tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204760032011-11-27T13:26:59.290+11:00therevheadsjourneyg'day! my internet name has been the ‘revhead’ for a number of years - so that’s who I am here! i’m interested in how we live as god’s people under these very ordinary ‘blue suburban skies - not in some exotic location or place, just in suburbia or rural oz! so, kick back, grab a cuppa ...
This old Blog has been in stasis for a fair while - so lets crank it up and see if it still works!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-66068285356272283282011-11-27T13:26:00.002+11:002011-11-27T13:26:59.304+11:00Ten2 Trainingtherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-8606046413988653482011-09-27T21:48:00.000+10:002011-09-27T21:48:28.779+10:00Space: The Final Frontier!
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As we think about moving into neighbourhoods as the people of God,we often think deeply about what shape a congregation's personal evangelistic or discipleship processes might look like, but less about redemption of the social spaces we find ourselves in. What therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-20866420422928330892011-05-08T18:23:00.000+10:002011-05-08T18:23:18.882+10:00Florida FunThe last three days in Orlando were spent hanging out with Caity, who's spending the year in the States.
We did the toursity / theme-parky thing:
NASA, Cape Kennedy was cool and informative. Absolutely amazing to think of the ingenuity of that team which landed Apollo 11 on the moon with computers using the crunching power of a modern calculator ... Assuming of course, that they DID land on the therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-41445055771201215142011-05-06T09:26:00.002+10:002011-05-06T09:42:34.062+10:00REFLECTIONS ON EXPONENTIAL 2011
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Around all the corridors and common areas are sponsors and resource-ministry stalls staffed by friendly and helpful people, often with generous therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-21511442837158032402011-04-27T22:50:00.001+10:002011-04-27T22:53:42.746+10:0026 April 2011 Day one: Pre-Conference Seminar
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‘Boarded an A380 Airbus – interestingly at a distance they look smaller than the old jumbo Jet – probably because they don’t have the camel’s hump nose therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-76704389724339555562011-04-20T21:51:00.004+10:002011-04-21T09:05:55.921+10:00Off to the States!
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On Good Friday I fly out to Orlando in Florida for the Exponential Conference.
Exponential 2011 hopes to answer this question: “what does it take to see apostolic movement therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-83136679638402444002009-04-19T18:08:00.004+10:002009-04-19T18:14:06.581+10:00time for another shot of leunig! God help us to live slowly:To move simply:To look softly: To allow emptiness:To let the heart create for us.Amen.therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1149402629922749582009-03-08T23:20:00.002+11:002009-03-08T23:28:18.473+11:00Back again!I love the Beatles song “Penny Lane”, a portrait of a village virtually teeming with “nowhere men”. Written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, and released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever". Beatles producer George Martin has said he believes the pairing of these songs resulted in probably the therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-57806294107544314812007-05-05T21:10:00.001+10:002009-03-08T23:20:27.777+11:00This blog has MOVED....!!So long and thanks for the fish... This Site is now closed.therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-48749540901771003532007-02-04T22:36:00.000+11:002007-02-04T22:37:42.621+11:00Q: How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?A : One to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.Fourteen to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.Seven to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.Seven more to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.Three to correct spelling/grammar errors.Six to arguetherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-85340288436468079652007-01-25T11:27:00.000+11:002007-01-25T11:30:52.699+11:00Happy Australia Day!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1166581839912286802006-12-20T13:29:00.000+11:002006-12-20T13:30:39.956+11:00H A P P Y C H R I S T M A S !!