Friends
I am so surprised by how many of these guys at Together for the Gospel call their books friends.. check out the Personal Study Tours, a bunch of videos of old dudes showing you through their library.. and revealing their weirdness.. very awesome.
Lasagne
Nikki and Mikey are an awesome ministry couple.
Tomorrow they will God willing have their 3rd child, which is way awesome. With that in the forefront of his mind, Mikey has been working real hard at Uni Fellowship to make sure everything is running smooth and awesome, and that the Committee is pumped, and that I’m doing ok too.
So, today the Lynchs made me Lasagne. They’re really Brilliant. Like Holidays, Airplanes and Volcanos.
Many MANY dragons.
So the other day I gave you an update on our flyering efforts during orientation week.
Well the whole Uni Fellowship Committee have turned into Avatars with many MANY dragons. And those funny horses.
Today after our 7:30am committee meeting, we headed onto Sandy Bay campus – (first time since Monday) – to give out our info to any new student studying Arts. Arts at UTAS, and I suspect everywhere else, is large, so large in fact that they split Arts orientation days down the middle according to surname. So today as the floodgates opened and the students piled in the Committee and staff opened fire. Aaron reckons we got 90% of the students.
And they are back to do it tomorrow!
Please be praying that as students begin their year, they might be curious enough to come along to our weekly lunchtime meetings on ‘The Christian Worldview’ or our evening meetings for awesome community pump up! And please pray that they come back and become curious about Jesus and Salvation.
Around the place Luke Hansard was doing his awesomeness today as well. He’s been doing it all week, just saw him for the first time today. Good times. Pray for him too.
You should comment on Luke’s blog, he will be encouraged and maybe write another blog post.
You Actually Have to Pray | TheResurgence
You Actually Have to Pray | TheResurgence.
As we read the book of Nehemiah, we appreciate that the man is no passive flower. We have a man of swift, decisive action; a creative and brilliant strategist who made things happen. He’d engineer and generate things through a mixture of ingenuity and belligerence.
So then why did he not do something? It would surely beat all this wailing. Begin a PR campaign, start lobbying, get on talk radio, or at least write a blog. Instead he mourns. And in doing so, he’s “blessed,” according to Jesus (Matt. 5:4).
Great post at the resurgence. I don’t link to them too often anymore – the info is generally recycled, a random list, book reviews on their own books or boring. But this one rocks.
Flyer (with dragons)
It’s orientation week at Uni this week – no, not O-week, but orientation week. That’s the one that doesn’t (yet) include alcohol in exorbitant proportions.
So, our aim this week is to attend all compulsory first year student sessions and hand out information for University Fellowship of Christians’ weekly and monthly gatherings.
Flyering I always found scary or confronting, but there is something different to flyering a campus to flyering town, and there is something different to flyering as a graduate than as a student. All of which make it much more enjoyable and pleasant.
What has really rocked is that so far in the two sessions we’ve been to, we’ve been able to direct students toward their lecture room or give them vital information. It’s really good, and I think the students appreciate it too.
Edit: Plus Mikey is a mighty Avatar of flyering. With a dragon. He flyers whilst riding the dragon. Really bold, and that helps heaps. He even goes to speak to lecturers to see if we can come in before the lecture begins to hand out flyers. Great stuff!
Roast
In the world of all things ‘Good Hobart Coffee’ there has been some exciting stuff going down:
Papa Carlos (as man of Bult would call him) and Oomph Coffee are opening their new Roastery on Murray Street possibly as early as next week. With a Slayer coffee machine, and they’ve just employed two of my friends. Good times!
Richard and the Villino Espresso crew have begun roasting their own coffee, and have apparently settled on some blends – I’m heading in to check it out now. 3 weeks ago when I was there last they were still trialing, so I’m keen to see what they’ve come up with. Plus I want a ‘Caleb Wilson – Head Barista’ business card 
Dane and Island Espresso have had their own blends back for quite a while now, and they rock. I even have a favourite one. Great to know Dane is back on top of his game.
Rest
My day of rest usually consists of a nice slow morning with a decent breakfast and plunger coffee. Then around 11:00 I head out for a coffee at one of my favourite cafes with a good book or a writing pad. In the afternoon I like to cook something enjoyable to eat later in the week, and then I go off to indoor soccer or around to my Mum’s place for dinner.
How about you? What do you do on your day(s) off?
MTS have a new website!
Finally.. and it looks fantastic. Makes me want to do an apprenticeship.. Oh.. well I AM doing an apprenticeship, but maybe to start it all over again..
I think I beat Mikey to blogging about it.
Find it Here
Edit: (Yes I know I broke my blog title conventions. Sometimes it’s worth it!)
Fresher
As a new MTS apprentice, Dan had this awesome welcome to the freshers at our weekly MTS training meeting on Thursday:
“..so in a moment, we’re gonna take you out and flush your head down the toilet”
What followed was an awesome discussion of expectations in ministry relating to work and rest, wives (or husbands), ‘ministry guilt’, and personal organisation. I had to leave early, but I’m looking forward to next week.
Hat
Mikey is the Hat Man.
Not in the “I have lots of vintage baseball caps” kind of way. Neither in the “Luke Hansard wears a special hat to cover his head” kind of way.
But in a Geneva/MTS/Uni Fellowship/Vision 100 kind of way.
He wore at least 3 hats today, and still managed to keep them on.
I was impressed, so this makes Mikey the Hat Man.
