Chris on March 4th, 2010

September 3rd – 6th sees the 11th annual Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly. For more details check out the cosyblog. This will be the first Youth assembly since 2000 that I am not in the age bracket for (the years before 2000, I was too young and the assemblies were every three years). I [...]

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Chris Hoskins on September 9th, 2009

Today marks a year to the day that I started blogging.
It’s been quite a year: so much has happened and I’ve changed in many, many ways!
I feel much more settled in myself since last year, a lot more confident in myself and much happier in general!
Thank you to everyone who has read my blog, especially [...]

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Chris Hoskins on September 5th, 2009

NYA has been pretty awesome so far.
It’s slightly bizarre thatm after being hosted by the Apex hotel in Dundee for 6 years, we’re in a sprawling University campus in Stirling. Usually everyone would be on top of one another, everything would happen within 2 minutes walk of each other. Instead, there is a good 10 [...]

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Chris Hoskins on July 2nd, 2009

Having missed Canada day yesterday (but thanks to my dodgy computer calendar only realizing that after making ‘Happy Canada Day’ my facebook status I thought this would be a good time to write a post I’ve been meaning to write for ages!.
Those of you who know me, know that I have something of a love [...]

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Chris Hoskins on June 25th, 2009

As I write this, Michal Jackson may have died. I first saw the news on one of my friends status updates on Facebook, since then it seems to be firing round everyone, twitter is repeatedly overloaded, I suspect because many people sharing the news with each other. Those who have shared it on Facebook are [...]

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Chris Hoskins on May 27th, 2009

Tuesday was a manic day at the assembly!
It started earlier than most days, with a video about the emerging church being played at 9:15am by the ministries council. It was looking at 2 projects the council has involvement in: the Harbor Front project in Glasgow and the ARK project in Stirling (I think!?). It was [...]

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Chris Hoskins on May 22nd, 2009

A large part of the General Assembly experience as a youth representative is the ‘community’ that is built around the group of youth delegates throughout the week. We o have an advantage over most other delegates in this area in that we all stay together in the same accommodation and share time of worship, fellowship [...]

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Chris Hoskins on May 21st, 2009

I’m a youth representative at the Church of Scotland General Assembly (GA) this year. This will be the 6th and final time I come as a youth rep. I’ve always found GA to be an inspiring week. I love the passion that often comes out, hearing about stuff the Church is involved in, having an [...]

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Chris Hoskins on May 14th, 2009

Last night, Linda and I went to see the new Star Trek film. Getting Linda to go was definetely a victory for J.J. Abrams! Linda’s never been a Sci-Fi, or more specifically a Star Trek, Fan! I however have been a trekkie for a good 15 years now! And have grown up watching it all [...]

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Chris Hoskins on March 19th, 2009

On Tuesday my trusted camera, an S800fd fuji model stopped working. I was gutted. I’ve been struggling with various things over the last few years and photography has become my main release and escape. i am getting it replaced, unfortunatly not under warranty! In the meantime Linda is letting me use her wee point and [...]

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