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1165958001025687482006-12-13T08:07:00.000+11:002006-12-13T08:19:53.243+11:00When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serveas the touchstone of our judgment.- - - John F. therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1162971929185586482006-11-08T18:39:00.000+11:002006-11-08T18:45:29.210+11:00What is Growth?Saw this in Chris Erdman's Blog ... What do you think?Why reach out? To pull in, or..." Saw this part of a church's ad for a new associate pastor for family and young adult ministries: "The 2,000 member congregation has served God and therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1160285121271634582006-10-08T15:20:00.000+10:002006-10-08T15:25:21.296+10:00Hip Hip Huzzah!The gorgeous miss revhead's birthday this weeek - all cheer please!!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1159081035554398332006-09-24T16:55:00.000+10:002006-09-24T16:57:15.576+10:00therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1157876840376704832006-09-10T18:26:00.000+10:002006-09-10T18:27:20.400+10:00Changes for us!I'm going to be taking some long service leave next year - and then moving into something different!Here's the text of what I shared at our 7pm church service Sunday:Hi guys I want to share with you about how God has been leading us over the last few months....A couple of weeks ago there was an article in the Age about religion and under 30s.Bottom line, therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1157281567853439862006-09-03T21:06:00.000+10:002006-09-03T21:09:45.923+10:00Article from The Baptist WitnessI wrote an article for the Baptist Witness about what makes for effective churches.Some folks wanted a copy. here 'tis:>Witness>Transition or Revolution!.pdftherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1157164560006091032006-09-02T12:35:00.000+10:002006-09-02T12:36:00.033+10:00COMING UPtherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1156207927656426902006-08-22T10:49:00.000+10:002006-08-22T10:52:07.680+10:00Hmmmm...(From Lark News)Man's prophetic actions offer lifestyle of fun GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — In May, Alan Barrett, 26, began performing prophetic acts to send messages from God to the church. "My calling is like Ezekiel and Jeremiah's," he says, referring to prophets who acted out messages from God. But Barrett's prophetic acts have afforded him a lifestyle of leisure, friends say. For therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1156206681140420332006-08-22T10:24:00.001+10:002006-08-22T10:31:21.143+10:00Observing and participatingCan you engage a foreign culture to yourself without entering into it and changing it somehow by your presence and your own ways? We can't remain objective outsiders when doing mission. We become part of the changed equation. Or do we? I think the the cartoon would work just as well with the caption: "Christians! Christians!" or "Missionaries! Missionaries!"therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1154517145473617352006-08-02T21:11:00.000+10:002006-08-03T07:49:04.936+10:00My favourite Larson!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1152011989855213232006-07-04T21:06:00.000+10:002006-07-04T21:22:10.083+10:00Summertime!I was looking at some snaps of our time in torquay, last summer - thought I'd touch them up a bit!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1150699622026996582006-06-19T16:36:00.001+10:002006-06-19T16:47:02.030+10:00Money! Money! Money!Money - We talked about stewardship at church last Sunday morning.Here are some of the key verses, followed by a summary of points that I find helpful in budgeting...Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Phil. 4:6And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Phil. 4:therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1149203777356470022006-06-02T09:12:00.000+10:002006-06-05T23:42:05.866+10:00Yup, That's Gara / Garra / Gaarra our rooster of doom!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1148384046553133732006-05-23T21:32:00.000+10:002006-05-23T21:35:31.196+10:00I like this...O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d; Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around metherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1147684765745224392006-05-15T19:17:00.000+10:002006-05-17T17:13:43.410+10:00 This is a 'yabby' - grumpy frump!