Posted in anglicanism, church, ministry news on May 22nd, 2008
That’s me, having just received my letter of acceptance to become an ‘ordinand’ in the Sydney diocese. That means that after I finish college, assuming I can find a job somewhere in the diocese, I’ll be ordained as a deacon in the Anglican church. Considering the diocese stretches from the Hawkesbury River in the north [...]
Posted in ministry news on Jan 15th, 2008
Live blogging (kinda) at KYLC (Katoomba Youth Leadership Conference), which is Monday to Friday this week. The aim is to train young church leaders, particularly youth group leaders, in reading the Bible and thinking biblically. I’m leading a small group, doing Strand 1, teaching the delegates how to read and understand a part of the [...]
Posted in ministry news on May 22nd, 2006
The second week in May was the official college mission week, an annual flight to the four corners. My team was split between the Springwood parish and the Blackheath parish. Six of the team, including me, headed up to Blackheath to spend a week having cups of tea with women named Jean and Judith and [...]
Posted in ministry news on Oct 25th, 2005
It was a few days ago now, last Saturday, in fact, that Sally and I had our final interviews for Moore college. It was a lot less intense than I had anticipated. It seems that they’re quite keen on making sure it’s what’s best for you (and your spouse), than whether you’re good enough for [...]
Posted in ministry news on Aug 19th, 2005
Last year, in my first year of MTS, I probably wouldn’t have said I was enjoying most of the ministry I was doing. This was partly because I wasn’t - I was struggling to get to know everyone, adjust to life in a new church, adjust to a massive change in lifestyle, from working a [...]
Posted in ministry news on Aug 13th, 2005
The process has begun.In order to apply to college, there’s a few things to be done. The first is an interview with a random faculty member to make sure no one is wasting anyone else’s time. We met with Archie Poulos, who it was good to catch up with, and he took us through a [...]
Posted in ministry news on Aug 5th, 2005
I got back home a few hours ago from what turned out to be a good morning. After arriving a little later than I had hoped to, things worked out really well. I was conscious of the fact that the passage from James can very easily misunderstood, so I feel I may have overdone the [...]
Posted in ministry news on Aug 4th, 2005
Tomorrow, Friday, I’m giving a talk at the school I taught at for a couple of years before I started MTS. It’s Christian Community High School in Regents Park and I had a ball there teaching high school kids and learning lots myself.The talk is on James 2, that famous passage about faith and deeds:14What [...]
