Upperroom - New Venue Search & Review
August 5, 2008
Ok Guys Last night I found out that the S-bar has sold. So a big thanks to the S-Bar owners and staff for being great hosts. Now of course, we will need to find a new home for the upperroom. So next month we will be in a different space. somewhere???
Assuming people want to keep going.
So this also creates a natural space to have review of the upper room project.
What is good,useful etc?
What needs work?
The vision=
The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be
- Space to rest/relax with your tribe
- Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
- Connect with heartbeats for living
There will be food, wine and friends plus
- a gallery space for photos and other art.
- activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
- conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)
HIROSHIMA DAY RALLY FOR PEACE AND A NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE
August 5, 2008
| August 9, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Saturday August 9 th
1pm
State Library
NO URANIUM MINING
NO WAR, NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS
More info about whats going on here http://www.nukefreeaus.org/
VCC - Making Connections Fiji Tour
August 5, 2008
| September 27, 2008 1:00 pm | to | October 11, 2008 1:00 pm |
A fourteen day tour with ten people to observe, learn participate, question, make the connections. Be part of something bigger. Some places still available. Applications closing soon.
For a copy of the brochure click here.
Background:
Christian World Service, the international aid and development agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia gives financial support to “Just Peace” programs in Fiji focusing on the pursuit of social justice through economic justice, faith and society, peace, social empowerment and youth training.
Expectations:
To consider coming, you need to be 18 or over.
You need to be relatively fit and in good health, and able to carry your own
For the application form contact:
Jeff Wild
jwild@vcc.org.au
Micah Challenge - Offering Letters
August 4, 2008
An Offering of Letters
Micah Challenge is calling Christians all over Australia to pick up their pens to fight poverty. The “Offering of Letters” campaign asks churches and other Christian groups to prayerfully write a letter to the Prime Minister calling for compassion, generosity and justice for 1.2 billion people who live in extreme poverty. The letters will be delivered to Mr Rudd during the Micah Challenge National Gathering, Voices for Justice, in October.
In 2006, more than 1300 letters were sent to local MPs and they had a big impact. This year, we are encouraging Christians to write to the Prime Minister urging him to turn his words of support for the Millennium Development Goals into tangible action. It should take about 15 minutes to construct a hand-written letter letting him know that Christians care about poverty and injustice.
“The Offering of Letters can have a powerful and positive impact”, said Micah Challenge National Coordinator, Amanda Jackson. “We want every church, home group, theological college and school in Australia to be involved”.
The Chair of the Micah Challenge Steering Committee, Rev Paul Perini, is also urging Christians to make an Offering of Letters. “We can help save lives and offer hope to thousands of families if we take the time to write letters. I think God would want us to act”, he said.
The Offering of Letters kit for 2008 can be downloaded now at www.micahchallenge.org.au . It includes all the information you need to write a letter to the Prime Minister, as well as a sample letter and responsive prayer you can use with your group. You can also download a PowerPoint presentation that can be utilised to explain the campaign.
“Just as we offer our money and our time to God, we can also offer our voices on behalf of the voiceless” said Amanda Jackson. “This is part of our worship, and gives us the opportunity to ‘do justice and love kindness’ and take up the challenge of Micah 6:8”.
Upperroom - Jason and his Guitar
August 1, 2008
| August 4, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be
- Space to rest/relax with your tribe
- Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
- Connect with heartbeats for living
There will be food, wine and friends plus
- a gallery space for photos and other art.
- activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
- conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)
Please bring your friends - all are welcome
This month we will be listening and thinking about the ideas within Jason Mann’s songs. Songs of justice, faith, hope and meaning. Jas will play some sets and have some table discussion material on lyrics and themes in his art. Some differnt this m onth - bring ya friends. Age
Join the celebrations
July 31, 2008
After campaigning with others on refugee and asylum seeker issues since 2001, TEAR, UCA, RAC, GetUp and all the rest can join the celebrations.
(Ben’s take from the tear network below)
The Immigration Minister has proposed changes to make detention of aslyum-seekers a last resort and put in place clear boundaries so that it cannot be indefinite and unreviewable.
Asylum seekers coming by boat to one of the places that the previous Government excised from Australia’s migration zone will now also have access to assistance and review of their cases – rights the former
policy stripped them of.
We are very supportive of the Government’s proposed changes. We hope and pray that we will never again see people (including many children) locked up for years, with all the associated mental and physical harm,
while they seek protection in Australia.
A new, humane policy
The Government has decided to take a risk-based approach to deciding whether an asylum seeker should be detained or not. If a person poses no danger to the community, they will be allowed to remain in the
community until their status is determined.
You can read the Minister for Immigration’s entire speech here
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/speeches/2008/ce080729.htm
The Minister outlines the values that will inform the new policy as well as some of the practical details.
