Tim Prentice

Amazing

2010-03-22T17:58:00.000Z

Ding Ding! End of Round 1

2009-10-06T19:53:00.002+01:00

So, It all started when I posted a message about my Church, I said we were going to be on BBC1 songs of praise, Said people may want to join in. Little did I realise that it would spark a massive .... Cant think of a massinve so a massive something...

Anyway, an old school friend starts by saying he did not want to watch and had rather stick a needle in his eyes, a bit OTT if you ask me but Songs of praise has not always been very popular with the un-churched youth of today. I would even be with those that say i do think it appeals to me. But I t must appeal to someone as there are an estimated 3million viewers of the program each week.a But I know that this meeting would not be the normal boring style.(it was good - if you missed it you a have until Sunday 11th to watch on BBc i Player (or u tube after that))Then my older sister starts to say she thinks that he is talking silly, and it goes back a forth. each having a little digg, trying to put there point accross to the other.

the topic soon changes from boring songs of praise to does God real, whey does he punish people, why does he not care, why did he send the flood.... and so on......below is a copy of my reply to them both, hoping that maybe we can et somewhere with a resolution befor the is a KO!

Ding Ding! end of round 1..... ok guys. its been interesting reading both your opinions in the feed. I understand how i an appear that God is doing nothing about the starving peope in the 3rd world, and when some christians can thin that evolution is not true and just some ballone made up by scientist. I understand why some non christians may want to fight a corner for the evolution 'facts'. what I cant understand is wh we cant all get along, why there is such a devide between science and God, between Faith and Fact. SO if we take it right back to the beginning - lets assume that the christians bible is correct, stuff was not here, then god spoke. when god spoke things appeared, the whole worls and universe..... and so on. I kinda thinks that God created sound too, so if God created sound then is it like that when he created this masive earth that there was a bit of a BANG - there the big bang. SO the evolution thing. if we do not believe in evoultion ten how can we explain some of the every day mirricials that happen all over the world, Babies. uman and animals, Plants and all other things. Basic biology. 2 poeple man and oman have sex (or a scientist does it in a test tube!) the womans egg goes on a date with the mans sperm, they hit it off, fall in love..... he fertilizes her, 2different things come together. then 'evolve' into soe little blob, embrio, fetus, baby, toddler and so on. before the baby is born it is not breathing, its living in a sack of fluid, then he it pops out it has to take its first breath it has then evolved. so I a christian can believe in God the Creator o all things who has made all things evolve..... let us live more in harmony with each other. and to clarify some bits - the Apple may not have been an apple - it is said to be a fruit, both the flood and the arden of eden are based in the old testiment - before Jesus comes to walk on the earth, the law is changed, a new law is given. God says after the flood, never again will I flood the whole earth..... Christians believe that God gave us all a choie of free will. this means that we choose to do things, good or bad, right or rong. help others or look out for ourselves. believe in him or not. If we do not do the things of God will then there wil be consequence's.God has answered the prayers of the starving poepl ein the 3rd wold, he has given them the rich, educated 1st world poeple. we have been given all that we need to help theose need, we have just failed to see what we are to do, we think God is going to pop down from heaven and give a big plate of chips and beans to the little children. No we are the answer to their prayers. We are to give of out time, talents and treasure to help others. we are to think of our selves less, and thinks more about others. care for thoses around us, if we were all to open our etes and see the need of our neigoubers and help them we would find that larger issues would becvome lees intimerdating..... I realise I have gone on a bit here. I am gunna keep ritiing but over on my blog. if you wanna read on tune in at tim.redteeps.co.uk Thanks

.....so, do I have anything else to say, Yes I suppose I do.

If you ar enot surre about anything relating to God get your self along to an Alpha course, we have just kicked of the course this week, but its not too late to come along, for details call 01733 311156, or visit our website . if however you dont want a formal cours like the alpha course then you could come along to one of our sunday meetings where we will be learning about God, covering things like dpes god have a plan for Me, will he roved for Me and will he take care of Me... other titles in the series too.

if you want any more on the series please let me know.

night guys.

Some plans

2009-09-03T19:15:00.001+01:00

ok, so its been a while… all my posts seem to start this way! Ill have to aim to change this.

