Making progress

It's interesting how you make decisions based on sketchy information and then change them when you find out more. We've been looking at the details of four different curacies over the last 2 weeks - some of which we knew little about at the point of first contact, others for which we had a full 20 page 'Parish Profile'.

As time has gone on and I've gradually got the same level of information about each one the mental priorities we've had have been constantly adjusting up and down. Two parishes that we thought we liked the sound of turns out not to be so great, one that I'd love to be in hasn't responded as yet (so I can assume that someone else has been offered that one. And the one I wasn't sure about initially is now looking very interesting and wants to talk to me more.

So now I need to arrange a date to visit a friendly vicar, to go and find out if we think we can work together and to get a feel for the area and the churches. If we both like each other, everybody will be happy. My initial phone conversation was encouraging, so let's see what happens.