Posted on November 30, 2009 by christopbrooks
Yesterday morning I did a Bible walk with some folks from Mountview Uniting Church. One of the things they asked me was to tell them the story of someone I know from the street who’s had their life transformed. I said that I know a lot of people who’ve been able to make changes in [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2009 by christopbrooks
Tuesday is Melbourne Cup Day. The Melbourne Cup is known as ‘the race that stops a nation’. Even though it’s a public holiday in Melbourne Credo is still going to be open. We basically don’t want the TAB to be the only place in town for people to go and hang out.
I’ve been thinking about what [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2009 by christopbrooks
So last weekend I was down at Phillip Island for TEAR Australia’s Victoria Gathering. This year’s theme was ‘All Things in Common’. I was involved in running the ‘Hospitality and Inclusion’ workshop stream, and I was also setting up some installation art in the main auditorium and the ‘Praying in Hope’ space.
When we went down [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2009 by christopbrooks
Last night Tim and I visited Wipeout, which is a youth group at St Hilary’s in Kew, for year 7 to 9.
Tim talked a bit with the kids about homelessness.
Later on we had some time for everyone to interact with a number of stations we’d set up around the space.
Station 1: Home
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by christopbrooks
This morning (Sunday) I took Mike and Rachel C to St Nicholas’ Antiochian Orthodox Church. (The others went to St Michael’s and CSBC.) I really like going to St Nicholas’. Mike was saying that it’s like stepping into 2000 years of history. He said that everything seemed so unfamiliar, but it was also clear that [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2009 by christopbrooks
Saw this yesterday and thought it was funny:
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Posted on May 13, 2009 by christopbrooks
Anyone know anything about this?
I think the same billboard used to advertise a strip-joint.
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Posted on May 3, 2009 by christopbrooks
Posted on April 9, 2009 by christopbrooks
At Pain in the Arts today I was thinking about ideas for the TEAR conference. I started asking the others, ‘If you had a billboard, what would you put on it?’ I ended up writing their responses on the tower in my sketch below:
The stuff written at the bottom are the responses I got to [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2009 by christopbrooks
