The purpose dog

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This is my dog Jessemy, she’s being looked after Mum and Dad in Brisbane! Actually she’s Mums dog, but we all like to claim ownership.

Anyway, Mum put a “40 Days or purpose” badge on her, so now she’s the “purpose Dog”

Spinifex Dad

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This is me with my Dad in December 78′. Dad is an amazing Pastor and preacher of the word! He’s been doing it for nearly 30 years! Wow, if I can accomplish half the thing that he has in his ministry I will be a very satisfied man.

  • Worked as a missionary to the aboriginal people of central Australia, built many houses, ran a phenominally prosperous trucking company and saw one of Australias largest cattle stations compelely taberculosis and Brucolocis free by the time he finished in 1982.
  • Worked in Northern Queensland as the regional Education and Training officer for a very large area.
  • Moved the family to Brisbane in 1987 where he took up a post as a pastor and not long after as the senior pastor of Logan Uniting Church
  • Planted a church out of Logan Uniting at Carbrook in 1989, it became it’s own parish in 1993 and Dad moved on to be the Senior pastor there, it then became Calvary Family Church.
  • At Carbrook, Dad established a vision for a K to 12 school as well as Aged care facility and church facilities.
  • In 1996 Dad and Mum felt the call to leave the Uniting Church due to the Uniting Churches stance on sexuality, open relationships and the ordination of Gay clergy.
  • All of his leadership team left with him
  • All of his church congregation left with him
  • Calvary Family Church was established with the word of God as it’s foundation
  • Mum soon came on board to co-pastor the church with Dad
  • from 1996 – 2004 the church has grown from 250 on the role to over 900 on the role

And! I can only say that the best is yet to come. Dad has extraordinary gifts with an incredible capacity to build into, lead and mobilize people.

It’s going to be wonderful to see what else he will achieve in this lifetime.

Drink in moderation

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My Mum and Sister decided that they wanted to visit my apartment to check it out after we had lunch. Unbeknownst to me, my flatmates arrayed various beverages around my room of the alcoholic kind for my family to find.

Needless to say, as soon as we walked in, all I could say was “Look what they’ve done!”. peels of laughter could be heard from the footpath outside…

My innocence is still intact, my family saw straight through the ruse!

And what was all that alcohol doing in our apartment I hear you ask? One of my flatmates resigned from work the previous week and was given a swag of grog for his efforts!

Spinifex Mum

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This is a picture of me recently with My Mum. She is co-pastoring a church with my Dad in Brisbane and are doing an awesome job! They have just started 40 or so life groups in church and are starting to see amazing growth.

It’s amazing how relationship fuels growth. People are crying out to be loved and be part of a greater cause and purpose

Spinifex kid!

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Wow! This is me as a boy beside a road in the middle of Australia. I spent the first 6 years of my life there with the Australian Aborigines. You could say I was a spinifex kid and in many ways I still am!