

Karen Losey, St Francis

About Lee Abbey
Lee Abbey is.... ‘an oasis in the desert’. a place where you can escape from the pressures of everyday life and take some unhurried time to be renewed by God, in mind, body and spirit. You will be warmly welcomed by an international community of Christians. Click here to visit the Lee Abbey website.

Lee Abbey Day Conference
7th Feb 2004

A team of five, led by Matt visited St Aldhelm's from Lee Abbey to lead a day of teaching, workshops and fun. Helping us build a vision for the future of the parish, and gave an idea of what might be expected on the parish weekend away in May.

The day was well supported and people from St Aldhelm's, St Francis' and St Paul's joined in worship, prayer and sharing.

The theme of the day was introduced with this inspiring quote, based on Acts 2:42-47.

Once there was a community of believers who were so totally devoted to God that their life together was charged with the Spirit's power. In that band of Christ followers, believers loved each other with a radical kind of love. They took off their masks and shared their lives with one another. They laughed, and cried, and prayed, and served together in authentic Christian fellowship. Those who had more shared freely with those who had less until socio-economic barriers melted away. People related together in ways that bridged gender and racial chasms, and celebrated cultural differences. Acts 2 tells us that this community of believers, this church, offered unbelievers a vision of life that was so beautiful it took their breath away. It was so bold, so creative, so dynamic that they could not resist it. Verse 47 says, "...and the Lord added to their number daily".

Taken from 'Courageous Leadership' by Bill Hybels. Published by Zondervan Publishing USA, available from Wesley Owen.

Images of the day conference

Lee Abbey Conference 07-02-2004 timeline lunch
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