just playing with the new TypePad templates. the big red chilli will be back. stay tuned.
Co-hosting John Bell this weekend. About 200 people coming. After the insane busyness of the week, 10 minutes with him was so refreshing. Mind you, he's had 6 weeks in Australia so clearly he's relaxed and enjoying himself. should be a great weekend. surprisingly, low-tech is wonderful as far as I'm concerned. tech only matters if what you want to do needs it. OR if its new tech and you want to try it and push it to the limit. That's an entirely different thing!
I had a really worthwhile time with the Aberfoyle ministry team talking about the internet. I realise that I don't have any kind of 'talk' on this, and trying to work out whether I should prepare one... So I did my 4 metaphors/lenses of community thing (it used to be three) which fostered good discussion. I plan to write it up and share it with you.
I was surprised that the leaders of one of our largest uniting churches were so computer illiterate (not a put-down!), but then the lenses which are partly generational help to explain that.
I just finished my Wired Church course again and was again unhappy with what we had and hadn't covered. But I also want to invent a distance education version that would package a whole of stuff....
Next week I'm co-leading a live-in leadership intensive for ministry leaders. I'm looking forward to a week at Nunyara, a special place for many reasons, where i can switch into retreat mode and attend to people and God and 'being'. my co-leader whom I've never worked with is wonderful and it will all be fine. Nunyara is a deep pool of surprises, almost every time.
but no Internet there.... what is 'retreat' supposed to mean these days.
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