Archive for July, 2007
Saturday, July 21st, 2007
The second meeting for the Brisbane Bloggers Meetup group is coming up, Wednesday August 1. I was at the first get-together, along with about ten others, including bloggers, web developers, designers, and their friends. It was a good opportunity to meet people face to face, find out what people are doing, share tips on niche development, search engine optimization and juggling paid work, blogging and having a life.
The gathering’s based around a meal at Jade Buddah Restaurant & Bar, Eagle Pier, Brisbane.
Tim Miller of Jethro Consultants, has a set of photographs from the first meetup at SpyJournal, including Mick from Micks World, Michael from Red Block, Peter from SiteMost, and Lena who works for Tim and contributes on his Tech Tips and Blog Tips sites.
If you’re thinking of coming along, you’ll need to sign up at Brisbane Bloggers Meetup so that Mick, the organizer, can book tables in plenty of time.
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
I’m currently in the middle of a year-long course on coaching, with Coachnet. See my previous post on the Coachnet process.
I’m making myself available as a coach in the following two areas:
Alternative worship - using multi-sensory approaches to learning, music and prayer
Blogging - developing niche, blogging patterns, search engine optimisation
Generational change - developing responses to generational change in environments including work, church, family, not-for-profit organisations.
Coaching can happen face to face (easiest if you’re living in the South East corner of Queensland), by telephone, by voice over internet protocol (e.g. Skype, GoogleTalk), and by instant messaging (e.g. Skype, GoogleTalk, MSNMessenger).
If there’s anything else you’d like to focus on in a coaching relationship, and you think I could help you, let me know.
Contact me via email (postkiwi at gmail.com), Skype (postkiwi), GoogleTalk (postkiwi at gmail.com) or use the phone: 0439 828 718.
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Forge Missional Training Network Queensland held the second half of its intensive on sustainable spirituality, discipleship, sustainability in a consumerist culture in Brisbane this last weekend.
Steve Said, on loan from Tear Fund in Melbourne, provided some helpful models for development of faith practices related to just lifestyle. He provocatively suggested that many approaches to prayer are more pagan than Christian, treating God as a source of goodies that can be manipulated through magic formulas (my words). He finished Friday with a session on the art of critical contextualization.
My sessions on Saturday focused on generational values and the ways in which we embed the gospel, connecting the Biblical narrative, the context we find ourselves in, and motifs. One of the interesting reflections was the way in which models of church reflect the generational values of those who start and promote them. We contrasted the early Baby Boomer large regional churches with the small alternative communities being started by Gen Xers.
One of the resources that got us talking was John Driver’s Gates to the Cross model, explored earlier here at Gospel Notes.
A highlight for each Forge gathering is the telling of stories from alternative approaches to church. We heard from Joshua Tree on the Sunshine Coast (Steve & Felicity Turner, Kelly Edington) and Pathway (Steve Drinkall). That’s Steve Drinkall on the left below, and Steve Turner on the right.
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