Here's Johnnie!!

During his work hours, my brother met our Prime Minister today, John Howard!!! Apparently he came to open up their new office. He even asked him to get his photo with him. How cool is that? And how nice was Johnnie to oblige? I think I'll vote for him.

My First Baptisms

Today I did my first baptism. Well, 3 of them! Full immersion, in a deep dam, in good old local Kenthurst. Basically I have been meeting up with Bec, Matt and Libby, and reading the Bible with them. They asked me to baptise them. And today I finally did, in their own dam. I had to tread water the whole time while they came in and out of the water, and about 50 people were there to watch. Even though I've been swimming at the beach quite a lot lately, I was quite out of breath when we came out, which made it hard to keep the little service rolling. The dog even jumped in the water and wanted to be baptised as well! I'm so thankful for this opportunity. And a good thing too that it was a hot day today.

I'll blog about the church plant tomorrow- we had our first meeting today...exciting stuff!

Its Church Planting Time!

Sunday was a busy day. We voted on a time change for the existing congregation to make way for a new congregation. We settled on 8:30am, which doesn't suit everyone, and there were some tears. Then that afternoon, I had over the families who will be a part of the new congregation. Some of them met for the first time. It was exciting to hear them meet each other and talk about their previous church experience. Next Sunday we will have our first service. Nervous? Yep! Excited? Definitely.

Road Soccer

I went to a one day conference on Church Planting today. I almost ran over a soccer ball on the way home. These two events are not related.

Here is the picture that was in the Sydney Morning Herald. (Hi Mum!) Any thoughts for a funny caption?

Famous Again...

Apparently I'm famous again. We had a rehearsal yesterday for Saturday's ordination, and my mug made it into the newspaper. Anyway, if you look here, or on page 5 of the Sydney Morning Herald, you just may spot me....not that I like the limelight or anything, but hey.

Gadgets

I now have a new mobile/PDA/MP3/GKWE (goodness knows what else). I am now officially a yuppie.