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Me and Nat rolling in the red dirt!
I think I must have been about 3 when this pic was taken by the side of the road in Central Australia.
New Years resolution 2007
“Do more, say less”
– Matthew Sweet, Jan 2007
Christmas 2006 – It’s a wrap!
Christmas was awesome this year.
I was feeling rather oblique by the end of it, my legs and arms and stomach jutting out in various contorted directions as I tried to get the uncomfortable mess occupying my insides into some sense of order.
In other words I stuffed myself stupid…
I felt a bit mentally challenged as I dragged my carcas off to bed last night. And even worse as I got up this morning, is there such a thing as Christmas hangover, even when you haven’t consumed any alcohol?
Wow, but it was awesome on many levels!
All the family together, and we went and hung out with the Sweet Grannies at the nursing home in the arvo. Funny thing is that my Grandad opened that same nursing home thirty five years ago!
They don’t really know who I am anymore, but we all had a lovely time chatting and bringing the grannies up to speed on how many grand and great grand children they now have, and also the fact that they also have children, and that they had them together… “yes grandma, thats your husband Jim…”
But it’s amazing how they can have moments of great clarity, the prayer that Grandad prayed as we linked hands at the end was amazing.
My Nephew Laughing
He’s such a cutie!!!
Generation Church – the vison and mission of the house!!!
Pastor Vanessa on Sunday morning reiterated the sound that our house has been making for many months!
She clearly verbalised our vision and mission statements so clearly that I was overcome with dumbness! Of course! Duh…
Vision: A house of healing, a house of hope, a house that brings heaven to earth.
Mission: Serving locally, impacting globally.
I was so excited to hear it. We are now two years old and allthough I have always carried the vision of the house in my heart, I now can carry it on my lips too!
With those who ask “what is the vision of Generation Church?”, I can give them a very clear answer in seconds rather than rambling on for five minutes.
Church video
Multi-Site tech
Well,
We have managed to traverse a potentially error prone and disasterous move to new offices with flying colours!!
Everything ran very smoothly with our server down less than an hour and a half.
The new studios are phenominal. As the central location for all our IT and multi-sites, it’s the perfect location for hosting a virtual office for multi-sites and pastors working from home.
The building we are in hosts the main fiber-optic link for the Gold Coast, servicing a data centre in our building and Bond University.
Cerum has provisioned a very fast open port onto the internet that has the capacity to easily service 4 or 5 branch offices and campuses across the Gold Coast.
VOIP is perfect for this kind of link, with low latency and high upstream speeds. We can potentially even host our own websites and streaming servers there, right from within our own offices.
I’m in the process of working with Faktortel and Dean Davis from Cerum to build our own IAX Server to host all our IP phones spread across all sites. Ah the wonders of open source software!
Over the next week, the PBX (phone server) will be built and tested with each of the 12 VOIP handests we currently have.
Initially we were going to host our phones on a Virtual PBX from Faktortel, but due to restrictions with NAT traversal and stun servers with our 6 Polycom i301 handsets, we needed to build our own VOIP server located on the same subnet as the phones.
Which means that we get our own PBX 3 months ahead of time!
The next few things to happen over the coming weeks:
- Terminal Server – Allows pastors and sites to access Excellerate externally
- VPN – binding all site networks to the server through encrypted tunnels.
Steve Irwin, dead
I can’t believe it.
Steve Irwin dead and so young, leaving his young family behind.
He was one of those larger than life characters who lived life with such passion and focus. It’s seems so surreal that someone who seems so strong and alive, has now moved on to the afterlife.
News.com.au article
Sydney Morning Herald article
I will miss his passion and zeal for the environment. I know that he will be greatly missed.
Muti-Campus Church
Well, we are about to embark on a new chapter at Generation Church.
Multi-Site church.
Tomorrow we plant our first service at Pacific Pines on the north side of the Gold Coast.
It’s exciting times as we see our church grow and expand to new levels. I would not have though we would reach this point after only 18 months of ministry as a team on the Gold Coast.
Every part of my life is being stretched right now and I’m loving it. How much more easy is it to be stretched whan you are doing something you love? It makes the journey so much easier.
And so the Generation Journey continues, faithfully and forcefully moving forward.
As I prayed while walking the streets of Helensvale doing a letterbox drop, I could only imagine salvation in those streets. We passed home after home filled with dreams and visions of unchurched people yet to be realised. They need to know the freedom and hope that God has to offer them through the church. My prayer is that our church, and every church in our area will touch their lives with power and see dynamic and transformational change in our city.