OK I know it’s nerdy to get excited about this sad techy stuff… but look what I have now on the home page of my iphone!

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If you have an iPhone and fancy having The Dock blog just one button-push away, it’s really easy…  just go to The Dock website on Safari (www.thedockchurch.org), hit the ‘+’ button at the bottom of the screen, click ‘Add To Home Screen’, edit the title to just ‘The Dock’ (or whatever you prefer), and lo and behold!  Your very own Dock app.  Hitting the button brings you straight to the latest section of the blog, or changing the ‘Mobile Theme’ at the bottom of the page from ‘On’ to ‘Off’ brings you to the whole website.  Is it sad and pathetic that I’m so excited by this?
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(with apologies to all who have not yet joined the Church Of iPhone)

I’m just back from a couple of days in beautiful snowy Edinburgh with a great group of gap year students called the Jump Team – they’ve all taken a year out to work in churches, and especially with young people, throughout Ireland.  I was there to lead their mid-term retreat but (never miss a trick!) also took some time to CoffeeStorm with them about their ideas for The Dock.  As I think back on the last few weeks, I’ve now had CoffeeStorming meetings (coffee and brainstorming, in case you didn’t catch the earlier blog and have no idea what I’m talking about) with people from a business background, with tourists, with people training for church ministry, with barristers, youth workers, teachers, journalists, students… it has been absolutely fascinating and many, many blank pages have been filled.

At this point the next exciting challenge is to start distilling all those blank pages into something a bit neater – a vision that you could grab hold of without needing me to talk at you for an hour to explain it.  So keep your eyes on the website over the next week or two and I’ll try to update as often as I can as it all comes together.

One thing’s for sure… I have a sense of where it’s all going and it is, hands down, the most exciting thing I have been involved with in my whole life.