On Monday I've got a dress rehearsal for my presidential speech, which I'll give at this year's Grasp The Vision conference. I've been writing it in my head for months and yet getting it committed to paper (well, electronic paper) is proving more elusive than Gillingham's quest for an away win this season.

I spent the entire weekend completely ill. I went to bed on Friday with a small headache, only to find that by the morning it was a stomach bug of some kind and the only solution was to stay in bed and moan. It didn't actually make me better, but goodness, there's nothing better than a good moan when you're feeling ill.

Because the weekend was wiped out, I decided naturally to spend Monday installing Windows 7. Well, I had to really. We've been trying the release candidate since last summer and it runs out this coming Monday, March 1. I've grown quite attached to Windows 7 and the thought of going back to XP fills me with dread. Although I'm growing partial to Ubuntu (Linux) too.

So tonight - more speech writing? Nah! More procrastinating. Well, vital work. A proof-read of Men Matters and some more software installation. I now have all the programmes installed apart from one and am ready to go again. Will I? I'll probably end up tidying my desk instead.

So please pray for me. This speech is going to be very important, setting out my vision for our Movement over the coming years and how you can grasp the vision for men's ministry in your home town too. If that's not a lot of boxes to tick, I don't know what is.

Every blessing

Phil Creighton

BMM President