Tent Crusade

These two flyers were designed for the same event, the first one by my friend, Daniel, the second by me. Another friend of mine said she thinks they appeal to different audiences - she said Dan's gives the impression that the event is for charismatic Christian adult professionals, whereas mine gives the impression it's more of a family event, with an emphasis on entertaining children. I deliberately simplified the language to make it appear more inclusive for people who are not from Christian backgrounds. I think it's hilarious we came up with such totally different creative designs.

Dan did his up using MS Word, while I did mine in MS Powerpoint!

Chrissy dinner at Jenny's house

Went to Jenny's house last night for a beautiful Christmas dinner with the Forerunner girls. I think it was the best night we have had together. There was just a real sense of peace, unity and warmth in the atmosphere and I felt really at ease, despite making the decision recently to make Without Walls my spiritual home. Phil and Jeanette, who head up Without Walls, are like spiritual parents for Forerunner and oversee the leadership team and there are lots of events that Without Walls runs, which are atended by Forerunner people, so i don't feel like it's a huge decision. It was more an acknowledgment that I feel that Without Walls is meeting my needs more and is the place i'd say is feeding me the most. I absolutely adore the people in Forerunner though. They will always be very special to me.

Here's a collage I made with the piccies from last night. There were 12 of us in total, which was a great number for dinner. The last piccy is of Elyse. I just reckon she has really kewl greeeennn eyes, hence the large piccy ;-) haha

Rivers of living water

Surprise!

On Thursday, I took young Marshall for a walk. In contrast to most days, I decided to take him a little further past the uni campus that's just near my house and down to the riverside. Just as we walked near the uni, a huge group of students poured out of a lecture theatre and headed towards us. I was quite intrigued seeing so many people all at once, so i paused for a brief moment. Marshall, on the other hand, appeared totally disinterested and instead, started to inspect someone's garden.

Just as the first few students made it to where we were, Marshall decided it was a great time to demonstrate his remarkable skill of emptying his bowels quicker than anyone I know. Within a few seconds, he had deposited four massive piles of poo in the middle of the footpath ... right in front of the students where they were about to walk. With all the recent notices around our area of the $2,000 fine for leaving souvenirs behind, I had no choice but to quickly pull a plastic bag out of my back pack and clear his gifts off the footpath ... nothing like the aroma of fresh, hot, moist GIGANTIC pieces of poo, not to mention the thrill of humbling myself to pick it up.... There were no rubbish bins in sight, so I had to carry it with me.

No sooner had we crossed the road carrying our delightfully transparent big bag of poo, a magpie decided to torment us with wild screeches and savage swooping. Because my 60kg boy was on the lead in one hand and my other hand was holding the poo bag, I was unable to pick up a stick to defend us, so I had no choice, but to start swinging the bag of poo, like a lasoo, around our heads. We power-walked as best as we could down the entire strip of the uni in this super hero fashion. If the excretory process hadn't caught the students' attention, my wonder woman action sure did! Fortunately, the magpie left us alone 10 minutes later. By that time, all the students had disappeared.

We finally made it to the river, where I gratefully threw the poo bag in the pet poo bin.

Gold Coast

This is the amazing house that six of my home group friends and I will be renting for one week in March next year when we go to the Gold Coast to attend Todd Bentley's Downpour Conference. With one married couple, we worked out that if we use the den as a room, we will all get our own bedrooms ;-) Kewl bananas. It works out to be $370 per person for the week, which is not bad for luxury accomodation.