All Things in Common

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 [...]

World Vision Prayer Day

On Tuesday and Wednesday I was out at Belgrave, helping Mark Pierson set up for World Vision Australia’s staff prayer day. Mark was curating some interactive installations around the grounds of Belgrave Heights Convention Centre, based on the theme of ‘Lingering with Intent’. Here are some photos:

Urban Seed at Wipeout

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

Trentham

I put this together using photos and audio from a trip to Trentham a few weeks ago:

It’s not very interesting to just watch. It’s more for background ambience. Haven’t used it publicly yet.

The Longest Night

Cheryl Lawrie, Blythe Toll (our new Youth and Schools team recruit) and some others are curating a Winter Solstice space in the UCA basement carpark on Saturday night:

Church of All Nations

This morning I went to the Church of All Nations, because the Indigenous Hospitality House residents were taking part in the church service. They told the kids the story about Tiddalik, then Willie Picket from Narana shared a bit of his story, and then the IHH residents led us in some alt worship based around Ezekiel’s vision of the [...]

Pentecost at Footscray

Marcus was doing a Pentecost service with the young folk at Footscray Baptist on Sunday. I’d agreed to help him with it, because I thought we were doing it the following weekend (we had a few changes of plans, and were both too busy to communicate properly). Because it was a week earlier than I [...]

Pentecost gathering tomorrow night!

I’ve been involved in putting together an alt-worship gathering for Pentecost, which will begin some time tomorrow evening, at Footscray Baptist Church, in Paisley Street. I don’t know how much of it I’ll actually be at, because I’ve got some young people from Canterbury Baptist visiting in the city the same night. (Me and Marcus [...]

Sweating blood, Footscray

Marcus has sent me these photos of my animations, which he had playing in the window of Footscray Baptist Church over Easter:
 

Good Friday at CSBC

Used my Gethsemane animations at CSBC last night. Len did a short sermon about difficult decisions – decisions that make you sweat. Decisions where you have to choose between hurting someone else or absorbing pain within yourself, as Christ chose at Gethsemane (Luke 22). After the sermon I invited people to think of a decision [...]