Archive for November, 2004

My Icon

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Today at our final Forge session Stu asked us to draw an icon that depicted where we saw ourselves at in regard to the dreams and ethos of Forge.
This is mine…

Initially I drew a face with two eyes both looking in opposite directions. One is looking back the other looking forward. I believe we [...]

Deep Breath…

Monday, November 29th, 2004

Still running!

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Its amazng how tired you can get when you are simply running a conference and not even  doing a lot of speaking.
Darryl Gardiner, our kiwi guest and a fantastic high energy communicator arrived on Saturday night and spoke at our open night, preached twice on Sunday AM, spoke at Forge twice [...]

Psycho Fortnight in Full Swing

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

Its all go.
We started our Forge intensive today – a great day with Hirschy doing his thing on missional DNA, Harry Wykman telling his story, a round table discussion on pioneering leadership and Darryl Gardiner sharing his story in the evening.
pink panther the free download Tomorrow we do it all over again…
Might be a [...]

And While We're On It…

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

I was just down at Bob Janes getting a tyre fitted to the beast and killed the time by reading Readers Digest. It sounds pretty lame, but they have some great articles in there!!
The one I liked referred to a study done in England where people were asked what they would add to the list [...]

A Lesson Learnt

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Garth is a pretty regular reader here and today while I was reading his blog I came across this autobiographical account of what he learnt in his own venture into planting a missional community.
Its a story about the community that was and what may have brought it undone.
I’d say read the whole lot, but here [...]

Psycho Fortnight

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

The next two weeks look like being pretty frenetic.
With a Forge intensive this weekend, a trip to Melbourne for and my final (yes F-I-N-A-L) days of teaching for my life the year it will be busy.
I’ve been taking it easier the last few days to compensate because I can see I’ll be going hard come [...]

A Raging Kiwi and The Death of Outrage

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

Tonight we watched a DVD made during ‘Surrender’, the UNOH gig in Melbourne earlier this year.
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The DVD was of Kiwi, Mick Duncan letting rip on the whole idea of living passionately. Very inspiring – even on DVD 4 months later!
One of his statements was  ‘I lament the [...]

Thanks Phil!

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

We used this with our team tonight.
I think it went well, but when you’re running it its always hard to experience it in the same way.
I liked the flow of it and adapted it to suit our setting.

Whoosh!…

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

Its the sound a 4WD tyre makes when you jam the side wall on a stick… That is what I discovered today.

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Fortunately we were only 2 kms down our local track when it happened as I quickly discovered that my rachet socket was not going to budge the wheel [...]

Ouch…

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

I am sitting here watching the Panel where they are interviewing that guy who cut his own arm off after a rock climbing accident.
Not a fun story!
But now I know what to do if I am ever stuck in the middle of nowhere with my arm stuck under a rock.