At Spring Harvest Skegness
Spring Harvest and me... we have history. Back when I worked at Prospects for People with Learning Disabilities, my charity would usually run inclusive ministry sessions - but that wasn't my part of the work. I was responsible for the exhibition part, where we'd have a stand in the resources section and talk to anyone who would listen about how people with learning disabilities not only could, but should be part of church life. I'm not a natural salesperson so being at this stand for hours on end was close to my idea of purgatory... the occasional lovely conversation just didn't make up for the hours of standing there smiling and waiting. Plus, it cost the charity a fortune to exhibit there! Spring Harvest had always been the biggest and most important, but also the most expensive place we went. I've been to Minehead and Skegness as an exhibitor. Many years later, Open Ears (the charity for deaf people I served by subtitling at meetings and events) asked me to go