October 31, 2008
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The Upper Room Project each month (6-8:30pm) this month Nov 10 to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.
We hope the upper room will be
There will be food, wine and friends plus
Please bring your friends - all are welcome
This month we will be thinking about the environment and global issues around climate change. We will have the info, resources and and the Inconvenient Truth playing.
Want to do something like sign petition on this stuff well that’s cause… http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow/8
Cya there.
October 31, 2008
US Election Special feature clip.
Thought I would post this from everclear
Daz has some thought about it here
http://alternativehymnal.digitalorthodoxy.com/?p=284
October 31, 2008
Treasury have just crunched the numbers and declared that action on climate change is affordable.
We have a very real chance of achieving the bold action necessary to get us one step closer to saving our climate. But we’re not there yet. You can tip the balance - help get us over the line by making our biggest petition ever:
www.getup.org.au/campaign/WereUpForIt
Our sources in Canberra have just told us the Prime Minister is on the edge of a decision - but still under immense pressure from polluting industries. We know he’ll decide on Australia’s carbon reduction targets in less than four weeks.
It’s what we’ve been asking for since we came together to build this GetUp community. But without you, the Government will never know that we’re up for it. Tell them:
Today’s response to Treasury’s revelation will determine what the Government does. Imagine if 100,000 Australians respond emphatically: ‘we’re up for climate action’.
Today he’ll read the numbers. Tomorrow he’ll listen to your voice. Then he’ll make his decision. With enough pressure, the Prime Minister may just make history.
We could never have come this far without you - and we can’t stop pushing now.
The GetUp team
PS - This really is the crucial time to tell the Prime Minister that you’re up for strong carbon reduction targets. And now the Treasury numbers are in, he has no excuse not to take bold action. Please sign the petition now to get us over the line to our biggest petition ever.
October 29, 2008
This is a question that is being heard from NCYC delegates as their pick their submersion activities. And has found its way back to me. Mainly because I am close and easy to reach but also because about four years ago I floated the idea of a day of action and service demonstrating the good news.
The question comes in a few forms …. I am scared of being arrested, yelled at, looked at…. I don’t know enough to be interviewed about what I think, I don’t know enough about what I am interested in……
The fact that you are worried is good. (Smart people count the costs.)
The realisation that you don’t know enough about the cause you support or are interested in is good. (looook haarder Simba)
The truth is that which you fear is an illusion.
What the question and fear shows about us is important. We fear the unknown. We fear engaging politically because of the costs. We sing about risking the way of Jesus, taking the back roads, A God of justice, etc but our fear can stop us. We fear the power of others and we fear that we are going to be revealed as not who we say we are. What great realisations and challenges to our faith we are having already from Converge NCYC09 and it hasn’t even begun!!!
I say to you Fear Not.
Fear not because the unknown you fear is an illusion. In fact the reality is that most political action/stunts are peaceful, creative, fun and a cool story in hindsight.
Fear not because many of the activities are not political actions but service focused.
Fear not because we are with you. The organisers of the actions and services are happy for you to direct people/media to them with talk at a deeper level.
Fear not because it is new to you but not to the organisers. Some even get to do meaningful stuff like this for a living.
Fear not because people who know a lot about the issues will be running electives on them.
Fear not because reality of the service and actions we are engaging in will not have arrestable components.
Fear not because the realisation that you have power/influence to worry a security guard a sweatshop business or the government forces because you care deeply about people/an issue is liberating.
Fear not because speaking truth to power, standing up for people’s rights to a full life is a prophetic place of closeness with our God.
Fear not clap* clap* clap* for I am with you says the Lord (just wanted to get that song stuck in your head)
Fear not because your fear this is the reason we need to do this.
After NCYC09 when a person asks you if you would like to help clean up a creek with the local greenies, join an action to make poverty history or the like- you will have at least one more reference point. Your fear will be different, maybe gone; maybe a fear for the people involved in the issue will outweigh your personal fears. For certain it will feel different. This experience joins with all our other small steps that free us to engage our faith to make a better world.
Converge is all about thinking, acting and reflecting on the Good News. The themes of NCYC for years have been about risking the way of Jesus of personal and social transformation. Remember themes like Agents of Change, Now is the Time, Shaking the foundations, songs like crossroads- ‘takin the back roads’.. Well this year is no different just the location has moved to Melbourne which has good spaces to demonstrate this Goodnews.
So please don’t let fear stop you, join us and maybe bring even more of your friends.
Cya there maybe grab a coffee with me to chat further.
Age
Adrian Greenwood
Discipleship Educator - Young Adults
UCA - Vicmania
Part of the Submersion Team
October 28, 2008
October 27, 2008
“the popular and domesticated Jesus… has become little more than a chrome-plated hood ornament on the guzzling Hummer of Western civilisation…”
Brian McClaren, Everything Must Change
October 24, 2008
Comment? Thoughts? Reflections?
October 24, 2008
In 2000, 189 governments made the historic commitment to halve extreme poverty by 2015. We are halfway to that deadline, but 50,000 people still die every day because of poverty.
Join Missy Higgins, Annie Lennox, Scarlett Johansson, Kristin Davis, John Butler and many other Activists and celebrities in a global call for action against poverty.
Check out the free download of the fantastic new song by the Black-Eyed Peas lead singer will.i.am and watch the video clip.
Prime Minister Rudd and 90 other world leaders are addressing the United Nations this week on the progress of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
We must demand our leaders keep their promises on millennium development goals.
We can be the generation that ends poverty.
October 24, 2008
Hi Guys, I am having some chats about this program/idea and Vic/Tas next week. Any comments,thoughts or interest off the bat? Age
Are you feeling the need for ‘time out’?
A change of direction…
Space to breathe…
Have you been challenged to get serious about your faith? To make a difference… Be an agent of change…
The Big Year Out is a new adventure in living and serving for Christian young adults aged 18 to 30 years. It’s a year-long experience that you can take on part-time or full time. The Big Year Out includes
The Big Year Out is a part-time program. Along with the Discipleship Intensive and cross-cultural trip, each week from March you participate in the Community day and one day of mission service. That leaves the rest of your week free for part-time work, study, whatever.
http://thebigyearout.com/
Download a postcard here: bigyearout_postcard_web.pdf
October 23, 2008
Hi guys. Mike set up googleanalytics a week ago so now we can watch dots grow! (plus all the other features)
So here is the picture. See if you appear.
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