So we are now in Aber for the conference. We arrived ahead of most conferees on Thursday night and then had Friday to settle in. We stay with my in-laws along with Eleri's two sisters and their families. We're quite a large crowd by now but two of my sons are able to stay with my eldest and his wife in their flat round the corner.
I was a last minute replacement at the welcome meeting for Extra-time, the programme of fringe meetings organised for under 25s. I spoke on making the most of it. See the sermon here. About 40 were present and it was a nice start.
One of the traditions pre-conference is that besides the official conference Sunday services (this year Andrew Norbury and James Sercombe at Capel y morfa) my father-in-law puts on a mini conference, usually preaching himself. It is normally in Bethel, the church building diagonally opposite (the smaller) Alfred Place but that was due to have roof work so it was in Seion, Baker Street just down the street.
Geoff did three messages on Adoption, looking at the doctrine itself, the implications and then some application. The first two were given on Sunday morning and evening just later than the usual times. Then on Monday morning we have a stripped down session where I open with prayer and the Word. Well over a hundred were present.
So as usual even before the conference had really started we had had a good time. Sunday afternoon Eleri and I went over to the house of one of the AP elders and had a lovely time with him, his wife, and their Yorkshire based son and his wife and daughter.
It's lovely to see lots of old friends, of course, from LTS and student days and so on, as well as family.
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