Soooo, first off, not much has changed, but I hope to make some significant changes over the next few years. one of the first things will be to get fitter, yes, I need to do more exercise. currently I bike to work, Jackie says its about 8 miles, each way…. ok, let me get my breath back… it takes about 30min, but that all good. The next things to better my fitness is to start running, not just for fun, but for a BIG run, a mammoth run, a marathon. the London marathon. I have asked water aid if I can run for them, waiting to hear back. If I can run this April, then 2011.

The other things I will be doing is putting together some plans for Africa, well for Jackie and I to get back out there. here we should go, who we should go with….. and the rest of the stuff involved.

I live at the end of the Street with the Big green bush outside

2009-05-17T19:31:00.002+01:00

Hi, well, what a jam packed few weeks I have had, and I think its going to get more mad! So what have I been upto?

Well A few months ago I started a new Job, I am now working as a IT Tech at Hampton College, I also do a bit of Media witht he students, cool. job is going well, I am really excited about what God is going to do through me, how I can impact the Students and staff. I am learning new things about myself and its great.

I am ful on with PA for Church still and am getting ready for the BBC live event. oh you may not realise we are hosting a Live BBC 1 broadcast. Sunday 31 May at 10am our church will be live on BBC1, how cule. we are also recording other shows for later airing. this I thnk will be an amazing opportunity for loads of folk in there homes to experience Church. The BBC tell us there are likly to be 1million viewers, I think it will be great if we could ll tune in to watch making it at least 2 million. Wouldent it be great if this could be the start of a changing nation. come on!

So what is this title about, well, Jackie and I love hosting friends and family, we really like to have guys over for dinna and to hag out. so to give directions we tell our friends that we live at the end of the street with the Big green bush out side. a few weeks ago I got rid of the bush, why? well it was planted over the main drains, I didnt really want them to damage the drains and have loads of waste spilling out!!! so how do we now give directions? I dont know. Will have to see when we invite you over.

well, You may now notice a new addition to my page, its a twitter update, umm I have finally cracked and joined up to twitter, how nice. loads of guys I know are on there.

so addictive!

well thats it for now, But i hope to be back soon.,

see ya.

oh, do let me know what you thinkn of the Live TV in 2 weeks.

Guess whos back!

2008-10-18T10:50:00.002+01:00

Hi, I cant believe how the time has passed since my last post. Well Lots has happened since then and I suppose part of these things have been reason or part for my not posting.

I did say in one of my first posts that this is here as a way for you to keep up to date with all that is happening in the lives of my family and I. I think some of you have some catching up to do.

I think one of the biggest of things which has happened early on in the Summer is my promotion to Engineering Manager, Quite nice, comes with a few extra perks, and of course more responsibility. This however is not and should not be the biggest, its just up there with the big bits!

The biggest and most challenging has to be Jackie health. We have had a number scares if you like. Jackie has had a number of moments in Hospital, some short visits and other a bit longer, I thought I was going to start paying rent and choosing the next colour to paint the room she had on the ward it was that long! I say these yhings in jest to hlp me get by.

So what was wrong? Jackie has had abdominal pains and issues for a few years now, and about 2 months ago spent 4 weeks in and out of hospital with ovarian Cysts. This of course can by teamed with some fears over fertility and reduced chance of conceiving.

well, after some emergency surgery Jackie had the cysts removed. Jackie has just had her report back form the hospital saying she has another cyst, but we are believing that God will intervene and give Jackie a full bill of health.

So how have I coped? I thinks it has been hard but I have a number of close friends who have supported us both at all times. Friends form the Church and family too, they have all played there parts and we are truly thankful for there support, without them I'm not sure how I would have managed.

Anyway, Life has to move on, and I have been reminded more and more lately (with Jackie's health) and Friends and Family moving away, or planning to that some times we can lose sight of the things in life that matter. we never know when some one may be taken from us or us from them.

we have a friend who has gone back home to South Africa recently to see family. On my birthday she facbooked me a message, and she was a Little emotional in her text saying that she misses us and wished she had spent more time with us when she was here. this is what got me thinking more. we need to spend time with friends and Family. I need to spend more time with friend and family.

