African Enterprise
The Rev Richard Bewes began the Autumn breakfast talks with  an informative and amusing description of his early years in East Africa. He described growing up as part of a Pioneering missionary family living with a tribe. He then continued with the more serious theme of a "Bitter Sweet" continent by describing some of the recent aspects of Africa's history, her problems both new and enduring. His examples came from Uganda and Rwanda and South Africa with its crime and AIDS soaring out of control. Richard felt that Zimbabwe would be even more dangerous with the end of Mugabe. The conflict with Islam in Darfur was explained by the little publicised fact that Saudi Arabia is pouring in millions of petro-dollars with the declaration to build a minaret every mile. Richard ended on a positive note with some of the work of AE. The Christian Church is growing and even some Moslems are being converted. The Ugandan AIDS level has reduced from 60% to 5% by the practice of abstinence. A donation was made to African Enterprise.

Intimacy

Rev Harry Pritchard in his second helping at the Team Breakfast took for his theme that of "Intimacy". He set the scene for our relationship with God by reminding us of the nature of man in God's image. And naturally woman, saying that "what women want" is to be loved, respected, listened to, hugged "and obeyed" was added from an audience member. Harry, who qualified as a minister last November, used the humour of this comment and went on to define the nature of intimacy by reminding us of the various meanings of love in the Greek language. Showing how the Western view has diluted and distorted this idea of Intimacy. He illustrated how Jesus had different relationships with his disciples. Thomas, for example, was like most people difficult to convince. Peter he felt as being at times somewhat distant but John as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” was rewarded with the Revelation.
In a very interactive session he got his audience to describe their favourite pastime and to quantify their intimacy with God. Most of the audience were in the 3 to 7 range. The exit donation will be used by Harry's church to assist an Eritrean woman with her medical care.

In something of radical departure Tim Robinson, deputy editor Aerospace International, an accomplished nominated and widely published technical journalist gave a detailed amusing talk, illustrated with high quality image and video clips, about his recent prize trip to Russia. Here he was the guest of Sokol Aircraft Plant and enjoyed a supersonic flight in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum trainer (18.5 tonnes in low tech full fighting trim) with their chief test pilot. Tim gave the impression that the pilots regard for the environment, safety and technology came second only to the thrill of mach speeds and practise dog-fight manoeuvres . He said that although the Russians were personally friendly the enormous gas and oil revenues were allowing the "Bears" to fly more practise missions against the West. So a return to "From Russia with Menace".
 The question of how Christianity relates to the development of warplanes as weapons of destruction was raised by Tim but left unanswered. The exit donation was made to the Royal British Legion.

Congleton Youth Project Ltd
In the last of the 2007 talks, Justine Heathcote, the full time co-ordinator of the Youth Project for 13-25y olds, gave a high-speed illustrated overview of its diverse rôle. Justine described the two sections, each with their own Youth worker: first the Youth Info Shop where all types of confidential advice is available. The second string, the V:be Youth Café, opens for drop-in monday and wednesday evenings and saturday lunchtime. Justine illustrated some of the adventure trips and the planned introduction of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. In cases of hardship, sickness and distress CYP can interact with other National and Charity bodies and are to be found at 24 High St for all Youth help (apart from Wigwam(Tipi) construction!)
The exit donation went to the CYP.