GREATHAM NEWSLETTER, June 2005
As I write we are enjoying the last few days of summer at the Manor but the signs of change in the seasons are all around us.
The hot summer allowed us to make full use of our beautiful surroundings. We had some wonderful events, including an impromptu jazz concert in the Stables’ orchard, with James Falzone, a professional jazz musician, on clarinet, and our own Stefan Lindholm and Ken Cope on guitar and Andrew Fellows on piano! We also had a dramatisation of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ with parts for adults and children, and Gordon Tett, a long-term friend of L’Abri and professional actor gave a dramatic reading of CS Lewis’ ‘The Great Divorce’. What richness and creativity there is in God’s world
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GREATHAM NEWSLETTER, June 2005
Some weeks ago, I was sitting in the manor dining room eating lunch with nine of our students, when someone asked, “Is it acceptable for us just to interact with those people who we consider to be “cool”, or are we called to interact with those we find annoying as well?” The question was really: “What does it mean to be sincere in our love for each other?” Many of us had moments pop up in our minds when we had wished we had been part of the “cool” group. As such discussions go, we continued by sharing our experiences and longings for approval, and whether we had managed to achieve them.
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GREATHAM NEWSLETTER, Janurary 2005
Our last newsletter saw you through the end of the Summer Term 2004, the L’Abri community lounging on the grass watching a final film together. Far away and a long time ago seem those warmer, longer evenings of summer as I sit down to write five months later, rain and darkness drawing in at 4pm. Our Autumn Term has come and gone and we are in the first few heady days and weeks of a new term, the Spring Term of 2005. Yet, as we workers began praying for those whom God has brought into our homes and lives this term, we could not help but continue to pray for those who became a rich and integral part of our autumn. Many who called the Manor House home during the Autumn Term 2004 said they knew not the Lord Jesus and with them brought rawness, honesty, and intensity as their gift.
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GREATHAM NEWSLETTER, FEBRUARY 2004
Dear Friends
I have just
returned from my nightly trip to the Manor House to write up the
meal list for tomorrow. It seems such a small and insignificant
task. It can take a long time as I try to spread the students
around the tables evenly so they get to eat with all the workers
regularly. A practical task which, like so many routine jobs at
L’Abri, is weaving together a tapestry of moments. I wonder
what they will discuss at Wade’s table tomorrow? I wonder
how the Holy Spirit will work during the conversation? It is exciting
to see the Lord bring together yet another group of people and
to witness His working in their lives. I always find it interesting
as I greet people for the first time and realise that their faces
will mean and reveal so much more at the end of three months
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