I am not a big football fan, to be honest I am not a football fan at all! a=however I am now a fan of spending time with Friends and family more than before. My Brother a big fan or Arsenal invited me to one of there home games later in the ear, I jumped at the chance, I rally get to spend time with my brother, yes I see him and the family but not just him. I instantly thought of one of my closest friends Mark, a good guy! he too is an arsenal fan, I invited him along to the game. so the 3 of us are going out for the game, it will be great. one of the first steps to spending time with the ones I love.

I thinks we are all always busy, with Work, General stuff to do ( shopping for food, Cleaning the house, Sleeping and all that jazz!) ohhh eating... that we sometimes fail to spend time with our loved ones. Some of us who also volunteer for certain charities over our paid jobs find less time for fun! I, without burning my self out want to give as much time to friends and family, This morning the TV would normally be on, why? I don't know, just to be on! a wast of time. (well Saturday Kitchen is not a wast as its teaches me some great new stuff to cook for you when you come over for dinner!) But you get what I am saying.

so after my rambling on, some I hope makes sense and other bits I'm sure will not, whats next?

No not Christmas, its a shower, I need to have a Nice long shower, ohhh that will be nice.

OK I'm am off for now but I hope to be back soon. and I will really try to get another one in sooner than the last!

take care all.

see you some time

Tim

Well, I have thought about it... now I am really doing it...!

2008-03-30T22:25:00.001+01:00

So I am just taking a little break... umm I suppose I am not taking a break but am, in a strange kinda way.

I have decided to start writing my book, I say mine but it will be yours if you buy it!!!please do.

oh I realise that I would have to get it published too, oh dear loads of new things I will experience.

SO what have you all been up to? I have been doing loads at work and just at much at with Church for Easter, it is great, I would not want it a different way.

how many of you were at the meeting this morning with Rachel Hickson? I know there were hundreds of us... wasn't it fantastic, she always is. I love her, she is great, brings us such a great word at the time we need it. for me personally I thought that the word was aim at me, Brill. Rachel was talking about open and closed doors and how we are effected by these.

I felt the Lord really working in the meeting today and that many people will be looking at doors in the next few days and knowing how to deal with them. do we push them, or turn to another door?

Well I know that I may be looking at a closed door at the moment and am just waiting for the other door to open. Will tell more when God does open it.

well, it is late and I do need to go to bed soon so will leave this hear for now and hope to be back in the next few days.

nite.

I feel like a Man!

2008-02-05T19:04:00.001Z

So what is it that makes a man a man? is it a hairy Chest, A sporty Car, a six pack (of anything,beer or muscle)? Well I think I have just found out! keep reading it is clean I promise, well...

Jackie and I decided that we should come out of renting, why rent when we could pay about the same but to have our own house! well we managed to get our feet on the big old ladder ( this is not part of the Manly thing just its building up to it!, however you will see a ladder involved later). WE were blessed with a real nice house in a not so nice area, the house needed no work, it was a case of move in and then move out again...

...so let me explain, we loved the house, but it was not totally rite, however we were there for 18 months. some of you may have read some of the post about the pains of getting our new house, well the pains have continued, but in a good way, a way that make me a man!

so when we moved in - um October 26 2007, got the keys about 11 AM, how nice.

The house is so different, it a semi, 3 bed at the end of a street, nice neighbours and massive garden (this is what I like, and it looks good already, even better). it even has a drive, wow, never had one of them b4, and our own garage, how cule. The house was built in the 60's, so older than my biggest tree fern, that old! But with an old house comes old thing, old walls, floors, ceilings and Roofs and fences! - this is what brings me to start getting to talking about feeling like a man!

so the last few months we have had loads of rain, this has decided to make a more personal visit to us by way of breaking into our downstairs bathroom, we had a ...leak, oh no. ok, so I think I can do this, I can fix it. not a problem, well it is a problem as I have never done it b4.

ok, so here goes, I decide to take down the ceiling, oh what a mess! next I have to climb the ladder ( not the same as I put my foot on b4 but a real metal one that reaches to the roof!)Gulp. its too high, even though its only a flat roof on the ground floor! so I get up on the roof and start to clear off the muck that was on it. yuck. so then head off to the DIY store and get some roof sealer, agghhh, what is that I hear you say, well I heard myself saying that loads as I paced up and down the isles looking for that stuff for the roof. well I found the roof department, found some stuff in a Massive tin, it was heavy, cost loads but looked good! I got a few other bits and bobs, went home and ... back track a min.. I paid for all the stuff!.. let now carry on... Went home, took all the gear inside where I then sat down and had a cup of tea after my ordeal!

