The second to the last Alpha was a typical night with a speaker and worship and everything, but this time the people who came had just gotten back from the "Alpha Away Day" which is the little retreat. It sounded really neat and it showed those who were truely dedicated.
We served about half the amount of people that started out coming to the Alpha Course on the first night, but we still set up for the same number of people. It is really neat to see the faith of the people at St. Aldates. I love how much they pray and intercede before each Tuesday night.
We came and most of everything was laready set up for some reason. Usually, we have to do a lot more beforehand, but I guess people had showed up early and set up most of the table settings. The only real things left for us to do was divie up the desserts and slice up lemons for the water.
It has been really neat to see that even this late in the game, those on leadership at the church and the volunteers for the Alpha Course are doing everything as nice, neat, and professional as they started out. People hadn't been slacking or anything.
I ended up serving dinner next to a sweet young girl from Oxford named Georgie. We got to talk a lot too, which is always fun and interesting. I got to see Joceclyn again too and talk and joke with her a bit more as well.
The prayers and everything went a bit longer so we stayed a little bit later to clean up, as to not disturb any group prayers and discussions. At this point the discussions were getting even deeper and the prayers longer. So we cleaned and helped out for a little longer than normal, but we also did not have to do as much at the beginning.
Overall, it was a great night. To top it off, the interns invited us over to hang out again, which was loads of fun. It was encouraging to be around them
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