Rumours of delivery of the Handbook

Rumours reached Geneva yesterday that the assembly handbook was about to be delivered to the Congress Centre. This is good news - well we hope it is good news, I seem to remember that there was something about the delivery arrived but no one was there to unload the books. Anyway I'm sure the books will be there for us to fill into the great new bags once we start work on Monday.
If you want a sneak preview you can download it here.

However, what we really want to know is have the stewards all arrived yet? What are you guys up to? We need you to post to the blog folk, at this stage it doesn't need to be profound - though of course we would like to know your thoughts on hope for Europe and Ecumenism.
Also try to sign up both yourselves and get your member churches to sign up for our twitter feed http://twitter.com@cecassembly - I'm thinking about the press room issuing a daily blog and twitter challenge - a resumé of your day at the assembly in 140 keystrokes. More about that soon!

The assembly bags have arrived!

So here is a first picture of the new CEC Assembly bag, modelled here by Sandrine from the assembly office. It's got really nice long handles and should be big enough to take all the documents. The only reason Sandrine is looking a bit concerned on the picutre is that once we all arrive in Lyon all of the bags for delegates will have to be filled ... quite a bit of work!

The computers are getting packed and we're online with twitter!

Today in Brussels, Strasbourg and Geneva preparations for the assembly are in their final phase. Most of the staff computers in Geneva will get packed up and driven to Lyon this afternoon.
As we all know the assembly is about hope ... today the main hope is that it will all go well!
In the offices in Geneva the spirit is good, the corridors are filling up with boxes to be shipped and the CEC assembly has started tweeting find us here twitter.com@cecassembly
maybe you could start tweeting too, that would be good and you can even do it from your mobile phones!
Annie will be the first CEC member of staff to arrive in Lyon. Stewards will start to meet tomorrow. Anyway folks, we're nearly there and it's going to be hard work but good fun too!
Keep hoping ;-)