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1147343519402865562006-05-11T20:27:00.000+10:002006-05-11T20:40:26.746+10:00The Velveteen Rabbit The Velveteen Rabbit ORHOW TOYS BECOME REAL by Margery WilliamsIllustrations by William Nicholson HERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1146574122041169642006-05-02T22:46:00.000+10:002006-05-02T22:48:42.120+10:00Dad humour is the best!!A woman brought a very limp parrot into a veterinary clinic. As she lay her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, "I'm so sorry, Polly has passed away."The distressed owner wailed, "Are you sure? I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1145877879670164092006-04-24T21:08:00.001+10:002006-04-24T21:46:57.213+10:00What do you think?"One who is unable to live in a community, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is no part of the polis [city], and is therefore either a beast or a god." -Aristotle [unattributed] Aristotle ( 384–March 7 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. He wrote books on many subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1145782414348792232006-04-23T18:21:00.000+10:002006-04-23T18:53:35.563+10:00Guru's PartyYes! Guru's 21st Sat'y night!Yup! That's him!Tink tries out the comfy armchairs in the theatre.And, this is Tink and Guru-mum!Up close! that's him OK!Assorted party animals.The revheadclan stride purposefully to the Guru-do.Loungelizards: At the front: the lovely Whitney & Caity and up the back, Alex and KingKohltherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1145537369614380792006-04-20T22:48:00.000+10:002006-04-20T22:49:29.636+10:00My two chicks!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1145364559027237462006-04-18T22:30:00.000+10:002006-04-18T22:49:19.060+10:00EASTER 2006Helmut wanted a copy of this - it's what i wrote for our easter service....Easter 2006 There is a story of a poor peasant family who lived at the edge of the town. The oldest son grew up a wise lad. He faced his hardships philosophically. “You can never tell how things will turn out,” he used to say.One day is father came to him leading the cow, the only cow that they owned. “Son something GOOD therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1145359302358839632006-04-18T20:56:00.000+10:002006-04-18T21:21:45.053+10:00MakeoverHi all!Got bored so I thought I'd shuffle the furniture around and add a couple of interesting links.The arm's almost there. Got about 90% bendability back!Here's a couple of pictures of Helmut and Lord Elcore playing a vigorous game of kitchen bench plastic milk bottle top downball...Why are they playing this?Why am I posting this?Are there rules?All, good questions every one of them!therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1142244017595474582006-03-13T20:00:00.000+11:002006-03-13T21:15:07.380+11:00Gimme a break!Just having recovered from the trauma of my Mac recieving a 'fracture' -when I followed suit - - walked to lunch with Billy - feral forklift lies await on path- trips- falls- ouch...lots of pain ... but nothing looks loose - delightful lunch with aforesaid Billy at the manhattan cafe (aka the dr audio hang out)- "just drive myself to the doctor to check, ha ha ha! Probably nothing!"- " hmm, I'm therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1140503074223221862006-02-21T17:09:00.000+11:002006-02-21T17:24:34.250+11:00Mac Attack!Traumatised for the last two weeks. It's called Mac-shock. My gorgeous little G4powerbook in its nifty aluminium frame has taken a fall. It's in intensive care undergoing a full body transplant.At church two Sundays ago, I had it set up the front to show a powerpoint presentation. Had it all cabled up to the projector. The band was in the background practising. 'Soldier of Truth' was warbling therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1139907003280487502006-02-14T19:33:00.000+11:002006-02-14T19:50:03.360+11:00Michael Leunig's Controverial CartoonNoticed this article about Michael Leunig's cartoon in the news today. Leunig is a Melbourne 'institution' so it is intruiging to see his work caught up in an international story. Leaving aside the unfiar appropriation of his work; what do you think of the sentiment of the cartoon itself? is it fair? Is the Palestinian plight a sad irony of history/ or is the cartoon plain offensive in therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1139561552922319932006-02-10T19:48:00.000+11:002006-02-10T19:52:32.930+11:00Is there a God?There is an interesting post on DBoy's site on tthe exostence of god: Check it out!http://dboy777.blogspot.com/therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1139404109828234762006-02-08T23:48:00.000+11:002006-02-09T00:08:29.853+11:00Ok, so you don't think lost is a straightforward soapie, eh?Well i found this wonderful primer on how to write your own soapie! By Jennifer Stewart Write101.comI think LOST is right up there. what do yoy think/What other rules would you add to Jennifer's list?A Soapie is just like every