{"id":113,"date":"2007-08-01T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/08\/01\/almost_there\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T10:13:07","slug":"almost_there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/08\/01\/almost_there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"us_airways_logo.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/us_airways_logo.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"47\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" border=0 \/>For a prayer movement, we&#8217;re way too busy.  And the perpetual challenge of setting time aside to pray seems to be even more intense than usual right now.  But I don&#8217;t want to complain &#8211; in only two more days, I fly off to the States for one whole, blissful month.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m quite good at taking fairly regular short breaks, but my trip to the US is my first long break for about a year.  And boy do I need it!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMy impending trip is the reason for my feeling quite so pressured at the moment.  As well as trying to make sure I complete some fairly important tasks, I need to make sure that a whole bunch of things happen smoothly while I&#8217;m away.  It is all slowly coming together though&#8230;<br \/>\nLast weekend I was up in sunny Sheffield for our latest 24-7 UK Team meeting.  Phil Togwell, Ian Nicholson, Charlotte Terris, Lucie Shuker, Georgina Mickwright and I trekked up to Viki Ward&#8217;s house for a wonderful time of eating together, and planning the months ahead for 24-7 in the UK.  I think it was the first time I felt we were truely working as a team &#8211; each of us able to contribute to the wider discussion about what was going on in each of our areas of responsability, and a strong desire to help each other out in any way we could to see God further His work through 24-7.  The year ahead promises some exciting times!<br \/>\nUnfortunately, travel wasn&#8217;t as smooth.  I got up at five to six, and didn&#8217;t get back home until about half past midnight.  Isn&#8217;t our rail network in the UK wonderful?!  OK, there was a small matter of flood damage, but in this day and age, they really should have had their website up to date so that I could effectively plan my route home >:-|<br \/>\nAnyway&#8230;<br \/>\nI finally got all my urgent 24-7 tasks out of the way at 00:45 last night.  Phew.  So, as I write this sitting on a train to Gatwick airport, I&#8217;m looking forward soooo much to a few weeks of well earned R&#038;R.<br \/>\nMore news on American adventures soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a prayer movement, we&#8217;re way too busy. And the perpetual challenge of setting time aside to pray seems to be even more intense than usual right now. But I don&#8217;t want to complain &#8211; in only two more days, I fly off to the States for one whole, blissful month. I&#8217;m quite good at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/08\/01\/almost_there\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost there&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}