backyardmissionary

‘Kramer’ screws up badly

‘Kramer’ apologises
Excrement occurs.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses came around at 8.15am yesterday.
What the?
How many people want to see anyone at that time of day - let alone religious door knockers
I wanted to invite them in and and show them this…
Thank God for John Saffran!

Yesterday in the post I recieved my DVD copy of ‘Frisbee The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher’ and I watched it this morning instead of my normal time in the Bible.
Its both inspiring and tragic - a story of a man so gifted by God - so wounded and flawed - and of […]

Oh - we did…
Thanks to Art who tipped me off last night about a blog that is purely a Christian/Atheist dialogue and looks quite interesting.
Hopefuly I will get there and have a read shortly.

I have just updated this page on our website so follow the links from the home page if you’d like to know more of what’s involved in an internship in 2007.

If you’re interested then we’d love to talk with you!
You can do an internship in simple missional living, church planting, or missional leadership in an […]

Just amusing myself…

Ok… enough frivolity… back to work…

I was looking at the stats for Backyard Missionary today and checking out which posts have had the most hits. Here they are in order of priority:
1. Incarnational v Attractional Mission - a fairly polemic and feisty piece I wrote for a youth ministry seminar. Its sure to piss some people off, so if you […]

A big thanks to Phil who pointed me in the direction of Foldershare, a back up system that kicks butt and is way better than any DVD or external hard drive.
The basic idea is that you synch your computer with another computer and you are able to replicate files on your own hard drive on […]

Ok here are the summarised results from our Forge WA online survey after 100 respondents. Thanks to all who responded and helped us review where we sit.
I haven’t included any interpretation yet, but I would be interested to hear what others would see these results saying. Feel free to leave a comment.
Demographics:
• The largest group of […]

Daz Cronshaw of Forge Vic has just produced an excellent book that looks at different metaphors for mission here in Oz. It is entitled Credible Witness and is available thru UNOH.

In it Daz looks at mission as:
- spiritual companionship for the journey
- chaplaincy for the convicts
- shepherding for the settlers
- advocates for the marginalised
- servants […]

This came in today and I liked it:
You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female.
Here are some examples:
FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off, it takes a while […]

Our Upstream mob made the news yesterday.

Here is a copy of the article in the West Australian. In future I will need to remember that journos may quote me verbatim and adjust my words appropriately…
Click here to read the story.

It was great to hang out with John and family for the last few days. They are very hospitable folks without any airs and graces. I really like it that way! John is also one of my favourite missionaries - hard core and extreme in every way. We talked a lot about cricket, fighting and […]

For a while today I thought I was popular!
While at the Baptist Union meetings I checked my email and found one from an Aussie journo in London seeking info about two of my good friends who are missionaries in Malawi - John and Angie Wilmot.
I thought that was weird - why would they want to […]

No - its true…
I bought another one on ebay - the Sony machine I was hoping for (COD this time) and it is sensational!

I picked it up on Monday night when I got to Melbourne and have been setting it up. So far I reckon it was a great buy. So the saga […]

Over the 3 years we have been living in Brighton we have developed into a great team of people who work well together, recognise each others strengths and who ‘get the job done’.

So yesterday it was sad to finally farewell the Robins family, one of the ‘originals’, who are moving back towards the hills area […]

Thanks a heap to all who completed the Forge WA survey!
We now have 100 responses and can begin to draw some conclsions.

Herds is going to use this tomorrow night at our team meeting. I will be in Melbourne and will miss it…
I like it.

On Monday I am off to Melbourne for the week.
Monday-Wednesday I have meetings with the Baptist National Youth Crew at the Rydges hotel in Preston and then on Thursday I am off to the Rev’s place to hang out for a bit and join the crew at the Vic Forge Intensive on the weekend. […]

I am a keen watcher of history and love to learn from the heroes of the past.
I dunno whether Lonnie Frisbee is a hero or just an interesting human that God chose to use in unique ways.

Whatever the deal I bought the DVD as I am intrigued by the life he lived and its incongruities. […]