Greedos Ghristmass

Today was Credo Christmas. Enough said. Here's pics:


Because it was the last day we got a picture of all the resis together:

And one of the Street and Hospitality Team (minus Shobie, because she and Luffy had to go early):

Andreana and Dave's blogs

Just thought I should mention two blogs that I haven't previously linked to:

Andreana has been sharing an apartment with Spriggsy and I since halfway through the year and has recently cut her hair short.

Dave moved down down to Melbourne from Sydney this year, and has been hanging around the Collins Street Baptist Church/Urban Seed mob quite a bit, and well as the Seeds folk in Footscray. He is a community development geek. And he has posted some dot points about 'The global economic meltdown of mega-doom'.

'Urgency & Sustenance'

We were looking at this article on Tuesday afternoon, as part of working out how we make decisions as a household about when we should let people (generally people who have been sleeping rough) come and stay with us. It's an article Dave Fagg (from the Seeds mob in Bendigo) wrote about the tension between urgency and sustenance in mission:

As an 18 year old, I helped to organise a national conference on poverty, for Year 12 students. The CEO of an organisation that served people on the street gave a firebrand address on the need for young adults who would burn themselves out in service to the poor. I thought it was a great message for the high-achieving audience for whom ‘service to the poor’ would be squeezed around careers. But the conference organisers gave a corrective speech the next day, explicitly rejecting the CEO’s message, and emphasising that doing the little things is what matters, doing what you are able to. Which for those listening meant serving the poor in the context of a career which would give them status and wealth. Although I said nothing, I realised that I disagreed with this corrective. The state of the world requires urgency, a desperate plunge into the pain of the world and of its people.

Read the full article here.

Dirty mo'

Tonight we went out for dinner with Andy, for his last night with us. I gave my self a dirty mo' for the special occasion. (For Movember last year Andy had a pretty ridiculous mo'.)

(Don't worry it's gone now.)

Easter, Footscray, Mission Exposure...

I haven't blogged for ages because too much has been going on. Easter. Via Crucis. House sitting in Footscray. Mission Exposure week. Earth Hour. Working on art for Pentecost.
Here are pictures:

Me and Dave and Sarah (she's from the Bendigo mob) are going to Hope Street in Sydney on Saturday. We'll be there till Thursday.
And Andy's decided to move out.