The team members are there to help. If you need them, ring them!
So here's a bit about the team, starting with the "fixtures & fittings" brigade and moving on to the fresher faces!
'Chubby Dunx' & 'Mum' have been there from the start of the Service's inception by our former leader, "Father McConky", through all it's ups and downs to it's firmly founded present state. Their six and a half years with the service have seen a lot of changes. Dunx has gone from humble plumbing merchant to highly educated post-graduate, and Wendy has gone from museum based graphic designer to one woman global population expantion machine! This is one couple that really know how to express love for each other, even to the point of marrying twice!
Dickie is another one in for the duration. Our 'elder statesman' is a bit of a globe-trotter: his work as a Lancaster University Management Lecturer sees Richard heading of to Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, and most of the rest of the world. He says its to lecture on management type things: we reckon it's to eat foreign food and to party using lame excuses like celebrating some dead bloke inventing an algorithm! Richard has frequently been used to play God in LES sketches - which just goes to show you where a beard will get you!
'Tubby Nutty Fatty Bloke' has been involved for 6 years (he got 6 months off for good behaviour!). As a Bible College survivor David is occasionally responsible for spouting forth religious gobbledegook which the rest of the team take great pleasure in forcing him to then explain in real language. David is on a perpetual diet (and constantly backsliding in the food area of life!) and is afflicted with wearing shorts for most of the year. The occupation of the tubby fella is Manager of The Information Shop for Young People in Morecambe.
Ade has been involved for a good few years, and Ceri has been involved somewhat more heavily since they got married a year back (because she now lives in Lancaster - which is convenient for both the service and Adrian!). Laid-back and creative respectively describe their key attributes. Work-wise they are education orientated, with Ade teaching and Ceri Teacher Training.
Emma is our resident dancing queen, regularly finding the urge to just go for it and dance her heart out. Emma is very small person orientated, which is convenient as she works as a nanny. She also pretends to be a 'little bit stoopid', yet her regular incisive words of wisdom give away her more intelligent status. Emma also pretends to be shy, but her drama work, dancing, prayers and readings prove her capabilities in front of large crowds.
No, not The Paul Whitehouse of Fast Show fame, but equally funny (with the advantage of not being so ugly!). Paul is our resident greengrocer, and part of our famous 'Paul & Dunx' comedy duo (you should have checked them out at the b:real event!). Paul also survived bible college which means he is occasionally sentenced to preach at LES. He has kept quiet about that talent for a while, but, take note Mr. Whitehouse, your absence from the preaching rota has been noticed and will be duly corrected!
'Rosie & Jim' are a relatively recent addition to the team, and are the driving force and visionaries for the b:real event(s). They are perpetually in a hurry ("sorry we're late we were at so-and-so's" / "got to dash we've got to get to so-and-so's...") Dave and Rosie are a Garage Mechanic and Practice Nurse. Autumn '97 sees them off to Ghana for three weeks, and Dave is having to smuggle enough parts to make half a Landrover into the country to fix his relatives car: a serious busman's holiday!
Wend is another of our student leaders, doing a management course at Lancaster University, and, coincidentally one of Richard's star pupils! Wend has many talents, including outstanding budgetary capabilities (looks likely to be b:real treasurer next year!) and a realistic (pessimistic?) outlook on life. Wend has an obsession with fast cars, hence she owns the fastest car on the college campus (including lecturers!) and also has a remarkably positive calming affect upon David (Nuttall), her partner of 3 1/2 years.
"Who hell Len?" is a post-graduate Social Work student and retired(?!) Youth Pastor who joined our team twelve months ago. Nicknamed "Who hell Len?" as he was invited to join our team after months of discussion with only two people managing to put a face to the name! Len is a helpful resource as both an experienced youth worker and preacher, and thankfully fits in well with our last-minute planning strategy and Service running.
Martin - no nickname yet - is a definite new kid on the block as he only joined the leadership team at the end of September '97. Martin has played the "reflective & quiet" member of the team role so far, but his ever present sense of humour will no doubt break onto the scene shortly. Look out for his forthcoming involvement in our regular silly sketches!