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For some reason this year our biggest Sundays have been Mothers Day and Fathers Day. I would have thought that of all Sundays, these would be the ones where families stay at home and do family stuff. Maybe they've clicked onto the idea that they get free stuff at church, I dunno. So our Life Groups were bursting at the seams. One crazy cool thing that came up on Sunday is that all these kids

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It turns out that Amy has been waiting for someone to give her old phone to. Well, she's in luck, I need a phone. Mine went to sleep and never woke up again.It's an 027, so I let yo'll know my new number. So Im back up and running again this Sunday!One day when I'm feeling financial, I'll get a 021 cheapie so those addicted to free weekends can still get me.Something else, there are quite a

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When the stick that has the indicator and lights switches fall off, you could be forgiven for thinking you are watching some dumb action comedy where everything falls off the car but it still drives, and then they save the day, and then the two main characters kiss at the end. But is wasn't funny.And there was no kissing.Yea, I need a new car. We prayed at Life Group last night, and Steve prayed

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We had a girly event at the weekend. There were heaps of options for activities to do in the afternoon, and then a catered dinner in the evening.I chose to go to the "pamper" afternoon. I was a bit disappointed cos it was really more an information session. Even though I'm not that girly I didn't actually learn much, it was either logical stuff or something I've heard somewhere already. For

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Hi.I was attracted to the features of "beta.blog", or more like sucked in.So nievly, I signed up.Big mistake.I'm sure that once they've got it all organised, it will be worth it, but right now the options are extremely limited.I can't edit HTML and actually publish!!!SO, apologies for the poor appearance of my blog at the mo.It will be more exciting. We have the technology. Actually we don't.

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I like Sunday lunch.I was thinking on Sunday that I can't remember many Sundays growing up when we didn't have people over, or go to someone elses place for lunch.It's a tradition that is kinda cool. In a church that is biggish, the reality is that conversation is usually small talk, and you don't get the chance to get to really know people that well, it really requires effort.Thank goodness for

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Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible? A. Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation. Q. What kind of motor vehicles are in the Bible? A. God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden in a Fury. David's Triumph was heard throughout the land. Also, probably a Honda, because the apostles were all in

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I've wanted to play this game ever since I heard the Student Lifers talk about it after their conference years ago... and finally we did it!On Saturday we had a leaders day for the Salt Shakers team. We had a great day, ate heaps of yummy food, spun some yarns. But the highlight would have been the game. We broke into 3 teams of 3 and set out nocking on doors with a paper clip.My team (the

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last time on "Where is Silvia"MISTRESS: And to think that we may never see her again!MISS JANE: Oh, please don't say that Mother...And now, the conclusion of "Where is Silvia"...MISTRESS: (Sobbing into her hankerchief) Only yesterday she had her favourite dinner and seem to be so happy. Miss Jane also wipes her eyes with her handkerchief.MISTRESS: How I wish

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No one will debate that it is our responsibility to share the 'gospel' with our unbelieving friends, family, neighbor's and colleagues. But most of us find this difficult, if not seemingly impossible.Some will say that we don't need to actually say anything, our actions will speak for themselves. And yes, our actions and presence in those places can make a change, but there is a whole other post

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Not becasue I have anything news worthy, but because I can.Each time I do a big tidy of the children's church resources I find new old stuff. This time in the filing cabnit I found a folder with "Plays and Dialogues", by P.H.Jones, including "Jonny Goes to Bed", "Doctor Jonny Quack" and "Jonny Reads the News". Jonny appears to be very busy. Pulished in 1959. Yep, typed. An extract from "Where

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Yea, a lot has rolled passed since I last sat down to write about it.I went to Kids Reach confrence a couple of months ago. Good times. Stayed at the Flying Hedgehog in Hamilton, which was ok except the smell of really really fresh paint, and a wake up at 2 in the morning by drunken teenagers who were accidentally given our key!It was a good time for networking. I met some other children's

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Kids Rock Camp was the most amazing experience I've ever had with a group of kids.We had 33 kids total over the weekend from Elim, Apo and ET, between 5 and 10 years old.I was blown away at the group dynamics. All day Saturday the teams really were teams. When they sat down to make their team banner, litterally every kid was involved. Usually there are atleast one or two on the fringes, or