This was the end of the day, it got dark, I went to bed, I was tired!

Next day was a big one ( you may remember me saying at the beginning that I promise that this is not dirty, well this is a little!)SO I go out and up on the roof again, now the roof is clear of all its dirt, I open this tin and try and brush on the stuff to the roof, its sooooo thick, I struggle, but persevere, it gets dark, I carry on. Finally I get all the roof covered, yes, and I managed in the process to get all of me covered too! oh well, I managed to do what I set out to do.

Next morning I gaze out the window to see my handy work - the work that is dirty and makes me feel like a man! and see that the rain from last nigh was sat on top and not coming in... yeahhh great, so pleased.

So I now have fixed my roof, great, All that is left for me to do is put up a new ceiling! ummm, I will get that done, umm well some time!

speak again soon.

Take care

ok, here goes

2008-01-07T19:43:00.001Z

ok, so Jackie and I arrived home, we needed some more food. we had run out of milk and bread, what are we going to to or lunch 2moro!!!!1 never fear, because on Saturday afternoon we went online and did our shopping, from Tesco. it is great, we sit there our PJ's in the warm and clicks a few times, then a few days later a nice man comes to the door with loads of food and shampoo. how great is that.

We have bought loads of stuff on line b4 from places like Amazon and Ebay, and loads of other places, so we are not entirely new to this, but this was different. when you buy something from amazon you all excited as its a new DVD or a game you have bought, the waiting is all part of the fun ( well sometimes its not so I pay a little extra for next day!) but with the weekly shop its so boring, its a drive away to get to the shop, its about 300 miles to walk around the massive store, But when you can site at home, with the heating on cause its cold out side, with a cup of tea, in your pj's and do the weekly shop, there has to be something good going on!!!

We have also just tried to order some fresh fruit from River Nene Organic, these will be coming 2moro. I have to say I was really impressed with Tesco and would tell other of it, oh, I am telling others of it. if you do shop at tesco and have access to the inte.... oh of course you have access tot he Internet or you would not be reading this!!!...oh, I suppose a friend could have printed this of and given it to you on paper.... well if that is the case and you do not have the Internet then you will not be able to order you food on line, sorry, but that's not my rules its just the way it is. anyway if you do have the inter net then feel free to order some stuff on line, Im sure the shops will love you for it!!!

before you say anything I am not getting any commision from this, I am just a happy customer.

Well in other news Jackie and I went to London on Sunday, we had a great time, met up with some friends and had a great meal at the steak house, ummm, steak.

part of the trip was to visit a church in London, the Church is called Hillsong London, I can say I was WOWd by it, the sound, Lights and visually aspects were all fantastic, one of the opening projected images said welcome home' however, one thing which both Jackie and I felt was that we were not at home, so for all you guys at KingsGate, we really missed you and will be back with you on Sunday, hope to see you there.

Do say Hi if you read this.

Well by for now.

and keep reading Ralph's Blogs.

WOW - how cool is this!

2008-01-07T12:52:00.001Z

I have just downloaded this new ( well new to me) bit of software which comes as part of the Microsoft Live package, also part of this is Messenger, live mail and some other cool stuff.

This program is Live writer, this allows you to enter you blogging details, user name password etc and just blog from there. you ask to start a new blog, it open live writer and you start writing, great. now I don't need to go to my blog site to start a blog. its incredible. I love it.

It even looks like your real blog site so you know what you blog ill look like when it is published.

well I think I will do a real post later. I will be talking about Internet shopping, why I hear you ask. ( well I don't really hear you asking but some of you might be thinks it!!!)

its beaus Jackie and I have started to buy our food from a well know shop on line, it even gets sent to your door. great - well I don't want to take away from the blog later so you shall have to tune in then to see what I have to say.

