LUCF beard growing competition

This guy has a great beard, doesn't he? I'm not sure what chemicals he's using on his beard, but it seems to work on his smile too! He's one of the winners in the annual world beard growing championships.

At Lincoln Uni Christian Fellowship we can't make those sorts of standards, but each year we give it a go. This year, anyone was welcome to spend April growing beards, before their efforts were judged by the whole LUCF. The owner of the best beard gets the trophy and the honour of carving his (or her, we're not gender exclusive!) name into the plinth.

Seven took up the challenge this year, including me for the first time. The field was quickly narrowed down to three - Phil, Clint and myself. It was a close run thing, but Phil was judged the winner. See if you agree - here's Phil, Clint and me:




Tom and Jonno are two fine bearded members of LUCF (who didn't want to be clean shaven on Good Friday to join the competition), who, sadly, couldn't convince Phil, Clint or me to keep growing our beards to their lofty heights.

Here's Tom (and me):

And here's Jonno:


As can be seen - i've no hope of competing with Tom or Jonno.

The beard growing competition this year was a laugh. It's a great community thing and works well for Lincoln - various flatmates of those in CF kept asking why Christians were growing beards which led to some interesting conversations about Jesus (and sometimes conversations discussing what sort of beard Jesus would have had). So that's good. And Phil is a worthy winner and gets to keep the trophy - a razor stuck on a bit of wood - for a whole year.

Should I enter next year, despite me not liking the itchiness? Answers welcome....