other genre of writing - it has its conventions and key elements. A sonnet must have fourteen lines; a therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1139297738734608562006-02-07T18:23:00.000+11:002006-02-07T18:35:38.746+11:00Lost in Lost??Is it just me, or is 'Lost' the most sophisticated con ever perpetuated on the soapie market?It is just a soapie: there is no plot, nor resolution, each episode is manipulated to create unresolved tension which is then dispensed with in the following episode, which in turn leads nowhere.The character linkages are boardering on the ridiculously implausible, as are the implied religious and therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1139218078157113272006-02-06T20:05:00.001+11:002006-02-06T20:27:58.170+11:00 Poem of the Day There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when serves, Or lose our ventures. (Julius Caesar IV,iii,217)***********What do you think? is this right? is there such a tide? Are there Sliding Door scenarios? therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1139188772468680822006-02-06T12:16:00.000+11:002006-02-06T12:19:32.486+11:00 Poem of the Day The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fairAnd having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that, the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1138872815593100122006-02-02T20:23:00.000+11:002006-02-02T20:33:35.770+11:00 Favorite Narnia quote! Love this reminder:"Both the children were looking up into the Lion's face as he spoke these words. And all at once (they never knew exactly how it happened) the face seemed to be a sea of tossing gold in which they were floating, and such a sweetness and power rolled about them and over them and entered them that they felt they had never really been happy or wise or good, or even alive and awaketherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1138321473554763682006-01-27T11:10:00.000+11:002006-01-27T11:24:33.580+11:00I'm still here... the last week has been a bit crazy catching up on things.We've got a church leaders retreat thingy on this weekend too...Hey, there was a blog party on at tink's site...all for me.Check out the cake... According to Wikipedia this is what happened January the year of my birth...January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137961563490686282006-01-23T07:19:00.000+11:002006-01-23T07:26:03.503+11:00Check out Caity's holidayCaity (Revhead junior!) has just spend two weeks in Queensland ... this is her story .... Check out Caity's holidaytherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137811157943244372006-01-21T13:28:00.000+11:002006-01-21T13:39:17.966+11:00FRIDAY 21st January 2005Braced myself for the trip to the airport remembering the nightmare of 2005....Let me give you a flashback moment to this time last year.... FRIDAY 21st January 2005 Last day in L.A. today. Spent last night washing some clothes and cramming the 50 tonnes of lollies and books into my suitcases. Books weigh much too much!!We finished class by lunchtime, said our teary heart-wrenching farewells therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137701832719938332006-01-20T07:07:00.000+11:002006-01-20T07:17:12.740+11:00All of usHere's the gang at Fuller, including a beautifully photoshopped in Andrew who couldn't make it this year...therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137617319652995412006-01-19T07:10:00.000+11:002006-01-19T07:48:39.726+11:00Mission-shaped or Mission flavoredWell, we just finished for the year. My head is spinning with dates, deadlines and assignments! The block of time here is really the 'calm before the storm' - now comes the hard work! These two whiteboards are my cryptic reminder of all the work to 2008!!!The stream of study here is called 'Missional Leadership' - what does it mean to take a different approach to being church... Here's an therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137529405965951102006-01-18T07:10:00.000+11:002006-01-18T07:23:26.003+11:00Monday 16/1/06Golden Globe film awards last night – and when you are in L.A. a few miles away from Hollywood, well then the TV networks have a four-year-old-on-red-cordial seizure!I kept ABC on in the background last night to get a feel for the thing - they had a Red Carpet special – with a bubbly presenter interviewing all the stars as they arrived for the big night. Amazing how MUCH fabric the males wear therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137276577973558242006-01-16T09:01:00.000+11:002006-01-15T09:11:01.093+11:00Saturday 14/1/06THIS is Rubios. This is the place for good mexican food down here, about 5 minutes away from where we