Well see you all later.

Oh, it's been 2 long

2007-10-21T19:19:00.000+01:00

Well, Like my father-in-Law said in his speech at our wedding reception 'Tim is a man of his word', Well, If he said this I can't let him down! I said this afternoon to a good friend that I would write again. so here we go!!!
Well I think the day is finally just around the corner. We have all agreed a date for our move. yeeeaahhh.
It has been a long time coming however this is great timing, I think! just b4 Christmas, so that will be nice. As I am typing this I am reminded that it will mean we (Jackie and I) have not spent more than 1 Christmas in each of our houses! anyway I think we shall be in this new house for much longer.

we have been packed for ages, well half packed. but are now getting all the stuff packed, its one of those really frustrating things, what do yo need to leave out for the last morning, what can you do without, how much of this do you need, how many of them????

Jackie will soon have her own blog, we shall have to see who is better at keeping their's updated!! Click here to be taken to her page, then maybe bookmark it!

We are also trying to keep a couple of pages about us both, some details of what were are upto, this can be found at www.redteeps.co.uk. Click on the link and you will be taken there.
Please let us know what you think.

Good night!

...later....

2007-09-16T15:19:00.001+01:00

When I said later i didn't think it would be this much later. anyway here is the rest of the lodown on our stay up north.

you may remember in the previous post that I mentioned the Zebras! well they are reall quite significant - each mornign during breakfast we had one of the team share a thought for the day. on this day it was Dave's thought. Dave suggested that we all try and think of a Christian song that each begin with a different letter of the alpherbet, we took on the challange.
as you can emagin some letters have loads of songs and others don't seem to have any - like the letter Z - what songs begin with the letter Z let alone Christians songs!! so there were 6 of us sat with nothing to do for the morning but think of 26 songs! agghhh. well we got all the way to y but were stuped on Z - oh no, we can't stop there. so we wrote a new song!
Zebra song
this is a great song which can be used to teach a little of the storie of Noah to young children (and their parents)
it goes something like this....
...Zebras went into the ark, along with the other animals
Zebras went into the ark, along with the other animals
it rained for 40 daya and nights, Noah couldn't see any land in sight...

There is more but I dont think its fare to write - if you want any more then please contact me and I will see if the band can reunite and sing this for you.

anyway - that wally chap - we saw him again the next day. we were driving in pickering during the steam show and heh was there - just standing in the road. he was wearing the same clothes.
I think the local paper was running a compertition to see how many time you could find wally. as we only saw him once I dont think we would have won.

well - I think i will leave it at this for now but hope to post again later.
T

Where’s Wally?

2007-08-06T16:58:00.001+01:00

Jackie and I have just spent a week in Yorkshire with some friends form Church. We all had a fantastic time together and alone. We were staying near a place called Pickering.

Jackie and I spent some time walking around the moors, up and down the hills (of which there are none in Peterborough so we are not used to it!). We decided to go you a zoo and theme park one day, details can be found at www.flamingoland.co.uk.The theme park is great as it boasts both fantastic thrill rides and Wild Animals. We started our Day by going on all the massive rides – some made us feel a bit unwell but the others were great fun and I am glad we did not miss them, even with a 40 min queue for one of them. The first ride Jackie and I went on was a the motorbike ride – this looks like a long line of supper bikes, you sit yourself down and brace your self – the bikes zooooom off reaching speeds of 100Kph in under 3 seconds, WOW that's fast real quick. Standing in the Queue behind us was a lone man – I would say that he was in his late 30's to early 40's; he had a bit of a beard, some binoculars, a cap and a funny dress sense! Both Jackie and I were reminded of the guy called Wally in the well know cartoon stuff called where's Wally (if you don't know of Wally do a Google search – the picture is just what we saw!)

Later in the Zoo we took a look at the animals (well what else do you do in a zoo?) we saw some fantastic animals – some giraffes, Hippos, Zebra (more on them later!!!), Flamingo (would you have guessed that flamingo land had some real flamingo's?), and loads more – It really is great, I would go again!

