Long live the Revolution

Greetings Comrades

It’s been two weeks since my last communication when I set some pretty challenging targets of 70 people signed up for SP07 while I was away on holiday. It seems that I was too easy on you, too soft, not demanding or challenging enough as you waltzed through that target with 87 delegates plus small team leaders. I had planned on setting 100 as your next mission but it all seems too easy now….so with just 10 DAYS left can we get to 120? Can you round up, press gang, lasso, kidnap, arm twist, blackmail or otherwise persuade anyone not signed up to do so. If we can get to 120 perhaps we can get Simon Iddon to do something really silly (feel free to post ideas at http://soulpurposeshrewsbury.blogspot.com/) and that would be fun for everyone….the possibilities are well endless really.

So where are we at with everything else? Well halls have been booked, bouncy castles ordered, projects scouted, tools bought, and flyers printed which leads me cunningly to my next point. This Sunday, May the 20^th at 3pm from the Church of the Holy Spirit (drum roll please) well - we’re delivering the flyers to the whole area to tell them Soul Purpose is coming and we need your help. The more there are, the quicker the job gets done, simple as that. We’ve 5000 flyers to deliver but this is more than just a flyer through a letterbox this is 5000 homes to inform, tens of thousands of people to reach (who knows – the house you deliver to, could be a changed life forever) so please there won’t be anything better to do (even if it’s raining).

Speaking of which, lovely weather isn’t it? Nothing at all like the weather we experienced on holiday, in Cuba where it was boring and sunny every day. Cuba is an amazing place and is one of the very few communist countries left in the world. All over Cuba are banners and posters with slogans from the revolution, things like ‘Long live socialism’, ‘Defend the revolution’ and stuff like that. Anyway it made me see that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and co were all motivated by a desire to help the poor, Che Guevara even said that it was his aim to ‘create a new man’, people who were motivated to help one another. That’s good and I agree with that but I think the best way of doing that is through showing the love of Jesus Christ to people in practical ways that they can understand like sorting their garden. I don’t know if you realised this but Soul Purpose is revolutionary, it wants to change society and remove injustice, it wants to encourage people to know and love their neighbour and to do it all with a smile on our face. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

So sign up, get your mates to sign up, come and deliver flyers and pray like crazy that everything falls into place and the sun shines all weekend because Soul Purpose is only 10 days away!

Long live the revolution

Phil