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
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
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Erin & Casper (Melbourne)
July 21, 2008
| July 30, 2008 3:30 pm | to | August 1, 2008 10:30 pm |
What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self sacrifice to nonviolent
peacemaking that armies devote to war?
ABOUT Erin and Casper Adson
Erin and Casper Adson are a young Australian couple who have had their lives turned upside down by the power of creative nonviolence. Early in 2008 they joined a Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to the West Bank in Israel-Palestine where they explored a Christian response to international conflict and the people who are affected by it on a daily basis.
Since they’ve returned to Australia they have been presenting an alternative narrative of the conflict and
building solidarity in Australia. Erin works in community development and Casper is a chemical engineer. They want to join other ‘ordinary radicals’ in exploring another way for this war-torn world.
ABOUT Christian Peacemaker Teams International
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Enlisting Christians who advocate a nonviolent alternative to war, CPT has placed violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarised areas in several countries at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT aspires to the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict
through the nonviolent power of God’s truth and love.
Initiated by Mennonites, Brethren and Quakers with broad ecumenical participation, CPT’s ministry of Biblically-based and spiritually-centred peacemaking emphasises creative public witness, nonviolent direct action and protection of human rights. CPT currently has teams in the Middle East
and South America. Website: www.cpt.org
Hear Erin and Casper Adson of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
The Program is yet to be finalised. We strongly recommend that you call the listed Contact person to confirm the latest times, locations and details.
Melbourne: 30 July - 1 August 2008
Wednesday 30 July, 3.30pm – Urban Seed
The Den, 116 Lt. Bourke Street Melbourne
Contact: Simon Moyle (03) 9650 4023
Friday 1 August, 6pm, – Friends Meeting House, Toorak
631 Orrong Road, Toorak
Contact: Dale Hess (03) 9592 5247
Ched Myers - DVD Resource & Reflections
July 17, 2008
Ched Myers spoke at Call2Discipleship08 for us in July. We have created a resource by filming those sessions. (For those who saw him at School of Discipleship in Canberra these are also the same 2 inputs on he led on Saturday about marks gospel)
What it is
Value Pack= 2 disc set containing DVD’s 1& 2 (see description below) $25 + $5ph
DVD 1= The call to discipleship in Mark’s gospel sessions 1 & 2 plus question time $15+$5ph
DVD 2= Unplugged with Ched - mp3 audio tracks of the 3 sessions above. $12 +$5ph
Go to idearipple.com to buy one now.
While we work out a pdf bug here at morepraxis….
What struck people about Ched’s & Elaine’s input over the various events they spoke at here in OZ?
Surrender08 - Following Fire
July 16, 2008
| July 18, 2008 | to | July 20, 2008 |
Fire can refine and transform, fire brings light and heat, fire represents the power of God’s spirit to make a real and lasting change - but fire can be dangerous to a comfortable way of life
Would you follow the Fire of the Spirit no matter where it leads?
Surrender08 - Belgrave Heights Convention Centre
Speakers - Archbishop Elias Chacour (Galillee), Jackie Pullinger (HK), Aunty Jean Phillips (Aus), Mick Duncan (NZ), Dave Andrews (Aus) and John Smith (Aus) with Andy Flannagan (UK worship leader at Greenbelt) leading our worship sessions.
(I thought someone would have put this up by now. I am on a panel here this weekend chatting about social justice, genY and generally causing trouble. )
Ched Myers in Melbourne
June 28, 2008
| July 9, 2008 |
Call to Discipleship - Ched Myers
binding, releasing, restoring: reflections on contemporary discipleship
A gathering to encourage inspire and equip Christians for socially engaged discipleship.
Ched has written and engaged with restorative justice, peace-making, biblical economics and socio-political nature of the good news. His most influential work being his commentary on Mark “Binding the Strong Man” Not to be missed!
9am-5pm @ CTM - 1 Morrison Close Parkville - 9340 8815
Buy the DVD resources from the day here at idearipple.com
(Heads up! The Online rego for call2discipleship will disappear tonight. (This will help with organising and feeding) So if you still haven’t registered and want to register during Tuesday 8th you will need to phone in. 9340 8815)
3 Sessions with Ched + Panels
- Money & Discipleship
- Justice & Discipleship
- Consumption & Discipleship
- Poverty & Discipleship
- Sustaining the Journey
BTW- he will also be at the ‘School of Discipleship’ in Canberra 10-13 July.
SPCA3 - NZ
June 24, 2008
| July 11, 2008 | to | July 13, 2008 |
3rd Annual South Pacific Christianity & Anarchism Conference-Christchurch, NZ
all the info is here http://anz.jesusradicals.com/conf08.html
Sorry guys, for the late posting of this one I thought I had done it ages ago.
As you know I wont be there this year, it clashed with School of Discipleship and we have a large mob going up to it. All the best for this years gathering I already feel like I miss out.
Rewind…
June 20, 2008
Great post over at shauninmann.com in regards to a passage from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five:
It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
CafePraxis how many lattes is too many?
May 28, 2008
Hi Guys
I have been asked about being on some panels and running cafepraxis at UNOH’s Surrender in July 18-20, 2008 at Belgrave Heights. (BTW- UNOH=urban neighbours of hope)
But I wonder how many events do we want to run the cafe at this year? Here is a possible list.
- Grassroots (sacred space, cafe & workshops/action) - April
- SYG (Urban Seed’s sacred space, cafe & biblestudy/chat) - June
- Surrender(cafe venue & action info, part of the panels), - July
- Praxis08 (so wee have good coffee at our gathering
) - Sept - maybe a venue at NCYC09???maybe not? (Cafe space and panels????) - Jan
Is this too many places. It feels like a lot. I want it to be a fun and different way to chat about justice and discipleship and not a pain for volunteers.
Other motivation is that profits go into our praxis08 gathering to help people afford it.
Ideas? Thoughts?
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