Random photos and chats

I caught the trees changing colour before they lost all their leaves. It was magnificent for a few days then it rained really hard and the moment was gone. NB: Must take camera everywhere.
The property is a heritage site and is in the top 6% of listed properties in the UK (think thats right) and is a great example of olden style architecture...plus it looks really cool. This is just next to where we live in the Oakhurst Cottage. If you go left through that black gate you are on Paradise Row

This little path is the sneaky back and quick way to classes in the main building at the end. I'm not allowed to go that way unless im with a staff member because some staff quarters backs onto it and its their private space. i have to make a confession that when im late...(ahem) i go that way. But i ask forgiveness afterwards! he he Not far from Pierrepont is the Little Pond made famous by another blog entry, and this is the walk there...Its pretty hey? This is where we met our first squirrels, and im pretty sure i squealed with delight. Obviously this is Phoebe writing.
And this is Little Pond. The sunsets have been amazing and moved too quick for me to capture the even more radiant colours, but its not bad. There is a path all around the pond and students and staff often come on prayer walks around it. Tim was running every monday night around it but its too dark after work now. He has to settle for indoor footy in the conference hall with the guys on team.

Today we had our first demonstration ministry in the Accident & Trauma class, and Jill Southern (Pierrepont Director), taught all about the effects of an accident on the human spirit. It was amazing and it makes so much sense that you wonder how come noone ever said it before, but thats pretty much what its like here. Two classmates volunteered and were ministered to while we were the intercession team and were picking up the how to's. It was an invaluable class for both the person being ministered to, and us! They got healed, and we learned that no ministry is the same, even if the accident is similar. Because everyone is unique and responds in their own way to an accident or trauma, and believes certain lies about themselves that are unique to them, or believes certain things about God etc. it was such a beautiful time of healing...we were all a mess. i really know that i know that i know that i am called into this ministry, and so its exciting when you are thinking, do this..or i think the person needs healing here...and they do that and you know you are in sync with the way of doing things. i have actually ministered on my own to 2 people so far, with a lead counsellor on a healing retreat, as part of our deliverence workshops which we did in groups in class, and as an intercessor during a 3 day conference. So I am learning heaps. This week conming we have Restoring the Human Spirit which i am looking forward to, and Healing through Creativity where i am hoping to get my hands on some clay, and then Freedom from Fear where Tim will join me in class...that will be fun. well, you know what i mean.