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Hi guys,
Not much to tell.
I'm still loving work at the RSPCA...great staff, busy busy and loads of animals!
I sorted out the locum house which I'm currently staying in...it's all tidy now and I'm enjoying the space.
Unfortunately, due to hiccups in transfers of New Zealand money and delay in bank account set up, I have been unable to do a lot, so my first weekend in Birmingham was fairly uneventful. I didn't even have enough money to catch the bus into the city center! Today is the day for exploring! Hopefully I'll get some good pictures, so I don't have to use the same one on here! Haha.
There's a night out with some of the RSPCA staff next weekend, so that should be good...I'm really looking forward to getting out and socialising outside of work. I've heard they can be a bit of a crazy lot, so, it should be interesting :) Good times.
I've started going to a very cool church here! I love it. It's a small Pentecostal church in the midst of the township of Weoley Castle (where I'm currently situated)...unfortunately they have to have gates etc, due to the amount of vandalism and trouble they've had. There are but twenty in the congregation, if that. It mainly consists of people 50+ but I love it. The pastor is a cherry man with a classic white beard and plays a strange old intrument with strings and slidey things (I later discovered this is an 'auto harp') and his wife is a jolly woman who speaks the majority of the time with her eyes closed in contemplation, and waiting on Gods word...she also often has a smile playing at her lips. I love it! I also love the spirit in that place...in particular a little old lady who throws her hands up and is so full of the Spirit. God's presence is incredibly evident. The church holds coffee/tea and food mornings once a week, for the towns people and are hugely involved in sending parcels to the poor in Hondura. They are a simple but very on fire and very unique church. Hugely welcoming and so infectious. It makes me chuckle how 'hick' it is. They even have a tambourine in the midst of it all. Bible study is on wednesday nights and the people almost spill out into the hallway. There are more that come to that than the church itself. I think they are members of other churches in the area. We sing (with the auto harp playing along), pray and read the bible(we havestarted on Colossians). Time flys and people feed off Gods presence. Words and similar visions were being shared, etc. I couldn't stop smiling. Tehe.
That's about it from me...for now anyway!
Miss you all
xoxo
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