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Last weekend we went up to Christchurch for a children's ministry conference called 'unlimited'. We took up 4 other leaders, and for most of them it was the first kids conference the've ever been to. It wasn't a "skills" conference, where once again we learn how to do object lessons, learn new games, how to use music, how to make puppets, and some really great craft ideas. The emphasis was on

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Kate's in town, (!!!!) which traditionally means I get a hair cut. Every time we've met up in the past year shes done my hair. This time however, I worked myself up for a real change. Not that its change enough for many people to notice... i'm kinda glad about that! But it's fun having change... and quite scary...I needed to remember that I am not my hair. I mean, I loved my long hair, maybe

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In a culture where Martha dominates, it's important to create space for Mary. Jesus sure likes it when we do!Yesterday I called in sick, vacumed the house (and cleaned up the cat poo), then sat down with abosolutly no agenda but to spend time chilling with God. I've tried doing this may times before, but Martha usually gets the better of me.At first it felt wierd, this empty feeling, like when

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I used to think KJFiveTwo was just another sell out, but actually...Someone on Life mentioned a song he's got about Nepolian Dynimite, that was enough to get me onto the website. You can listen to it at his site. Just flick though the songs at the top right of the page. The song "Thank You" is really beautiful. Have a listen!

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reasons why I love my church:They massivley support kids ministry!!!! Bring it on!We are getting more and more creative with worship (excellent Smithers)We have awesome older people that just love the young ones in the conregation, and can put up with the loud music... These people are seriously amazing, I have been personally encouraged by many of them, and I know a lot of other young people

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My blog has been a little neglected recently, so I've been playin with it today. Check out some of the new links.I've been thinking this emergant chruch thing. Yea the term 'emergent' has become a bit mainstream... which is a bit of a contridiction, but anyway...Thinking about it is scaring me. I would find it a lot easier to not think about it.The more I read, discuss and think about the

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This is the first ever entery to be typed on my new laptop! I'm so excited, huge thanks to Aaron for hooking it up and putting up with all my complaining.... even though he didn't let me throw the old machine out the window...I got a hug from Aria today, and she said my name, but still not when im around! So gutted. I'm gonna have her on about that when shes older!I had this revelation last

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This is from a crossword that my kids are doing this Sunday. It reads so funny i had to blog it...God told Jonah to go to 1 accross.Instead he got on a 6 accross.and headed for 4 down.He was running away from 7 accross.God caused a great 5 down to come.His sailors threw him into the 3 down.He was swallowed by a great 2 down.Jonah was inside the animal for 8 accross days and nights.

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You Are 70% "Average American"You are average because you donate to charity.You are not average since you've known your best friend for less than ten years.How "Average American" Are You?

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You Passed 8th Grade ScienceCongratulations, you got 8/8 correct!Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?

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OK. One of the books I read over summer is Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell. Rob is the pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan.I tried to write a review, but there is just too many thoughts that I couldn't articulate in a way that will do the book justice. But I will tell you how it has influenced my thinking.I see things really black and white. In the past if I hear someone talk and I agree

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Well actually I've been back a while, but I've been a little pre-occupied with stuff.I had an awesome holiday in Nelson with my family and the Pierces, who are practically family anyway. Good times.We did a walk to the Anchorage in the Tasman National Park, about 3 hours, then kayaked back down the beautiful Tasmin coast. Absolutely stunning scenery. The water was glassy, it was

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Kids Church Sunday morning we did part one of Christmas Unwrapped, an Oasis program. It was so cool. I know we're doing a good program when the kids are totally absorbed in whats happening. We voted the number one kids church song. I was supprised, I thought they would pick Superhero or Never Give Up, (both off Hillsong Kids), but they chose a song called JESUS. I have never heard them sing

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and I ended up in bed at 1:30am. It all started with the decision to sort out all the plastic containers, they're every where, all missmatched and everything.Then I decided to move the glasses and mugs into another cupboard to make them more accessable, which left the cleaning supplies out in the cold.So I then moved the trays to where the chopping boards reside, and put the cleaning supplies in

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..at least when it's working. I turned on my computer just before and after 5 min it decided it would restart again! I just don't get it! Anyways, I've worked out that I can post on my blog by email. Cool eh. Thant means that if I ever get to use the churches new toy that can use broadband anywhere (yea right, like i'll ever use it!) then i can post by email and not use heaps of... what ever

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I had this idea the other day. One of the Edge leaders is a DJ, and is keen to do some stuff for kids. I was thinking we could use him when we do our big kids church events next year. I was driving along and i got this picture of a puppet doing DJing, like, he was wearing headphones, had his own wee decks and everything! I think we can work with that idea!

