Dave Halls

 

Long before that, with an eighteen month old son, Wendy and I started a theatre group that, within a year, turned into a church. We were the oldest members until my parents came to join us. Today we have four children, all married, six grandchildren and Wendy teaches young people with behaviour problems.

 

In Dayspring I lead the Core Team, focus on Dayspring's big ideas, and look after the teaching programme so as to help everybody develop an all round spirituality with God’s mission at its heart. Much of the rest of my time is spent drinking coffee with other church leaders and planning how we can do more things together. 

 

Over the last few years I have been thinking and writing about how we can pass on to the rising generation a church which is not tied to eighties culture and is thoroughly charismatic without being afraid to challenge hype and unreality. 

 

Life here and now—in Wiltshire, with Dayspring—is where I want to be so it’s hard to imagine an alternative. I suppose it would involve living somewhere warm, learning to scuba dive and to sail safely and having the grandkids all living around the corner with their parents ready to collect them when they have done rioting in our house.

 

I do have a blog at www.davehalls.org but I do have to be really stirred up to write something. I guess that now that the Dayspring site is so much easier for me to get into I am more likely to write there instead.  (By the way, with Wendy and me in this picture is Toby.  I have a tight grip because he is rather interested in the canal just behind).