Oh Great!!
Another post announcing something without actually containing any kind of content or insightful thoughts on God and His manifest presence and glory working in the lives of we His people here on planet earth!
Yep, just wanted to point out that I just updated the BIG curriculum site with a new promo video… I am trying right now to upload it to youtube, but the gremlins are active…
So check out the new 9:12 long video that goes into more detail exactly what BIG is!!!
- Dave
So Young and So Gadgeted
From New York Times
EVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?
Domain Sale Closes
The auction is over (from here ‘Domain Sale’).
Congrats to:
Andy Kirk
childrensministryblog.com $100
Karl Bastian
childrensministrypodcast.com $10
Thanks guys, my parents will appreciate the funds!
(I will be in touch to transfer the domains)
Brian’s Blog
So my Senior Pastor Brian Houston has started a blog. Yay!
Although without RSS feed and no real home page… here is the link to his latest post.
It’s great to see him writing some thoughts down like this!
Contrary to popular belief
So I think I got a little excited and may have not been clear in my previous posts re: the Apple Store opening.
I didn’t actually sleep out overnight, but did go to the opening (5pm) the following day, the queues were huge, so came back later that night with Mike ‘Voltage‘ Vogel.
Here is MIke who now has almost completed his transformation into an uber-nerd… just like me 
Apple Store update
So I drove into the city before heading home tonight as people had started queuing for the opening of the Sydney Apple Store from 8:15am this morning. I got there about 9pm… there are about 20 people camping out for the opening of the new store!
I mean, there’s not even a new product coming out, just a store to sell stuff in. Which isn’t to say I am not heading in tomorrow at 5pm for the official opening… but camp out over night!!
Front of store… lot’s of glass, and apparently second largest in world after London.
Now the iPhone comes out here on July 11, so Apple really has got twice the mileage out of this launch. A bunch of pres for the opening, and then what’s sure to be bunch of press for the iPhone!
Start of the queue, first five have iPhones… (apparently there are 25,000 on the Optus Network already)
More Queue.
SO I reckoned there might be a few thousand here by tomorrow 5pm… and I will be one of them!
What’s Up With Mum and Dad
In 2001 my Dad began his first journey to India that would set in motion the journey towards establishing the Children’s Home in Bhachau…
On January 26, 2001, a large earthquake, registering 7.9 on the Richter Scale, devastated the area of Gujarat, northwest India. Five year old Rukshana emerged from the rubble an orphan. Her mother had been killed a week before in an electrical accident; her father was crushed in the rubble of their house. A photo of Rukshana, with a bandage over one eye, featured in the March edition of World Vision’s Impact magazine last year. Her image haunted many New Zealanders, among them Steve Wakerley of Christchurch… [Read On]
It has been a massive journey for my parents… as their three boys (me being one of them), left for parts uncharted (to Australia), they both have found that better late than never is the theme of the second half of their lives!
When I was growing up I remember conversations/discussion/prayers about Bali, which I imagined an exotic paradise filled with wild natives (any one who has grown up hearing about missionaries will know exactly what I mean). In some parallel universe it seemed I could have grown up a missionary kid, instead of playing left wing in my local Southbridge Rugby team in country New Zealand.
Now I may be completely off course and remember things through the filter of memory but Bali could have been an opportunity that never eventuated for whatever reason for us.
Now that their life has taken them to this incredibly challenging, frustrating, totally out-of-depth, but eternally significant experience I am in awe at their tenacity and faithfulness to the call of God in their lives.
They are making steady progress toward the finishing of a fantastic facility to eventually be used for::
- An orphanage for local children
- A free medical facility for those who can’t afford any kind of health-care
- A vocational training centre.
The people that will benefit from this ministry will be the poorest of the poor - children and adults who haven’t the means to bring up their children, eg. widows, orphans and the disabled.
So anyway, check out the site at: bhachau.org for more info.
As you may know I am holding a domain auction with the (however small or large) proceeds going directly to them, have look here.
I’m proud of you Mum and Dad!
Hillsong Capetown
So the latest Hillsong Church started meeting today in Capetown South Africa!
They are meeting in the Cape Town International Convention Centre. And have had five services on their first Sunday!! The auditorium sits 620 people so this is a MASSIVE start for the church!
Service times | Sunday 9am, 11am, 4pm and 6pm
*PLUS EXTRA ONE-HOUR SERVICE @ 8pm*
The kids team over there already has gotten the curriculum we are doing right now, they have the same tee-shirts we have in Australia, and are running programs for every service over the first Sunday!
I’m not even sure who is running the whole kids programs yet but it is very exciting to see the church establish itself over in Capetown!
God is good!
Nerd Alert
Next Thursday 19 June - Me, George St Sydney, 5pm… Apple store opening!
So I am visiting a leader in the city at about 4pm maybe then I can totally make it a work meeting!!!!!
He he…
Man I am super nerd, king of all nerds… I am about to participate in a line just to visit a store with no intention to buy anything… sigh.
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This website was founded by David Wakerley. The words on this site are more than just hyperbole -- they are a philosophy. To view the Kingdom of God here on earth as anything less than a matchless opportunity is tragic.
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