Posted on July 13, 2009 by christopbrooks
Mission Exposure finished on Friday. I spent the weekend recovering and spending time with Mehrin. (We didn’t get to spend much time alone during Mission Exposure.)
On Friday we went out to visit Tim and Jay and Tuscan and Kate (from Loam, the Seeds mob in Preston). They talked to us a bit about what was [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2009 by christopbrooks
Early this morning Sarah Scott-Webb (from our Youth & Schools team) led us through an examen for debrief/prayers.
Afterwards Andreana took the Mission Exposure punters up to visit St Mary’s House of Welcome in Fitzroy. I stayed back to cook lunch in Credo. (Chicken soup and vegetable soup.)
At Credo gathering Spriggsy inited us to think about [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by christopbrooks
We started this morning (Monday, day three of Mission Exposure) with some time to debrief and pray about what’s going through everyone’s heads. Alice was reflecting a bit on an encounter she had on Sunday night with an indigenous person in Credo, and on the differences between indigenous/colonist relationships in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
We [...]
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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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