Jesus or Terroist

You may remember my efforts in Mo-vember last year and the school's $1000 for cancer research. Well my mo (pointy beard included) kept on going. I now look like a cross between Jesus and a terroist... Nice
At work, I'm known as Jesus, however the time has come to remove this hidious growth...
So as another fundraising effort, its going to go - one more month. Again the target is $1000, this time for Leukaemia. Being Jesus did have it's up's - but being a terroist did have its down.. like being held two and a half hours in customs!

Conversations around Re-thinking Paradigms of Mission in the Post-Christian West

From the FORGE WA website.... " This day long seminar will explore key shifts in missional paradigms as the western world has increasingly moved away from its Judea -christian base and again become a missionary environment"

It looks good, if your into wrestling with missional thoughts, church/gathering development and good fellowship, then see you there.

Worth a looksie...

Seeds of Hope

Seeds of Hope is an annual breakfast by TEAR WA. It aims to encourage biblical thinking on the issues of poverty, injustice, advocacy and development. This mornings speaker was Brian Harris, the Principal of the Baptist Theological College. He spoke of our blessings and our responsibilty towards others ... pretty thoughful comments. After this local fieldworkers Toni (Nepal) and Julie (Afghanistan) discussed various issues concerning women in development work. This was the highlight for me, to gain a greater understanding of the issues facing development workers, they both had a good message along with some powerful pictures.... not a bad way to start the W.end

Too many books...

Well holidays are over, reality has settled in and life turns back into the cycle of work and more work...
I finished off my time in Sri-Lanka with a week in Bangkok and surrounding areas - highlight of that was definately riding a tiger...Yes a tiger, this one infact - just after that monk finished patting him.




Hmm so work has begun, with its usual insanely busy start - Each year this creeps up on me and I forget how busy the first month is... Other than that, WILD camp stuff is starting to gain momentum, school has asked me to do WAY too much extra stuff and outside of these things its also time to consider training for the Avon Descent again and working out what to do about church stuff more specifically this year - that last one is by far the most daunting on the list...
The holidays were also good for reading, hence the title of this entry, HEAPS of reading was undertaken, too much to write blogs about each book. Lets just say UNOH books are excellent- go and read some!
hmm off to do more work...