I had to post this photo. I don’t really like putting piccies up here anymore of my little one showing her face so this one can be shown! I love this photo, she’s in the exact right spot, colours and tones are just right.
May 18th, 2006
I had to post this photo. I don’t really like putting piccies up here anymore of my little one showing her face so this one can be shown! I love this photo, she’s in the exact right spot, colours and tones are just right.
I had to post this photo. I don’t really like putting piccies up here anymore of my little one showing her face so this one can be shown! I love this photo, she’s in the exact right spot, colours and tones are just right.
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May 17th, 2006
I thought I would point out that I have a poll on the sidebar in reference to ‘Curried Missionary‘, the series that I’ve been posting this year. If it’s relevant to you I’d love it if you would participate.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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May 16th, 2006
I did a family update. My family all live up there in Papua New Guinea and are missionaries with New Tribes Mission. My brother and his wife (and my nephew) only had their crate of belongings arrive last week (they arrived in PNG at the end of December) and you can read about it here on their blog .
My parents (their blog is here) are working hard in their roles up there. Dad runs the Tribal Resource Centre (if you want to know more about that just ask and I’ll elaborate) and Mum works in the Finance office. It was hard having mother’s day without mum here but I know that she’s doing something very important in PNG.
Pic: My brother Johnathan and his wife Candy with my nephew Malachi
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May 16th, 2006
I somehow missed this link to the special scrapbooking albumn that a lovely lady in south Australia, Roz is putting together for Schapelle Corby. I mentioned it below but this link is for the pages of the actual albumn. Our two pages are numbers 8 and 9. Thank you Roz for your hard work, we appreciate it. Also, I hope you had a lovely wedding over the weekend.
I somehow missed this link to the special scrapbooking albumn that a lovely lady in south Australia, Roz is putting together for Schapelle Corby. I mentioned it below but this link is for the pages of the actual albumn. Our two pages are numbers 8 and 9. Thank you Roz for your hard work, we appreciate it. Also, I hope you had a lovely wedding over the weekend.
There’s also a lovely article for Mother’s Day about Schapelle and her Mum here.
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May 15th, 2006
I entered my first whiplash competition a few weeks ago and I’ve decided to enter this week as the theme is ‘yarn’. This is my entry:
It’s a green, purple and orange scarf but I think it could resemble something edible. Not sure what!
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May 13th, 2006
…people spoil the ending of something. Today we were walking around Armadale with my in-laws and my Father-in-law was wearing his Fremantle Dockers shirt. A bloke walked past and said something like ‘not the shirt you want to be wearing today mate’ indicating that the Dockers had lost their game. My Father-in-law loves his footy and was looking forward to watching the recorded game when he got home. His reply ‘yeah, thanks mate’. Poor fella, felt sorry for him.
…people spoil the ending of something. Today we were walking around Armadale with my in-laws and my Father-in-law was wearing his Fremantle Dockers shirt. A bloke walked past and said something like ‘not the shirt you want to be wearing today mate’ indicating that the Dockers had lost their game. My Father-in-law loves his footy and was looking forward to watching the recorded game when he got home. His reply ‘yeah, thanks mate’. Poor fella, felt sorry for him.
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May 12th, 2006
The theme for Illustration Friday this week is Angels and Devils. So, here’s this weeks illustration (I don’t think I’ve posted this before):
This is my ‘cross’ painting. I always wanted to do my interpretation of what happened the night Jesus died but I really wanted it to be very different to anything traditional. I know it’s a bit gruesome but so was what happened on the cross. Why does this fit the theme? Because at no other time in history were angels and devils stirred so much!
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May 12th, 2006
As some may know I’m a supporter of Schapelle Corby. She’s been in that prison now for about a year and a half and her lawyers are still trying to find a way to get her out of that awful situation.
There’s a timeline of events here as well as other information and a yahoo group here.
There are quite a few great people out there who are supporters of hers. There’s the Spirit of Schapelle forums, an amazing forum full of people from around the world. There’s afew active blogs too such as two in Canada called Hacia la Justicia, and Love To Schapelle and a couple of Aussie blogs called True Blue and Bring Her Home.
Roz in Adelaide has put together a scrapbook of photos sent to her for Schapelle, each page dedicated to a different contributing supporter which will be sent to Schapelle so she can see who’s out there.
Schapelle’s family keeps us informed with the official site called Free Schapelle and Schapelle.info is updated when there’s news.
You can still write to her or send a little parcel at:
Schapelle Corby C/- LPM Kerobokan Jl. Tangkuban Perahu Kerobokan, Denpasar 80117 Bali, INDONESIA
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May 12th, 2006
The PF theme this week is Masterpiece and as an artist, the first thing that comes to mind is….art! Of course, I don’t see ANY of my artwork as worthy of the title of Masterpiece but thought this photo was relevant to the theme:
This is me at uni in my second year. That painting is in the bin now but I was very much still learning a lot (and still am!).
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May 10th, 2006
I’m nearing the end of my posts for this series, just two or three more after this and I would have shared the whole booklet with you.
I’m nearing the end of my posts for this series, just two or three more after this and I would have shared the whole booklet with you.
This time I’m focussing on the age old prayer meeting. Do these even exist anymore? For the last two years I ran a youth prayer meeting specifically about missions in our home called YPFM (Youth Praying For Mission).
As much as it was SIM based we always prayed for any missionaries that we knew regardless of which missionary society they were with. Looking back I can honestly say that it was such a difficult job to get young people to come along and pray. One time we had 10 people there but on many occassions there were none. Why is this? Is it to do with the new generation, post-modern thinking or because of the busyness of life or is it to do with a lack of understanding or belief that prayer really does work? If you know, I’d love to hear from you!
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13
Pic: My Dad, Trevor Burns working in the Tribal Resource Centre with some local tribal Christians.
“Spiritual Encouragement
A once a month prayer meeting specifically for missionaries can be very encouraging to them. As a person living overseas or in an isolated or difficult situation it’s comforting to know that there are people at home keeping you in prayer regularly. Perhaps your church has several missionaries and so this would be one practical way of making sure that you are praying for them all regularly. Meeting together helps us to keep account with each other and is really helpful when you find it difficult to pray regulary on your own. Even meeting with one other person is a good way of keeping a promise to pray for a missionary.
These meetings need not be just for older people but for young adults too. Remember, missionaries have children and teenagers with requests as well.
It is important that at these prayer meetings there is some sort of system to ensure that you cover all the needs and praise points sent to you by your missionary. Prayer is both necessary and effective for a missionary to stay on the field.
James 5:16b “…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.â€
A wonderful book that gives many good ideas and hints on effective prayer meetings and personal prayer practice is ‘What Happens When Women Pray’ by Evelyn Christensen. Even though the title suggests this books is mainly for women, prayer is for everyone and this book is applicable to men, women and children alike.”
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