All posts by Mark Edwards

Rodney Olsen is getting thrown in jail

No, its not because he is an Eagles supporter, its for a much better reason.

“This Friday I’m going to be locked in a prison cell for a crime I didn’t commit. I need your help to gain my freedom.From 9:00 a.m. to midday on Friday, the 27th of April, I will be broadcasting my 98.5 Sonshine FM radio programme from Fremantle Prison, where I’ll be locked in a cell. I’ll be asking people to donate towards Cystic Fibrosis WA so that I can be released. I need your help to pull off my own prison break. (You can even come and see me in my cell if you live locally.)
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common life threatening, recessive genetic condition affecting Australian children and is the second most common life-shortening, childhood onset inherited disorder in the United States. For such a serious condition it really doesn’t get a lot of attention. I’d like to create as much interest in the cause as possible. Can you let friends know about the event? Perhaps you can forward this email to your address list. If you publish a blog can you please consider linking to this post?

Thanks for your help in making life easier for sufferers of CF and their families.
Regards
Rodney– http://www.rodneyolsen.net

Rodney is a really good bloke, and this is a great cause.

We Remember

It was a really good service this morning, well led.

Q interviewed two senior ladies as we remembered Anzac Day. These two had remarkable stories.

M was sent off to Canada as a 12 year old from the Uk in 1940. She remembered bomb shelters and being scared when the siren sounded. She married H who was a Lancaster Bomber pilot. He has gone to be with the Lord, but she told how he used to have to fly in the dark night over the English Channel and bomb U-Boats.

B was married for only a short time, had a young baby and her husband was sent off to New Guinea and other placed for 5 years! She had to go to the farm to help her father out.

Both of these ladies have been at Bedford for over 3o years and are very supportive of the ministry. What an example they are.

This week I will put the ten minute interview online, and you can listen to it.

We also spent some time in prayer for the families of those lost in that terrible shooting in the US.

Being slack and being missional

I had a really interesting conversation with a good mate over a sloppy greasy hamburger at Hungry Jacks. (Actually I had the hamburger, he had a relatively healthy chicken salad roll or something)

We were talking about the EC and he made this comment, “you know there are slack inward looking people and leaders in all forms of church, whether they are EC, or other forms”
His point was we should not criticise the movents or forms of church, so much as challenge everyone to mission, no matter how they do it.

I thought that was a great point.

However all I would say is this, if you are leaving the less radical forms of church in order to be missional, because you have had enough of churches who just grow through transfer growth, then make sure you are being missional, and measure that in some way, so you know you are not just talking about it.

The same could be said to me and others in my position. If you are going to try and facilitate a church being transformed and ‘renovated’, then make sure mission stays your focus, and when you actually start to have an attractive church, don’t be happy with just attracting other Christians.

Sunday 29th April Eagles D Registration day


Dockerland.com are pushing for April 29th to be Eagles deregistration day. The Management of the WC have been asked to come to AFL headquaters on that date to explain the shocking culture at the reigning premiers. Many of us believe the time has come, the call to action is here…..de register them!!! All their assests can be redistributed, and Freo can have Chris Judd.
You can read about their commmunity minded efforts here