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08/09/2003 Entry: "Richard’s Sermon on the mount! Updates from earlier this morning…"
PITTON
Most of us that were at Horton travelled from Horton to the service in Pitton and before he arrived, Doreen Leighton, Pitton Steward, read from Luke 9 v1-6 in which it says “Take nothing for your journey …. And do not have two tunics” to which Hildegarde commented, that Richard could have done with two tunics in such hot weather.A little later than scheduled he arrived at Pitton. He was cheerful since this meant that he was now one third of the way through this huge ordeal, but hot, flushed and in need of some water.
Prayers were led by Doreen and then he started reading from Ephesians 6 v 10 and preached about protecting ourselves as Christians using the Spirit as a sword and our faith as our shield, since we try to live by a code of conduct that can sometimes run against the grain of general society as we know it.
The closing hymn was accompanied by June Thomas and was “God of all power, and truth and grace, which shall from age to age endure, whose word, when heaven and earth shall pass, remains and stands for ever sure”.
Richard began his journey up to Reynoldston for 11:00am (I think he had 25 minutes to get there) and the congregation in Pitton had tea, coffee and biscuits.
All the best Richard. We’re thinking about you and we’ll see you in Sketty tonight, all being well. By the way, can someone warn Lance Armstrong that he had better watch out next year on the Tour de France.
