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Into Training Next Kangaroo Ground
Sixty adults enrolled for a term of Saturday training days in mission-shaped church and new monastic expressions. The course is hosted by Hoppers Crossing Uniting Church, Victoria. I led two sessions on their first Saturday .The Baptist Union invited sixteen ministers in cutting edge mission situations to a retreat at...
Posted at 16:17pm on 3rd March 2015
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Raymond Island
Raymond Island. Brent and I drive five hours through Gippsland. People think it's a poor region. We feel anticipation, some deep connection. Is it a God thing?Life's many meetings fade from memory, yet I still recall the debate five years ago in Melbourne with Gippsland's much loved bishop John...
Posted at 20:26pm on 26th February 2015
Three Days Of Festival
Fifty spiritual directors came. Further professionalisation or discernment of innate qualities? We explored such issues from the perspective of the Celtic soul friend.The general public came in the afternoon. The beautiful Wellspring Centre at Ashburton, Melbourne sponsored three days of talks, workshops, art and harp-accompanied prayer times,...
Posted at 12:40pm on 20th February 2015
Three Sets Of Leaders
The Acts of the Apostles tells how Paul checked out the foundations of his work with one set of leaders - the original apostles in Jerusalem, and blazed fresh trails with a new set of leaders - prophets and apostles in Antioch. Brent and I spent the morning with staff...Posted at 21:27pm on 16th February 2015
Igniting The Flame Down Under
I spent a day with Explorer Bruce Challenor at Lara talking through the Igniting the Flame online Foundation Course on our Way of Life which he will oversee here. He is adapting the course and 'Celtic Spirituality in an Australian Landscape' will become the course text book. As...Posted at 14:47pm on 12th February 2015
Walking With Disciples In The Hill Country
Jesus had his big meetings in Galilee's lowlands. When he mentored disciples he often went to the hill country. I have been walking with disciples in the hill country beyond Adelaide, topped by Lofty Mount, and residing at Flagstaffe Heights. It has been a privilege to have quality...Posted at 14:52pm on 8th February 2015
Wrestlers Church
They meet in the Adelaide house of Brad and Stephanie Bessell, two long-time CA&H Voyagers. Two families make up thirteen people. A boyfriend, a guitarist and me make it sixteen. The afternoon and evening consist of five things: worship songs, charismatic prayer, Holy Communion presided over by someone in the...Posted at 00:34am on 3rd February 2015
New Writers And Australian Book Launches
Writers on several continents are emerging among Community of Aidan and Hilda members. Emily Williams has written a story of Celtic fiction. She also gives talks in her native Texas. This week she emailed: ‘One day I noticed a First Nation man sitting close to the front. My talk was...Posted at 12:23pm on 29th January 2015
Australia Pilgrimage Begins
'Come and walk among us' said the Australians last year. I precede four months of 'walkabout' with a stop in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown. I visit its stalls and temple, then go to K L's city forest and Visitors' Tower. In its prayer room, to which all are welcome, a...Posted at 21:40pm on 23rd January 2015
Primates Back Cowshed Revolution * Whitehouse Invitation And More
Two years my book 'The Cowshed Revolution' set out a framework of moral and social values without which the ' free market' will destroy us. Now the Archbishops of York and Canterbury have taken up this cause in their new book on Solid Rock. This, too, sets out set the...Posted at 08:30am on 18th January 2015
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