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Hello blogworld!
Just thought you might like to see the Makower headlines (as told from the Will perspective, by no means comprehensive) to fill in some blanks where applicable:
August 1999: Will & Ema tie the knot
September 1999: Ema starts her first teaching job at Barnabas Oley Primary School (http://www.barnabasoley.cambs.sch.uk/)
August 2001: Our first New Wine a crucial one as Will goes to seminar by Mal Calladine doing a case study of St Tom's, which plants a seed...Mission trip to Ecuador ends up with Ema wanting to move to South America!...Will's band 'Makower' call it a day after 3 years of nearly but not quites and much soul searching
December 2001: Will's worship CD 'Spirit Flow' produced in association with Listen-in Ltd (http://www.listen-in.com) gets finished
August 2002: Ema's mad emigration plans kept in check by her Phillipines mission trip...God's 'compromise deal' on mission involves moving to Sheffield to do the course formerly known as 'Tribal Training' at St Tom's (now known as 'Form')...a rare moment of Will and Ema hearts and minds in total unison!
August 2003: Next big leap into the great unknown involves rooting ourselves into Potton Vineyard Church in Bedfordshire, and, after some tricky transition time, actually moving to Potton itself in December of the same year!
January 2004: Will starts to get involved in the music worship team at PVC
March 2004: Will starts at Derek Prince Ministries (http://www.dpmuk.org) in what would turn out to be his longest stint to date in a 'proper' job!
April 2004: Ema goes on maternity leave
May 2004: Bethan Abbie Makower bursts into the world, and the world's still recovering!
July 2004: Jim & LIz Burke come full circle - Having become christians through the work of the church, they now take up the challenge of pastoring it...Pete and Carol Crouch (the founders of PVC) move on to plant another church in Ipswich
October 2004: Ema returns to work and Beth starts at nursery 3 days a week
November 2004: Beth gets dedicated
July 2005: Will & Ema get asked to join 'GNR8', the pastors' steering group
September 2005: Will & Ema start a house group called 'Acts 2' along with another couple at PVC, with the vision to aim for shared lives a la Acts 2!
January 2006: The Makowers discover there's another family addition the way, due 21st October!
And that's the edited highlights so far...as for the future watch this space!
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