One of the greatest sights I think wad the Siberian Tiger – It was in a massive cage – we could walk over it but best of all it had a glass wall to one side which meant we could get up close and nearly personal with eh beauty of the Tiger. As we were walking round the glass wall the tiger was there - I think he was trying to stare me out! He was eyeballing me – that is quite an experience.

We also saw the full size our African Spur's will grow to – they are our two new tortoises – BIG.

Well be sure to come back later when there will be some more of our stay up north!

2 in 1 day – how lucky are you!!!

2007-06-25T21:29:00.001+01:00

Jackie was –well is at the time of writing this – watching a programme on TV, 'the man who lost himself', a documentary about a man who was in a car accident and lost his memory. This aside – One of the girls (his daughters) was interviewed and said – 'he was the best dad in the world, he would let us get away with murder' – ok, no it's not ok. I have heard so many young people say things like this, she was great, she never told us off... he was a great instructor, he always let us do what we wanted...

This really frustrates me – on one hand they are saying this person is great yet on the other they are saying that this person did not discipline when maybe they should have, that they did not encourage good but supported bad, or that they didn't stand out from the crowed but were in the middle of the scruffs. Now I understand that there is an amount of letting young people or people under your care, leadership or discipleship learn, however we would never get anywhere in our lives or this world if we were not to learn from other peoples mistakes and make them ourselves. We would simply go round and round in circles.

Well, I am now off to study some more, will let you know when the next exam is.

Cy again soon.

Where have I been?

2007-06-25T14:10:00.001+01:00

It's been too long. Where have I been! To be honest I not been anywhere...well I have been on a boat – that was ages ago but I'll tell you all about it.

Jackie and I hired a narrow boat out for a few days – it was fantastic. With our normally busy life it was a great change in pace, a nice break and time away from the norm.

Well that was ages ago! Like over a month! I have been really slack. Hey I back now though. So what's been happening with you all? I'm sure I will catch up with some of you. Anyway, work is going really well, we have just increased our staff by 1; we 4 boys now have to behave ourselves as we have lady working with us. I can say it has been great since she started –she has really taken the pressure off us and we are able to do so much more. How great.

Well what else is happening!!! Loads – you may remember that we are selling our house –well it is now sold STC BLA Bla Bla....we are doing contracts and stuff. We have also found a house we are buying, it's really nice. Looking forward to some sort of house warming! Will keep you up to date.

(not tortoise but close enough!!)

So has there been anything else happening?? Not really, but I can say that we have new member of the family soon to be with us... before you all start talking it's not of the human kind! We are getting ourselves another pet – or 3!! We currently have a tortoise which has been really nice, so we are now waiting on our new family members – will get some pics as soon as they arrive so you can all go arrrrhhhhh.....

Oh, the names of my 2 are Frankie and Kermit, Jackie's 2 are Herby (this is one we currently have) and Happy.

By for now

After a long wait

2007-05-17T23:22:00.001+01:00

Hiya,

I know for some you regular readers this has been quite a quite time for me, but I am now back. Firstly the reason for my absence is that I have been really busy. I have had my head in the books! Preparing for my exam (more on that later) and Church stuff. It all good. Great fun. I had the pleasure of serving at one of the best courses we host at PCC and as always it was fantastic to see so many lives changed by the power of God.

My Exam, some of you may have ready some time ago that I was to sit an Exam for work, I did the exam but the mark I achieved was too low for a pass. (The exam result is a pass or fail; it is really black and white) I have since taken the exam again, well today in fact, at 13.15 this afternoon I started my exam:

oh how the time seems to drag at the beginning, tick tock..... still 2 hours left – then suddenly wham time coming to an end, 30 minutes, quick go back over the questions not sure of, try to get some extra marks. Ok – eyes going weird after looking at the screen for so long.

I then had the opportunity of giving feedback relating to the exam - no thanks, I just wana get my results and get home...... come on I just want my results....... ok this seems to be dragging... her they come, the screen shows a block of text " thank you for sitting the Micro..... " come on where is the score, I need 700 points – where is it, oh yes, I see...... Yes it's a pass, Fantastic.

I was the only one in the exam room, I was so excited. My hands shot in the air, WOW, I am now an MCP...so what now? It all starts again but with a bigger book and harder questions.

