Roughshod on the Road: Bodmin

Rob HolmanWe spent a week winning at life in Bodmin which was absolutely great. For the start of the week Mike and I had our own bachelor pad / luxury chalet, before we moved were over to a ‘cosier’ cabin. But with the generous hosts and amazing meals that came along with it, we were more than happy to be downsized.

Of everything we did in Bodmin, the highlight of the week had to be the Bush Conference over the weekend. We were the resident theatre company for this Cornish Christian Camp, or CCC for short. (Though this does make us CCCP – that’s Cornish Christian Camp Performers… though it was too warm to get the big soviet hats out.)

It. was. brilliant.

At the Bush Conference we discovered Great people, amazing worship, good teaching and all the usual campfire shenanigans a good christian camp should have. I found it was a really a great time with God as well. While we’re tour with Roughshod it can be difficult being in a new church every Sunday. Often hard to really respond to anything in a service, especially considering we’re usually there to do a sketch half way through. As such it was great to be properly part of the community at the conference and get the most out of the worship and talks.

A particular highlight for me was the privilege to pray with a girl who’d been moved by my personal story. This was made especially poignant by the fact she was still testing the waters and exploring her faith. I later found out she has decided to become a christian, and said that the sketch and me praying for her really helped. This is all the more awesome because she knows how to spin fire too! And I feel it’s something sorely lacking in the church… flippin’ health and safety, “but the pews and curtains and children are flammable” pah!

Roughshod in the paper - malvernAfter we said our goodbyes to Bodmin (and our host Mary’s awesome cooking *sigh*), we had a couple of days off, a rarely given luxury, and we all went our separate ways for a day or two. I went on to Malvern, to the bible college I graduated from last year, where I visited my fiancée. After a couple of lovely days hanging out with the bible college crowd and the wife to be, Roughshod came to join me!

In fact, Regents Theological College was the next stop on our tour. I hope the visit was a nice reminder to the students that there is life outside of the bible college bubble. I’m allowed to say that, I spent three years there. Considering I’m a graduate of the first year of their new(ish) Performing Arts and Theology Course, I felt something of a responsibility to give them a glimpse of the brighter and better things after graduation…no pressure or anything. Fortunately our iWitness show went really well, we had a great crowd (about 90, thanks to my fiancée’s star organisational skills (she even got us in the newspaper (shown in the attached photo (hang on, how many brackets is that? erm… ))) and one more) and they loved it.

Rob