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Dude I am so flippen glad I got the chance to go up to LifeWay at the weekend.For those who arn't in the know, LifeWay is a Bible College an hour north of Auckland, in a beautiful little town called Snells Beach. It's a little different to most Bible Colleges because the courses pretty much involve your entire life for the time you are there.In 2002 I did R18, a youth leadership course, but it's

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I caught Joey climbing up the curtain in the lounge this morning. He got almost all the way up, like he could have touched the ceiling. He was quite hypo this morning. His moods swing a lot.nyway, enough about cats, I'm heading up to Life Way tomorrow for Marching Orders! I'm kinda really excited. It's always good to catch up with people that I haven't seen all year, and meet the new intake. I

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Introducing Joey...Joey spots a fly... stalking the fly...will he pounce?a few mintutes later...aparently attacking isn't nearly as cool as preparing to attack.what about Suzy's old coller?mmmATTACK!lookin a little stunned there joe?

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I walked into Manna and I didn't have to say a word, Emily knew why I was there...I've been waiting all year for this CD!It's really good as I anticipated. Some aspects of it are a bit more kiddy, stuff that kids will be able to relate to well, but in parts it would be quite hard for kids to realistically sing. And some of it's definatly more rocky, seems to be evolving away from the typical

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His names Joe, and he's very cute and cuddly...But before you get too excited I'd better let you know he's a cat.I adopted Joe from the S.P.C.A on Friday. He's two years old, smokey grey, white paws and belly and chin. He flicks his tail like a dog, and he's very playful. When I let him outside I can guarantee that he's gonna go straight for the birds. He's been eyeing the up for a while now, and

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15. ok, I learned on Saturday that you should not swim in the far lane at high tide. Esp when the waves are as massive as they were. Great surf, but not great swimming. Along with cold waves spilling over the wall, I was attacked by brown sea foam. The joys and hardships of swimming next to the sea.

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11. Don't wear goggles, because then you'll see how yuck the bottom of the pool is12. Do wear goggles, so you can see the pretty light reflections in the water13. Don't wear goggles, because you'll get attractive goggle rings around your eyes14. Do wear goggles, so that you can see the wall before you hit it

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Today is a very sad day indeed.If you don't know why then read the entry I wrote yesterday.I got one last hug from her. And it was a good one. She didn't protest in true torty style, she was just still. I think she knew something was up. She tried to jump back in her carry box... something she has always hated with vengeance.She put up a fight so they had to sedate her, so I didn't get to be

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Some people don't think you're as special as you really are. But they don't know you like I do!I was 7 or 8, can't remember, but I chose you! Mum and Dad wondered why I chose the Torty, the runt of the litter. But you were different. You were special!I came home one evening to the news that you had arrived. A scared little kitten, you hid in the closet. I was so happy!I chose the name Suzy.

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I don't exactly have the time to be mucking around at the mo, but i've hardly touched my blog in ages... so you may notice a few changes. I started at 10:50, intending to spend about 10 min on it... it's now 12:50...It's kinda fun when you get into it, and the 'dots' scheme that i had was kinda boring, and there are way too many cool blogs to compete with out there. I think ill get a glass of

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Wear goggles unless you want to see fog all day. Avoid the centre of the pool, especially near the far end (You could play a scavenger hunt down there, find: 1 hair, 2 sticky plasters, 3 Bobby pins, 4 airwigs, 5 boogers...) Don't do back stroke when shearing a lane if swimming in a straight line doesn't come to you naturally... Go early in the morning to avoid the school kids Go early

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I'm so stoked! I got up early this morning and went for my first swim this season. St Clair Salt water pool opened at the weekend, butI chose to avoid it during the weekend cos I anticipated heaps of kids & youthies splashing about, and lying around in the sun.I've got a lot of work to do on my swimming. I don't know what is wrong with my breathing, but my thoat seems to close up halfway down

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It's been really exciting to see the flavour and DNA of the Apostolic Church on a national and international level. I absolutely love the church I go to here in Duneidn. I'm totally on board with the vision of our leadership and I'm committed to it. But to be able to identify with that on another level has been really good. Our national leaders are awesome. I can see that they are all God