Once again I will keep you all up to speed.

Nite guys.T

If you want our house

2007-04-26T13:42:00.001+01:00

Our house details are now on the web – if you want to view them please Click Here to be redirected tot he page.

Were open for offers!

Moving House

2007-04-25T14:11:00.001+01:00

Well it's been a loge time since I was last blogging!

What has been going down with me? Not much really, well I say not much - LOADS, that's why I have not had the time to Blog.

Jackie, my wife, and I are looking to move. We have been looking at various different houses in different locations in the area but had not be greatly impressed with what was on offer. Then at the end of last week – we saw a really nice house, massive garden (well massive for a house in the city), and 3 beds – what we want. It does have some work to be done, a lick of paint and new carpet but that will be part of making it our house.

As we saw this house we were thinking this is fantastic – just one issue, our house is not on the market – quick! Think! We need to sell our house before we can do anything else – it's not even on the market. Ok so we get the estate agents round to value the house, nice value!!! We get it on the market that afternoon, then just a few hours later – Ring Ring..... Estate agent has a viewing for us – WOW we were blown away, a viewing in less than 2 hours of putting the house on the market.

We have since then had other viewings and some interest.

We decided to take a second viewing of the house we like and after that felt it was right to put in an offer – and it has been accepted. FANTASTIC!!! I could not believe it. The ball seems to be rolling now and this is really exciting time for us.

Well I will keep you all posted with how the house move, hunt, sell, buying and whatever else is involved goes.

I hope to be writing a blog from the new house real soon.

If any of you are interested in Viewing our house or know of anyone then feel free to get in touch and I will provide more details.

Thanks and happy reading

The result!

2007-04-03T20:01:00.001+01:00

Some of you regular readers of my Blog may remember me talking about having to sit an exam – well I took the exam on Friday and not to my pleasure I failed it. I needed a total score of 700 and I got 609, I think for my first that is not bad – at least I tried!! – I will be booking the reset for a few weeks from now, and of course I will post the results here.

I don't really have much else to say at the moment but have a great Easter all and see you soon.

An interesting Read!

2007-03-26T22:21:00.000+01:00

I have just been searching google for some blogs and found a reli interesting one - it was about 'Mega Church'. this was quit strange as I had just come of the phone to my brother who is not yet decided if big Church is for him or if he should stay with the smaller option.
having been a member of a smaller church and now a big Church I can understand where he (and alot of other people are coming from) when they say that big church is just not family like, however I have ot say that I feel more at home and with my family at the big church than at smaller church.
I think the reason for me finding myself at home is that there is such a large group of people of my age, interests and occupation. My experience of small church was as a kid with no one my age - my sister who was 7 years younger (she still is 7 years younger but the gap seems to be less now we are both older) and my older sister who was older - no one in between.
I can shear any of my feelings with a number of my close friends - I could trust them with big things.

well all these personal feelings aside - here is a question for you all... are you ready? its a tough one! for some.

is 'mega church' wrong?... what I mean by this is do we find that mega church loses things that small church has to offer, or do we find that it has so much more to offer.

does big church take away from the intimacy of Christianity or does it deepen the worship level and broaden the move of the spirit.

I don't think that God will look at us when we get to heaven and say 'sorry mate but you were part of a big church some I will give you more (or less) than him, he was only part of a small church with 25 people'
no - it doesn't matter if we are part of the big church or the small church but how we are within our environment.
I think though that God would be happier with 10 or 10,000 in one church than with no church at all and 100,000 believers wondering around without being a part of others lives.

well if all this has inspired you to come along to a big church then you can find some details about PCC by following this link. http://www.pcc-uk.org

First Exam booked

2007-03-24T13:04:00.001Z

Well. I am in the middle of studying for an MCSE. I have just finished reading the Microsoft book on 70-270 (Windows XP desktop). It came to the time when I had to book my exam – I can't believe how sick I felt when booking the exam. As it as the first time I booked an exam I had to register my details, name address and the rest of the normal blarb. When I came to choose the exam I felt physically sick.

Now with less than 1 week to go until my exam I feel quite calm – be sure to come back next week to see how I get on.