are staying!... and this, 'son of Nun', must abviously be a cantina where bounty hunters hang out...And this is the local theatre type place....therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137275692733089202006-01-15T14:01:00.000+11:002006-01-15T08:58:55.296+11:00THURSDAY 12th of JANUARY 2006 Can you imagine the pain of a neighbourhood, when a 16 year old young man is found dead in a dumpster – probably a victim of gang retribution. Or a two-year-old toddler, trapped in a closed car on a fierce summer’s day. This was part of the sad picture in the vast low-cost housing complex next to Christian City Church, north of LA just a few years ago. This development was so bad that cops would therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1137027648131275422006-01-12T11:29:00.000+11:002006-01-12T12:00:48.213+11:00A Tuesday excursion! 11/1/06We went on an excursion today on the L.A. Train system. About a 40 minute trip through LA central to MaCArthur Park – an inner western part of LA which had the reputation of the roughest, greatest homicide area of CA (Kinda’ like St Kilda or Footscray - squared) and spent the day with the Christian agency that was part of turning it around.Too often churches are ‘holy huddles’ in the safe middle therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1136909397811316242006-01-11T02:54:00.000+11:002006-01-11T03:09:57.886+11:00MONDAY 9th Jan 06First day of class. Interesting how when you meet up with a group of friends you haven’t seen for a year – you can pick up just where you left off!That’s Mark writing on the board ... and that’s Al, the other prof. We are in the ‘dungeon’ of the D.Min building – no windows, but good internet reception, so I can listen in on class and sneak out here too.... memories of passing notes at school! therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1136757085808907612006-01-09T08:25:00.001+11:002006-01-09T08:51:25.826+11:00SaturdayI just slept for 12.5 hours! No way! Only slack adolescents do that .... LOL!Spent the morning trying to get the stupid wireless system to work here at the guesthouse.PIC. I can see it, I’m connected but it doesn’t let me use it. ... ‘Found out later it’s new and still got bugs. Beautiful weather again. They have the BEST weather, sort of like permanent late summer or early autumn, hot but not therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1136753116177780932006-01-09T07:28:00.000+11:002006-01-09T07:45:16.343+11:00STILL FRIDAY MORNING – LA TIME (6/1/06)Tired as after four thousand hours of overly dried air and booming engine noise! I wondered whether US customs would select me for a special going over because I’ve kept my wispy greying middle eastern beard this trip – and I do have IRAQ as birthplace in my passport!Those guys at US customs in their black uniforms and ‘Dept of Homeland security’ NEVER smile. Don’t waste taxi driver clichés like:therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1136673266842995312006-01-07T14:35:00.000+11:002006-01-08T09:34:27.050+11:00FRIDAY MIDDAY (AUSSIE TIME) – QUASI-CHRISTIANS?Friday midday. Finally on board – got an aisle seat, which I think is the best option outside of an exit row seat, or of course a or first class seat!The couple across the aisle from me are a very respectable, very serious looking older couple, American by their accent and by her stereotypical ‘winged’ reading glasses. She is reading what looks to be a Christian version of the ‘Mars and Venus’ therevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1136458785596762122006-01-05T21:36:00.000+11:002006-01-05T22:02:37.936+11:00Last night at home!!My last evening at home. Tomorrow King Kohl and JasroTherus are driving me to Tulla! I leave at noon.Tonight, we three watche Hotel Rawanda. Based on a true story, it talks about the genocide in Rawanda in 1994 when almost a million people died in just 10 weeks. Can you picture that? The thing that made me fume again, i've seen this film before - was that the west stood by idly, recuing its owntherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20476003.post-1136297000502649542006-01-04T00:53:00.000+11:002006-01-04T01:16:55.343+11:00And a big thankyou to King KohlYes, I'm up and flying and it feels mighty fine! No I don't mean Flying Flying,I mean blogwise.Couldn't have done it without the help of the mighty king kohl,who showed me the marvels of photoposting and the like..For example i couldn't have done this two hours ago...Kohl when he was younger:And kohl the great speaker:and kohl the dandy!!the king riding into the dusky nighttherevheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802119009845317396noreply@blogger.com14