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As for kids ministry in the Apostolic Church... well, there is a lot of room for growth. The Church in Hamilton has got some good stuff going, and I'm sure they do in other places too. I didn't catch up with many other Kids leaders, apart from the Nelson crew and the pastors wife from Rolleston. We're an "Apostolic" Church, so expect "Apostolic" stuff happen in kids ministry... planting new

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Saul had no way of knowing what was coming his way when he set out with his servant to find his fathers donkeys. He had no idea that on his mission he would end up having dinner with Samual, and somehow get anointed as king of Israel.The furtherest thing from Davids imagination would be that a prophet would come to his house, and have him called in from looking after his fathers sheep, to anoint

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I was just reading 1 Samual 4, where the Philistines and the Israelites were in battle. The Israeslites were loosing misribly, so they decided to take the ark of the covanant with them into the battle field. My NIV study notes say that they would have no doubt remembered the presence of the ark at privious victories thoughout their history, so they would have assumed that it would work again.But

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Wow, the one week I'm away and I get 6 comments! Some very interesting thoughts.Vitality is the Apostolic Movements national youth conference. I went to it in Hamilton following the National Leadership conference. Both were really good. At Vitality, the main speaker Russel Evans, decided that 'Apos sounds too soft, so aparently we're now the 'Stolics'. (Please note: the word is not "Stoics".

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Ok, so I never anticipated it being like this. For others maybe, but not for me. I always thought that when I finally got into it, once a week would be enough. To do what it takes for me to not feel convicted about it. But I never expected that God would put oppertunities infront of me to share the gospel so often! I met up with Marian at the link at the university this morning. She went first,

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I hope no one has missed me too much in the blogging world. I'm sure my adoring fan(s) have been eagerly anticipating my next post. So here it is. This post is dedicated to you, whoever you are. Wow, God has been doing so much amazing stuff in my life. Painful yes, but so deeply changing. I've experienced His joy, known His grace and peace. When I think about it all I get a sense of Gods great

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Kids Rock totally went off!Last Saturday we had about 80? kids turn up for the prayer and worship event to the century... well at least the first one like it that I've ever seen.It kicked off with the KWD team doing a dance (at 2 hours notice), we had worship, prayer stations, prizes, a ministry time, and it rocked. The kids were totally into it, I've never seen kids so into something where it's

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Ahh spring. I love it. I've been for a run each day of spring so far... that would be two times... I love the warm fresh air. This time of year we're still subject to the possibility of snow, you know when lambing begins and then theres a cold snap and half of them die. But this year round a total fire ban is in place. Nuts. I hope this means good things for summer!.

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The media and even the staff email chain is well informing me that tomorrow (1 September) is National R.A.K Day. Thats Random Acts of Kindness Day, where everyone is encouraged to do, well, a random act of kindness. Naturally, for you information I've found the Wikipedia definition for Random Acts of Kindness. For more info on the official day, cneck out the official website!

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Red Bull. Starburst chews. mostly overcast & chilly.Tiard.Prayer room excellent, heard people saying they wish it could be there for longer.Kids Church went well in there today. We sent them into the room in twos and some by themselves. There was so much anticipation about it. And then in there we had good times. Kids are kids. Sone take it more seriously then others, but I really enjoyed

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... if you can call a cafe a friend.*sigh*. Azucena is closing it's doors today.But it's not like you may think. Buisness was good, they were actually breaking even which is a big deal. The word about Hot Chocolate Fishes was spreading like wild fire... actually probably more like a controlled burn off, but the word was getting out. But unfortunatly one of the people involved, understandably not

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Well here i am. Sitting at my computer on a brilliantly sunny Sautruday afternoon with a reheated bacon buttie from the farmers market and a can of V black. The prayer room is just amazing. Putting it together has been very exciting, although i'm glad that im not rosterd on til late in the peice. I imagine that i will have to battle with "i could have done this, opps i forgot that...", but by

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I'm so excited about this weekend... we've got the 48 hour prayer thing happening. Only 7 Slots yet to be filled in and we're sorted!I can't wait to start setting up, but before I do that I gotta sort out stuff for LINK and the Glow Party and Kids Rock...just a quick blog today before i settle down at my computer, ((LifeFM)) blasting through the speakers, flicking emails right left and centre and

