Nigel Mann a ministry team member at nccc has caught the blogging infection and has started his new blog over at eucaview. It will have a particular emphasis on our missional team which is connecting with the South Morang communities living in brand new suburbs north of melbourne.

Fresh sweet corn from the garden - grown by my own hands - straight into the pot 60 seconds after I have picked them. How good do they taste!!

Chris has linked up all the bloggers who were at liquid. Thank you Chris for your initiative in organising this. Go over and check out emergent layer as well as all the links he has posted.
I love his description of Dan and my name.. A result of my bad handwriting I am sure.

In the comments thread on a previous post I have suggested that everyone might want to take a break and comment on other posts elsewhere. Phil and I are pretty busy lately so there probably hasn’t been a lot of thoughtful content to distract your attention from flogging dead horses. There is plenty […]

Liquid is on the way. We have a number of bloggers represented at Liquid - so I am sure they will be updating their blogs with their thoughts soon. I will post up a list of bloggers who are attending shortly.
We have started with some quick input and dialogue on the issues of culture, justice […]

Anyone who in a meeting or a discussion says that XYZ is where my/their/the organisations heartbeat is, meaning this is the core of the missional focus. As in “I don’t want to spend hours talking about A or B, that’s not where my heartbeat is”.
Heard this way too much recently and it seems weird […]

An encounter with someone in our community.
“Is this a Church?” Yes.
“Doesn’t look like a Church” Well, I guess not we have rennovated a warehouse that was originally built as a roller skating rink.
“But, you have people outside that smoke!” Yes, some of the people involved in the Church smoke.
“But, you can’t know Jesus and smoke”
Mmmm…

Our “non core” interest rates look set to rise under a Howard Government. Oh Shock horror!

OK, well we didn’t meet any hobbits while we were in New Zealand. I did find this most disappointing. But, we did meet some wonderful people, learn some insights from our partners in ministry and saw some wonderful sights.
Some of my reflections in no particular order:
1. Steve, Lynne, Shannon and Kayli Taylor are the most […]

I have been facinating LT with a collection of Aussie words and phrases. Here are a few I have taught him.
dunny
Fair Dinkum
Crikey (he knew that one for some reason:) )
Barbie
Dodgy
Grouse
Can you suggest any others?