Spoke up at Toodyay Baptist Church today….stayed at a friends house and celebrated my wifes birthday.

Its a great church. Not big, but they are certainly punching against their weight.
They have a great facility on the main strip, with good audio visual equipment. They bought a former works factory building, and have renovated it
This is not only for them, but the building is used all week by various community groups, dancing, drum groups, parenting groups etc.

They also run saturday night family movies….which in a pretty quite Saturday night, attract a good crowd.
I was really impressed with their community minded outlook.

Enjoyed preaching there….but there is nothing quite like Inglewood… 🙂

Getting ready for a fantastic Christmas Season…
This year we are doing this series at church….
Carols at the Inglewood Civic Centre…and Christmas Day service as well.
Getting a banner made up (Western Landscapes $100 for a 2m x 1m Cheap!) and hanging it overlooking Beaufort St.
The local Cafe is sponsoring our carols….should be a great night!

Busy busy Christmas…..love Christmas!

Opportunity
remembrance
Carols
holidays to come…
summer….
sand, beach…..swimming with my kids…
food….
maybe some good coffee….

its all good….love it!

Great day in church today.
The service seemed to ‘flow’….it seemed like seemingly radomn aspects of the service were all interelated and with common themes….
We introduced our Ministry Team Leaders and Leadership Team to the church, and stood and prayed for them all.

I served communion to all the leaders….who then in turn went on to serve communion to the congregation. It was a visual reminder that leaders are servants first…and not above anyone else….

Then…continuing the ‘flow’ thought…I then radomnly introduced a visitor from Brazil to another girl who came from Portugal…not thinking they spoke the same language…which of course they do. (duh!) and off they happily prattled to each other, and ended up organising for the visitor to attend a home group…God is good..and knows far better than me what needs doing.

Melinda made some incredible morning tea…..little savoury cheese, bacon, tomatoe scorll thingos…and some lemon butter scroll things…mmmmmm…scroll things…..

This is excellent.
Rick shows how the church can be the third leg on the stool to bring about real change in the environment, social and spiritual issues in the world.

So much social activity on Beaufort St today.
Went down to community centre to help set up for the Artisan Markets which our church administers. We set up a free bouncy castle and music, and look after the stall holders…its great.
About 30 artisan/craft and other stall holders….hive of activity and people.

Drove down the road, passed Mondo’s butchers with their markets…
Bought some beautiful Ciabata Bread from Lawleys Market, picked up a coffee from the Beaufort St Merchant, just across from Elmars open street hot meat stall…..

I love living here!!