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It's been a week and one day since i last wrote a post. My Blog is feeling quite the stranger at the moment.All my lovely loyal readers will be pleased to know that my desk is now tidy. I have infact moved all the junk that layerd the surface to my notice board or filed it in the bin (sorry, no offence Christian Blind Mission), washed two icecream bowls, 7 cups and 2 spoons, thrown out 3 apple

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Yesterday we trialed a sign in desk for kids church in the foyer before church. We had 18 kids turn up to the program, but only 10 of them had arrived before the end of the first song, and two were visiting kids, which means that almost half of our families turn up at least 5 minutes late to church. So it didn't really cut down on the time we spend in Kids Church handing out name tags, but it

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*sigh*. I don't know if anyone has actually tried to look at my blog in the last 3 days, but if you did, sorry, you wouldn't have seen much. I have no idea what happened, half of my template just dissapeared, so i had to get a new one and put most of my links back on it and publish half of my posts again. Blogger support didn't do much, all i got was an automated message but i managed to fix

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Check out Planetshakers Kids program, Planet Kids.The games on the site are pretty cool, and I love all the characters.I got lots of cool ideas from it, like giving each child a book that they can write in what they learn each Sunday, and journal what God is speaking to them about, and write the memory verses etc.Also they have a PlantKids sign in table where they hand out name tags for kids and

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I'm so excited about this! I asked Julian if there is any resources for kids to get them using the black book. I really want to get kids equipped with it, train them up so they can carry one in their school bag. They can use it to explain to their mates at school what Christianity is all about. Hey, they could even share it during news time!! Well why not?So anyway, the answer was no, there's

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I went to an evangelism thing at the weekend with Julian Batchelor speaking. It was so totally challenging. He exposed a a few little lies about evangelism that has crept into the church by changing the truth just a tiny bit, but enough to be convincing, and enough to actually stop us from evangelising. Quite scary.But when you realise what is the truth about evangelism and what is not, it's easy

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I figured there's no time like now to make the most of the silicon band trend, before they're so not cool anymore!They are such a great idea, and it may be worth the effort, depending on how much theY sell for.Oh oh, I found out that there are glow in the dark bands! Wicked. They would rock as a fundraising thing for the Glow in the Dark Party, as well as promoting it.They are great because they

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I'm so excited about this. We're planning on having a 48 hour (weekend long) prayer room here at church from the 26-38 August. Wahoo! Anyone is welcome to come in and check it our, or fill in an hour slot. We're kicking it off with a worship time on the Friday night, and I am keen as beans to get kids involved in it as much as possible. Our kids have so been getting into worship recently, and

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I came across this today and got a little side tracked. It's Yeti Sports. You'll find that you need to sign up to play on the offical site, or you can play with out signing up here.These games are cute and crazy, the Yeti seems to like throwing and catapuolting penguins and flamingos. But he surfs and snowborads. Nice.Right, back to planning Sunday...

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I went down to Waihola on Saturday to help out with Shoreline's kids camp for the day. It was so cool to get to know a different bunch of kids and some other kids leaders. Yea, I did a bit of clowning, just for 10 minutes though. All day at approxomitly 30 min intervals a light would go on in a kids head and they would say to me "are you the clown?". Funny thing is that it was the older kids who

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My flatmate who is studying autism at uni wrote a list of why Suzy my cat must be autisitc. i picked out some of my favourites for you:Suzy is autistic because: She lashes out because she doesn't have the communication skills to tell us what she wants She lacks transference-she knows you can come in the cat door but is yet to work out you can also go out the cat door! She will only eat

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Is anyone not addicted to this game? Each day they flip over the front page of the news paper to revel the puzzle of the day. Personally I'm quite excited about it... but I think it may just be my competitive side manifesting...We spent a sleepy Sunday afternoon recently with 7 of the 9 or so people in the room doing nothing but Sukoku. How very social this great game is.Don't know what Sudoku is

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You MUST try our new drink at Azucena. It's called a Chocolate Fish: Hot Choc with hot frothed Strawbry milk. And just incase you need convincing, it's served with Spratz on the side to compare, it tastes just the same!btw, here's what Wikipedia has to say about Chocolate Fish. I dear someone to add to it.

