On 19th July, our guest speaker - Paul Blundell (from Alive Church in Lincoln) finished our Rooted Series talking about the "Practice of Presence". He talked from Genesis 28, focusing on Jacob’s encounter with God at Bethel. He began by describing how easily we can be physically present yet mentally distracted, often missing what God is already doing around us. Jacob arrived at an ordinary, unnamed place while running from his past, yet there he discovered that “Surely the Lord is in this…