Hi everyone. I've just had back to back conferences. For most of last week Ali, myself and little Nathan were in the lovely spot of Collaroy Beach on the coast north of Sydney (piccy below). The Salvation Army have a lovely conference centre there at which our denomination chose to hold its ministers and wives conference. Very nice too. Lovely surroundings. En-suite 'hotel' rooms and HOT BREAKFASTS! Yeah!
This was the first time we've been 'out and about' in the denomination and we really enjoyed meeting some of our brothers and sisters from around the country. It wasn't all serious... in one activity we actually won a bag of goodies containing a bottle of wine, some chocolate, toiletries and a tiny red thong (!)
The theme was church planting and the thrust very simple and yet very challenging... keep hold of the gospel at the centre... be prepared to let go of the stuff round the edges... and train up your replacement as you go. Good stuff.
The other conference was on the weekend prior to the aforementioned. It was called MTS Challenge and our state coordinator of the Ministry Training Strategy, Mikey Lynch did his best to put people off 'full-time, paid ministry' in his talks. Our other speaker, Dave Thurstan, helped us understand some of the hard realities of ministry and more importantly how to deal with them helpfully, humbly and hopefully... memorably laying out a challenge to us to compose our own psalms - he shared a number that he had written and they were very instructive and helpful. Of course he preached from the ones we have in our Bibles.
So back here again, reunited as a family, in lovely Margate ...and all the kids are sick. Well... it was nice while it lasted.
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