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The OHP wasn't at it's best yesteday, so someone turned off the lights so that we could see the words better. Interesting the effect that had on the kids. I could still see what they were all doing enough, but when the lights are dim for some reason it makes it easier to let go and worship God. Even more of the kids each week are meeting with God during these times, and they're starting to

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Get Smart Starts today. very exciting! I'm totally looking forward to what God's got planned.We had a very exciting Glow in the Dark Party meeting last night. We never get the same people turning up, but we had 4 new faces from 2 different chruches. It's always great to get new people linked in. We have 2 venues confirmed and the possibility of another one. The idea it to have a live feed with

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If you like Gonzo then play this game...its at http://muppets.go.com/games/muppets-flyinggonzo.htmla good laugh.

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Check this out...At first I wasn't sure if it was for real. Heard about them on Life FM. Random eh!

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by Roger Fieldsfrom www.coldwatercafe.com1. Do as many programs as possible. Start with Sunday School, Awana, children’s choirs, Christmas programs, Easter programs, VBS, summer camp, and day care. Then do whatever is working in some other church. Do every program that everyone expects. That will guarantee your children’s ministry will eventually collapse under its own weight with you at the

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I was up in Christchurch for the weekend with Tish and Liz to catch up with Christine cos she’s heading to Aussie real soon. Good times. Bought a new hoodie so more like extra good times.Anyways we trotted along to St Christopher’s in the morning. It's always nice going back to an Anglican Church from time to time. The dude that was preaching made a real good point about people that fall away.

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I saw this on Karens blog. try it...Here is an interesting one for you......Open a new Word document and type:= rand (200,99)then click on "enter"Wait for three seconds and look again...

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Ahh. Theres nothing like the sound of rain on the roof. Although i do feel kinda bad for the people I just dropped off in Mollywood. They're attempting to hitch to Invercargil and its impossible from town. Life Way students... kinda explains the hitching thing. They stayed last night. very cool bunch of people i must say. They came along to our church prayer meeting this morning and then we went

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You have set your gloryabove the heavens.From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praisebecause of your enimies,to silence the foe and the avenger.Psalm 8:1a-2Wow this is bigger then I thought! Not only can kids worship God and connect with Him, but God's got a reason for it.In Matthew 21 after Jesus did His rampage through the temple, and was healing the sick, there were kids in

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It's been a week now, but I just haven't had time to blog!Eight was great.They started with solo acts from 3 members. Bass player Alastiar Rodgers kicked it off witha few songs, aparently never before played in public followed by lead guitar/vocals Bruce Conlon. And then finally, the hottie (am i allowd to say that?) Chris Cope. Karen played music with him at school. I'm really looking forward to

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We had a worship time at Kids Church last Sunday. I want kids to have the chance to connect with their creator. They naturally do when they are really little, and my theory is that if we encourage them to keep connection with God when they are young then they won't loose it.I knew there were a few boys down the back that weren't into it, but we kept going anyway.I opened my eyes to sneak a look

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All good things must come to an end. But eight is a really really good thing. And they're breaking up. sob sob.I fell in love with eight when I heard a track on a compilation album that came free with a Christian Music Magazine. Can't remember the name of it now. It must have been back in 1999... no actually I think it was!Eight are playing the first of their final gigs this Thursday at Arc.

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Recently I've thought a lot about how much childhood experiences effect the rest of a childs life. A child learns to trust as an infant. If Im hungry I'll be fed. If I'm stinky my nappy will get changed. When I'm in these arms I know I'm safe.But when that trust is broken all sorts of bad things happen to the kids mind. They get confused about what is normal. Often they will either have no

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Here’s something interesting for ya. If I have done my homework correctly then in 1999... * The vision for the First Wave Army (Life Way) was born, the first intake the following year. * 24/7 prayer movement started in Cheshester, England * International House of prayer was started * The first Get Smart conference was held * LINK started in Christchurch... * and I’m sure other

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Now that I've had a couple of days to process stuff from the weekend I'll write a blog about it.Kids Reach was awesome as always, but personally a very special weekend this time.Usually I come away with so many ideas and thoughts and things that God has been speaking to me about that I get completely overwhelmed with it all. This time though there was a few themes that ran throughout the

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I am so totally excited about LINK! If you wany to know more about it then there is a site up... www.link.org.nz or click on the hyperlink on the menu at the side.I've got many thoughts percolating about LINK at the moment, so more later...

