I posted this over at Ra’ah but thought I might post it here as well. It was an interesting exercise.

Sunday Get to church at 8.30 am, check computer data projector. Speak to various people, including Welcome Leader, make sure things are okay for visitors, including nursery etc.
10am Church time, normally preach, and give vision spot, letting people know whats going on, whats a blessing and a challenge this week.
11.30 Welcome visitors, key time as we often have guests there.
Lunch often have people back, especially guests, new folk

Monday Administration day, at the moment spending a lot of time getting applications in for development loans for our big move as a church to a purpose built coffee shop and Performing Arts Centre

Tuesday Key meeting for prayer and discussion with church leadership, We talk and pray about big picture vision, and also visitors, guests, people we need to pray for and follow up on. Working out what worked on Sunday, getting plans in place for next Sunday
Often have meetings all day, including some with community folk

Wednesday Morning Prep for lecturing gig I have at a leadership college
Arvo Lecture in afternoon
Night Community Choir our church runs, about half of people who come are not church goers, key outreach activity.

Thursday Sermon preparation, reading, praying etc
Night Small group

Friday Morning Toddler Jam Key outreach activity of our church
Afternoon Preparation for multi media elements of church, as well as bulletin, other details
Night Prayer meeting

Saturday Morning Auskick with Clem, great opportunity, starting to make some contacts in community
Afternoon Either miserable as Dockers lose, or gloat as they win, if Dockers win and Eagles lose, its a beautiful weekend. If another Eagles star is in trouble again, thats triple happiness.

No…..I am not talking about Charles.

Chris Tarrant is getting trial by media at the moment. I want to redress the situation somewhat.

Firstly, the ‘politician’ has now admitted a number of things. he was in the bar at 2am…..mmmmm
Secondly he has stated, “I had a red hot go at Tarrant”. This was before the alleged incident.
Thirdly, Tarrant did not ‘king hit’ Hale, as Mike Sheehan has stated, he pushed him from the front. Harvey was king hit from behind, thats cowardice, not what Tarrant did.
Fourthly Maybe Hale was not being gallant at all, but looking for a reason to bait Tarrant
Fifthly this incident is quite different from the Farmer one. Jeff was on his last chance with Freo, this is Chris’s first offence with Freo, although it is widely reported he had issues at the Pies (who let him off because he was crucial to their finals chances!)
Sixthly He did not ‘moon’ a young lady. He was playing a prank on his mate Solomon. He should not have done it in a public bar. He has rang the lady and apologised.

Apparently Chris Tarrant has punched a local politician after an altercation in a local nightclub. Freo supporters at the night club state the incident did not take place.
Interesting that it took so long to come out, makes you wonder what the truth is. Either way, The West will print their dribble tommorow to sell some papers, and one local politician has got his day in the camera…..

People are already comparing it to the Farmer incident. There is little comparison. Farmer had a litany of off field misdemenours. Tarrant does not, at least not at Freo. He deserves a chance, Farmer exhausted his, and paid the price, six weeks.
It seems the media wants to suggest the club should suspend Chris…….mmmmm where were they when Chick, Kerr, Fletcher, Lynch and the like were doing far worse?? All the bias WA media and many of the public suggested, was that they were playing well, and so should be kept playing. It was not until the AFL threatened them with a loss of premiership points that they acted on Cousins.

If found guilty by the club, I have no doubt Chris Tarrant will be sanctioned by Freo, they have proved they will do the right thing in the past, but lets be balanced and not hypocritical about this.

What might happen in the remaining 11 games of the season….
Dissapointing game, and I cant quite work out why we lost, apart from the obvious fact that the Bullies kicked more goals than us.
We had it inside 50 more than them, and more scoring opportunities. One problem was the long bombs in the forward 50. I reckon we miss Farmer more than we realise.
Thank goodness he is back for our next game.
If we do make the eight, anything can happen.