Children will not be detained in an immigration detention centre. People who arrive by boat at excised places, which include Christmas Island and Ashmore Reef, will be detained soley for health, identity and security checks. People who arrive by boat at excised places will now have access to legal assistance and an independent review of unfavourable decisions. Only people who pose a risk to the community or who have repeatedly refused to comply with their visa conditions will be detained. Once in detention, a detainee’s case will be reviewed every three months to ensure that further detention is justified.
Thank the Immigration Minister
Send an email now
Senator.Evans@aph.gov.au
thanking the Immigration Minister for these changes. Ask him to
make these policy changes law so that no future Government can return
to detaining children, or keeping people in detention indefinitely and
without review.
True Evangelical Faith
July 30, 2008
“True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant.
It clothes the naked.
It feeds the hungry.
It comforts the sorrowful.
It shelters the destitute.
It serves those that harm it.
It binds up that which is wounded.
It has become all things to all people.”
- Menno Simons
GetUp-Climatetorch Relay
July 29, 2008
To solve the climate crisis, we will need a movement unprecedented in Australia’s history. To mobilise this movement, GetUp has invented a new device to respond to the climate crisis. You can hold it in one hand. It combines solar power, a wind-turbine, and…. a lemon.
It’s our climate torch, designed exclusively for GetUp by the creators of the Sydney Olympic torch, and with your help we’ll take it to a hundred towns, cities and suburbs across Australia - before arriving in Canberra, where thousands of GetUp members will present it directly to Parliament. Click below to get a first glimpse of what it looks like, and to nominate your town to host it.
No government will ever soar higher than its citizens demand - and most will sink as low as we allow. Now more than ever we must demand this government soars above political spin and vested interests - high enough to provide the climate leadership we need over these coming months when Australia’s response to climate change will be locked in.
We have a vision for this torch relay. As it travels around Australia, GetUp members will collect tens of thousands of submissions to the government’s climate policy consultation: an unprecedented flood of public opinion. Our leaders need to hear from us - from your town, city and suburb - because industry lobbyists will win this fight if we don’t.
After nominating your area you can volunteer to run the torch, or help organise the torch leg in your town. We can only bring the torch to your town if it will be supported on the ground, so register your help today!
To a renewable future,
The GetUp! team
Thriving Youth Australia Event- Clay Roberts
July 28, 2008
| October 1, 2008 | ||
| 8:30 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Creating a Value Focussed Learning Environment –
Wellbeing and the Future of Learning
with Clay Roberts
“As a trainer, I am constantly looking for ways to support trainees in changing their behavior. People leave trainings energized and with good intentions, but find the follow-through with young people hard to achieve. People know what to do; they just have a hard time doing it. Our job as trainers is to narrow that “knowing/doing” gap”
Clay Roberts, Search Institute senior trainer, April 2008
Clay Roberts from Search Institute is visiting Australia in October. This is your chance to hear one of Search Institute’s most experienced trainers.
Where: Knox City Council offices
511 Burwood Highway, Wantirna South
When: 1st October, 2008
8.30am – 5.00pm
Cost: Individual $195-
Students / health card holders $95-
Discounted group bookings available
Places for this special event are limited. Book now with
Steve Goldsmith
at Thriving Youth Australia,
0404 370 907, or
thrivingyouth@optusnet.com.au.
Clay Roberts is a senior trainer with Vision Training Associates and the founder of Roberts & Associates, a U.S. educational consulting firm. He has been featured on NBC’s Today Show as a prevention expert, and his programs have been highlighted on Frontline and in Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report and has been a keynote presenter at over 200 international, national, regional, state, and local community events. He is a co-author of the Search Institute book Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed. He holds a master’s degree in health education from the University of Oregon.
Search Institute Survey
July 27, 2008
Some of us in Australia want to add our voice to this - please help out and give it a go - Age
Dear Friends of Search Institute:
Search Institute’s Center for Spiritual Development is conducting a world-wide survey on the spiritual development of youth between the ages of 12 and 25. We’re looking for youth in the United States who can participate in this survey, (along with youth from seven other countries). All youth who complete the survey will be entered in a drawing for the chance to win either a $25.00 or $50.00 Target gift card.
This new survey explores how young people think about and experience life. It asks questions pertaining to how they find meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in their life, how they think about their place in their family, community, and the world. We hope to include a wide range of young people in this survey, including those who do not consider themselves to be spiritual or religious.
If you are a parent of one or more young people in this age group, we would be delighted to have them participate in this study. Feel free to invite other parents you know to include their children. And if you are a young adult, ages 18 to 25, we would be pleased to have you participate as well.
To learn more about the survey and to volunteer your child/children (or yourself), please click on the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lGdyMwHBcwZjwfkEEUABfQ_3d_3d
If you have any questions about the survey or this email, please contact Angela Hackel at angelah@search-institute.org.
Thank you for your support, and have a great day.
Search Institute
Search Institute
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413 USA
Toll-free (within the U.S.): 1-800-888-7828
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