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 A quality event is bound to have several highlights and the 2009 Assembly was certainly a quality event. For a start, the local organisers had booked both the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference. After a thought-provoking opening by Mr David Walton (Vice-President) which considered aspects of the nature of preaching, the keynote address by Rev Stephen Poxon (President) was both encouraging and challenging. He noted evidence of preachers and worship leaders exploring interesting and appropriate ways of leading worship and preaching but he encouraged us to go further and offered us an interesting range of possibilities. Stephen is keen to pursue this work further (like LWPT, ‘enabling the best for worship’) and has promised us an article for Ichthus in 2010. We look forward to sharing it with you next year.
 Next, it was soon clear to all that the church the local organisers had chosen for the Assembly was a vibrant local ecumenical partnership – very appropriate for LWPT (with a long ecumenical tradition) but which is becoming increasingly ecumenical. Here, children, young people and adults showed us how they have been conveying the good news, particularly through music and drama, but also with the use of new technology. There was energy and conviction in what they did, lifting it from mere performance to worship and mission. This kind of approach is what LWPT seeks to promote, whether the context is conventional or contemporary. It was a joy to be with this church community whose commitment was evident in action and music.
 On the Sunday, after leading morning worship in many Lancashire circuits, we returned (with President and Vice-President) to a communion service which started to show how the ideas the two of them presented the previous day could become a reality in worship. We really were feasting.
Highlights like these meant that the excellent way the event had been organised could have been overlooked all too easily. We are grateful to all for an uplifting and sustaining event. The news of this occasion should encourage even more friends to come to Budleigh Salterton next year, where two new District Chairs and keynote speaker Rev Stephen Dawes will be showing us that a quiet seaside town can also host a vibrant time of development and worship. Hope to see you there!
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