The Port Coach decided to have a red hot go at Fremantle in a bizarro press conference at the airport. Amongst other things he said that Josh Carr was the real captain of Freo, that Josh Carr was the reason Fremantle is doing so well, and is the reason the Dockers are a premiership fancied side.

Than commenting on a blog, which is an introspective excercise already, than commenting on the changes you have made to said blog?
Well, hopefully the changes Blogger Beta allows make this blog a little easier on the eyes.

Completing the final details for the 2006 2Gether Pastors Conference.

Myself and Malcom Rule from Encounter Church do a lot of the legwork to organise this conference, in consultation with the Baptist Pastors Association, Baptist Family of Churches, Churches of Christ Ministers Network and Churches of Christ Board.

This year we have Phil Baker, Tracey Johnston and Allan Meyers speaking. They are all dealing with issues of personhood, personal courage, dealing with people.

Phil will be sharing some of his own struggles and difficulties in transitioning Riverview.

One new thing I am really looking forward to is the new intiative, “ThinkTanks”.

These are unstructured times where groups of people gather to discuss whatever issues are on their heart.

Karen Wilson will be leading one on “women in ministry”, Andrew Hamilton will be leading one on the emerging church stuff and Malcolm will be leading one on using multi media in a small church context. Others will have freedom to lead one on whatever they want.
Should be fun!

courtesy of Dockerland.com

Was invited by a friend to the Leadership Breakfast hosted by Phil Baker.

Phil spoke on leadership principles learnt from the Ancient Egyptians.
Built to last, communication, working as a team.
It was a very well researched, humorous and insightful talk.
These are very well run events.

I was reflecting today that it was reminiscent of the old Christian Business Men Meetings. In their day these were effective and purposeful meetings, designed to share Christ to Business Men. What Phil is doing is a modern twist on that old idea, with the obvious non-exclusion of women of course.

My friend has also found that from a business perspective, such networking times have also been effective for his business.

If you get a chance, I encourage you to get along, if only to see what sort of things they do, and its fun!

I said last week that Fremantle played the best I have ever seen them play.
This week they played very well, but perhaps the more interesting aspect of the game is how ordinary West Coast looked.

The Dockers are now installed as equal second favourites with the Adelaide Crows. That was unthinkable 7 weeks ago.

I had a great time, sat next to two friendly Eagles supporters, and apart from some argy bargy in the section next to mine, the crowd was good.

But hows the karaoke Eagle’s song on the scoreboard?
And how is the innane SGIO Eagles chant?

The Eagles crowd was very quiet most of the day, but I suppose with that scoreline, its to be expected.