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i could hear the snow coming this morning.you hear that airy sound, kind of like the sound of silence in a library.anyways, i was in Azcena when it started to hail, then it turned to snow. what joy. i love snow. i only hope that it doesn't prevent planes from taking off this avo cos i'm headin up to even windyer then Dunedin Wellington for Kids Reach Conference.I loooove this conference. i get to

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A fool shows his annoyance at once,but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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I'm loving this CD at the moment. Esp track 2, ' True'.CCC Oxford falls has produced heaps of good worship albums. the cool thing about them is that they have a variety of styles. if your interested then check out CCC Oxford Falls

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He he, I had a great walk to the beach this morning. I missed a beautiful sunrise by about 10 min but there was a rainbow in the sky. Nice eh. It had been raining last night so all these birds were snacking on the worms that had surfaced at the rugby ground. It was funny, there were all these black birds over one side of the field. Then on the other side a huge congregation of white seagulls

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Like the other day I like went for like a walk and like I came across like this friend that I haven’t seen in like ages. Anyway, we like caught up and like went out for coffee and like the café was like really busy so like we ended up like just going to Mc’Ds instead. Like you know how much I like hate McDonalds eh. But anyway, it turned out that like she was going to go to like the north

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Well I’ve just made hot chocolates for like everyone in the building and that still didn’t warm my hands up. Cold hands make for bad typing. I’ve been writing in my journal heaps recently. Actually my writing at the moment is much like the rambling of a pathetic teenager girl… but that’s not the point.On the 25th I thought I’d look at the first entry, curious to see if I’ve grown since then.

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how is it that I'm related to this guy...check out his sites...http://localhoons.tk(be sure to look at "sum kool pics, and then click on "here" at the top of the page for some more)"http://rawdata.tk/(for all your raw data needs, naturally)and on a slightly more serious note, check out The Dry"http://thedry.tk/

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Finally, after like months of living in my new room I'm sorted. I now officially have a lounge/ office/ sewing room/ sun room/ cat’s spot/ clothes drying space in the conservatory off my room. It sounds kinda cramped. Yea it is. But it’s organised! Ahhh. Now I can relax.Oh yea and I’ve finally really really finished cleaning out the Kids Church resource cupboards. So now it’s time to get down to

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After church on Sunday night Tish and I drove up Mt Cargil to chat to God. Good times. The cool thing about it was the fog. I love being above the clouds and at night it looks crazy with light shining up through the clouds. It kinda looks like fire. Watching the clouds move and make different shapes above you is one thing, but watching them from above is wicked. How can anyone go up a hill

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If I was me, I would put myself in a box and label it wrong.I like boxes. I like being right. But when I put right into a box, it somehow becomes wrong.Since my ideas are changing, my attitudes are being challenged, I have realised that all this time I was mistaken when I thought “if one is right, then the other wrong”.A lack of wisdom. That’s my problem. If I can’t understand why something is

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Yesterday I worked at Azucena. Had a great catch up with my bro Matt and a couple of other guys. They were talking about worship styles & the emergent church. Matt has been doing some reading up on this recently. Very interesting stuff. Is it me or is every one around me frustrated with the way we run church? Some of the people I’ve that have known in the past to be anti conventional church

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What a weekend. Friday night we had a huge event called Unifire. It was for both Edge (youthies) and Vision (students) and it totally went off. On Saturday I went to a Children’s ministry conference. I learnt heaps and met heaps of other children’s leaders from around Dunedin. Very cool. Then to my families house for dinner cos my bro graduated, then to an 80’s party for some friends who had a

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I got my hair cut… so it’s not all that different… but I got a fringe for the first time since I was about 13 (when it pinged up in little ringlets and looked extremely geeky). The length is much the same. I’m thinking that next time I’m gonna do the big chop… maybe in a few months… There was this intern working there and she practiced on my hair for something she has to do tomorrow. She

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I’ve just spent the last 3 hours cleaning out the children’s church ’resource’ cupboard. I’ve thrown out paint that’s gone all lumpy and smells a bit like blue vein cheese. I’ve thrown out a ton of scrappy paper with way too much still left over. And what on earth are we sposed to do with all those toothpaste boxes? Half this stuff must have been there for like 20 years. Oh and the ‘

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Last night we had a LINK meeting. Link is a children’s leaders network I'm involved with in Dunedin.Very Exciting.Anyway, we prayed at the beginning and I felt like God was saying to dream.I also thought of Carisbrook. Every person I know who has a thing for Dunedin has a thing for Carisbrook.Could this be a coincidence? Doubt it.I asked, “if money and logistics weren’t an issue, what would you

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