Great day at conference today.
We were led in a time of visiting ‘stations’ repentance, communion, healing, prayer…..
not everyones cup of tea…but I enjoyed it…and so did most of the people there.

Tim Hanna brought a great message…..

Tim Hanna Tuesday Session
Culture of healthy relationships
Don’t tolerate unhealthy relationships
Build community
Unresolved sin destroys relationships
If they remain unresolved
Are we okay?

Passion Encouragement Development
Apathy = No passion Passion with action changes the world
Easier to restrain a maniac than revive a corpse

Define your church by what your stand for

Establish a Taboo free church
Declare what you won’t change, helps you change other things

Promotion of Empowered Leadership
Accountability & Authority
Empower people to be the best they can be

Develop Effective Teams
Character Competance Chemistry

Team Covenants How we operate as a team

Best Team Worst Team Ideal Team
What do I need to be my best leader?

Team Covenants

……sigh……

Today was an amazing service…God spoke in so many ways to us….putting something deep into our psyche.

I warned the church last week that our special guest might be a little rough around the edges, and that we needed to show grace and acceptance to him. He was a vietnam veteran who was 38 when he went to service…and had to lead a group of 18 and 19 year olds.

The stories about the rejection that Vietnam Vets suffered at the hands of overzealous protestors (buckets of blood chucked on his head) and from the RSL…who told them they were not real soldiers and had not fought in the war. In fact we were told this morning that the reason for many of the issues the Vets faced was not so much from the war, but the rejection they experienced when they came home.

The church shed a few tears, and gave a word of thanks and acceptance.

Colin Battersby led us in a moving worship time, and played along with his excellent mult-media presentation, It is well with my Soul… Brilliant….Grab him if you can, he consults and leads worship teams to greater depth and proficiency, from wherever they are.

Afterwards we shared Anzac Cookies and a good coffee and shared about what God had done in our midst…a big crowd in, and a time of blessing…..Thanks God for giving us something new.

Should play soccer with this effort….expected outcome? Crowley and Carr to get 9 weeks because they wear the Purple Jumper and dared to outplay the umpires pet…

If that Fremantle team turn up every week…watch out.
Apart from a rather unexplainable period towards the end of the second quarter…when Freo went into shut down mode.

Sandilands…what can I say? His best game for Freo…an exceptional player, and an exceptional game from him.
Crowley’s job on Abblet worthy of a mention…Crowley had the best of him most of the night, including a couple of well deserved ‘holding the ball’ decisions.
How his kick out of bounds was called deliberate, and the Geelong one late in the fourth was not…has got me..all we ask for is consistency…and we dont get it.
Could not believe Jeff Farmer got a couple of frees tonight…he does not get frees!!!
There are plenty of what ifs…and we almost won. Of course we dont get the four points…but I was expecting a thrashing.

Message to Harvey…keep playing the young players…who said we had no good young players coming through? They were wrong.

Its hard to enjoy the misery of West Coast fans when your own team is doing so badly….and facing Geelong this Friday.