Well I don't have much else on at the moment so this is it for now...

See you all soon.

2007-03-18T21:46:00.000Z

I have never really been a great fan of history; the subject always seemed to bore me. I was, and to an extent still am more interested in the future than history. I think this is because History cannot be changed but the future can be planned (almost!!) - ~However I am now beginning to think some how differently, you see if we did not have history to look back on we would not know where we came from, the successes in the lives of the people who trod this earth years before. We also would not be as advanced as we are now and would keep trying to invent the wheel.
We also would not be able to learn from our mistakes let alone the mistakes of the thousands and Thousands and tho.... of men, women and children who have been there and done that (t shirts were not popular then!!) before us.
I know some great people who are passionate about history and could tell you the benefits of it far more than I - Simon is one of these men, he has inspired me and taught me some interesting facts about history.
I was in India with Simon and other friends when I realised how little I know about history - I felt that I was only interested in my life and not in the lives of those who have helped get me to where I am now – Thank you Simon and all those who have directly and indirectly helped the world and i get to where we are.

This subject of history has really hit me this week when I was invited to join a team of guys at a game of paintball – I have played once before and was un harmed – however this experience was quit the opposite.
When we all had our camo gear on and pant ball guns in hand marching from one game to the next I began to think about all the people who have gone to war for their country... for us... for me. I began to get just a slight glimpse of what they experienced.
Now paint ball is quite harmless (if you don’t get hit!!). I got hit – My wife counted 27 on my bum alone – I must have around 100 bruises all over my body – that is from a small ball of paint.
Some of the games we played involved sitting in trenches attacking others, this was not a nice experience, the sound of the balls firing towards you, hitting the shields of the barricades around you, the cries of your team mates going down one by one, Then popping your head out from cover to see a mass of charging men all shooting at you – balls hitting you and you being out for the rest of the game. I was scared, the adrenalin was pumping and my heart was beating the fastest its beaten since the last time it was beating that fast!!
Playing this game of paintball this weekend made me appreciate much more the sacrifice our brothers and sisters, mums and dads, sons and daughters, friends, relatives and the strangers we have heard about on the news and in the movies have mad by going to war for their Country, for me...for You.....

...For us all

Sue - This one is for you!!!

2007-03-04T20:14:00.000Z

Hi, Well I have to confess...
I wasn't planning on writing another post just yet but as I arrived to my Church meeting this morning I was greeted by a great friend. She asked me when I was planning on writing my next post. I told her that I had been thinking about the content but had not really got around to posting it.
well her it is...

I have just seen a really nice picture from what I think is Sues wedding day - Sue you look a real princess and what can I say about hubby - what a prince!!

From August 2001 I spent a year in Malawi, Africa. Working in an orphanage. This was a great time, from then On I really knew that I was meant to spend some time in Malawi other that those 12 months. Before I can go and work for the Lord in Malawi I think I need to be reminded of the national language- Chichawa. My wife, who also shares the passion for the African nation found a reli cool training CD which you simply pop into the PC and repeat what the bloke says on the screen - this is great. If you see me around please ask how it is going and I will try to reply in Chichawa! But do forgive me if I get it all wrong.
During my stay in Malawi I was taught a really cool game called Bao ( this game has loads of different names but this is the one I remember) I Did get quite good at the game even to the extent that I could beat the locals at it.
I was realy impresed to find this game on line the other day after searching for it for an age.
I will continue to play this game so when Jackie and I return to Malawi I would still hope to give the loacls a challange.

well I think this is a good place to end today but I will return soon.
Thanks for reading
Tim

my first blog

2007-02-23T04:10:00.000Z

well, this is my first blog. today is a day that will go down in history as the day Tim Prentice became a blogger!well here goes. I suppose I should come clean.... A good friend at church started writting a blog and his inspired me to do the same. its not really a different thing these days as loads of folk are now bloggers. I am amazed that this day has now come by.

I will try to keep tis up to date with things I am challanged and inspired by, with the places i willl be visiting and the people who are making the biggests impace in my life.

I hope you ill all be hooked by my writtings and come back and visit again - you can even add this site to your favorites.

You may wounder what this image is for - well I just thought it looked nice.