Tour // Oxford

We're on the road after doing our first event in Oxford with 700 people packing out St Aldate's for a great evening celebration. It's fantastic to finally be out on the tour after months of preparation and planning.

We're traveling with a great team of musicians, production and events team, and in total there are 14 of us and all our production gear packed into a sleeper bus, which is great fun (if a little on the tight side). We had a slightly nervous start to the day as we had to work really hard to fit everything in! Our vision for doing these events is to take Worship Central out to the four corners of the UK, as we've only done the UK events in London so far. We feel really passionate about encouraging worship teams and for us this tour is as much about learning from what God is doing in teams across the country as anything else. The night was great fun, with people from churches right across Oxfordshire gathering and there was a real sense of celebration and worship. We met some great people and there's a real passion for Jesus here. We've been really amazed at how many different churches are represented from literally right across the denominations. We had fun catching up with some old friends tonight and it's been a very encouraging start to this trip. As I write we're on the bus overnight to York - that's the great advantage of a sleeper bus - we had all the gear loaded by 11pm and will arrive for breakfast in York with a full day ahead to prepare. The only disadvantage is that there are 14 of us crammed into bunks and there's hardly room to breathe! Anyway, thank you to everyone who came along in Oxford and we'll update you on how tomorrow goes!