Easter at 61:4.

DivaTired Easter seems to have come upon us quickly, very quickly this year. So much so, that I haven’t really been able to keep up with the news. So what’s been happening?

Firstly, Order 61:4 members are now firmly ensconced in the daily workings of Project 61:4. Scott, Lee Lee, Dane, Phillip, Jeremy, Allie, Amber, Ness, Sarah, Peter, Tom and Carly. They are rostered on to different areas, which varies from day to day. Hospitality, Life Center, Supermarket [emergency relief], Kids Court and the Youth Bus. Of course they have to study as well, which also comes into the roster quite heavily this year. What can I say, it’s been about five weeks since they started and it seems to be going well.

We are about to start major building renovations, which will be quite an upheaval, even getting ready for it to start has been a trial. The first part of the renovation process, is the kitchen, hopefully starting on the 31st of March. It’s been put off since the 10th, but we were ready for it to happen. Food will keep happening from the basement, we’ve set up in what was the laundry and have tweaked the menu so that we can keep it up for what will probably be the next two months, God willing.

The Youth bus has really picked up speed, now going out four nights a week. which is really having an impact. Now on Thursday’s we have youth worship, that is really starting to pick up. Another program focused on youth, that has been in the offing for a while is the retail training program. It’s now started and great to see some enthusiastic learning going on around the place.

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Well they’re here!

image Ok, that might be a bit dramatic, but participants in order 614 for 2008 arrived yesterday. So they settled in to the college, I think and they had a day of training today, which included them all having community lunch. Not in the sense of it, they sat together and got the lay of the land. I’ve only met a couple of the boys, so far, so I can’t say much more than that. The only analogy I can use, is rabbit in a spot light, I find it hard to relate now to being confronted with our regulars for the first time.

If you remember Geoff and Melissa, there little boy Alex was dedicated last weekend, it’s really beautiful to see them with Alex, Geoff is such a proud Dad, and Melissa seems to be revelling in motherhood.

If you remember Peter Lewis, Peter has been singing in the worship team for a while. He signed up as an adherent member of the Salvation Army last weekend, with news that He’s going to Tasmania to live. It was awesome to see him happy, there’s some Holy Spirit action going on there!

This weekend we’ve got some visitors from New York. I don’t know the extent of the territory in the states that they command, but the Territorial Commanders for New York are coming to Church this Sunday at 614, as well as our TC’s, The Knaggs. It’s a Yank Fest. I’m looking forward to it actually.

 

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Michael Russell, joins the Blogosphere!

Had an email from Mike this morning, and he’s now a fellow blogger! He started his blog off with a great post about child like faith. It’s always a big question, whether we approach God as innocents, remembering that we need to ask for forgiveness at just about every step! ;)

So check out Michael’s Blog,

Childlike Faith of a Big Kid

Give him a shout out or post a comment, it’s a great way to keep on sharing our community experience at 614, and keep it going. We’re always family you know.

 

The Start of another week, and February!

Scott and Lee Lee, officially started back today, and the first year Order 614 members will be here next monday. Ouch, where did those couple of weeks go? First Tuesday/ Community Lunch tomorrow, not really expecting heaps of people, it’s been rather quiet all round actually! Only 75 meals on Sunday, and about 50 today, well below the numbers we were doing at the end of last year.

We’ve changed things up a bit with the Life Centre food, we use the kitchen crockery and cutlery, it seems to be appreciated and is definitely much more dignified.

WooHoo, Looks like the kitchen renovations are going to happen in March, a big upheaval for what from the plans I’ve seen now, will be a huge improvement! Lot’s of shiny new things for Order members to keep spotless, or beware my wrath! Muhahahaha! (evil laugh). Oh and the Girl’s house now has it’s full complement with the inclusion of Curtis this week, today he was looking for a job as a checkout chick!

The end of another week!

WooHoo, another week gone, and a big one it was as well! We had the Pasadena Tabernacle Youth Chorus in for dinner tonight, they are on a whirlwind tour having just arrived from a congress in New Zealand. They made me come out so they could thank me for dinner, I hate that! They sang a couple of songs for us, beautiful!

NoahRussellIn even bigger news if you haven’t heard already, Michael Russell has become an Uncle, He emailed me today and it sounds like He’s chuffed!

There are more photos at this link if you want to have a look, Little Noah Benjamin, is very cute!

 

 

 

For the technologically challenged and one finger typists among’st you!

Did I say that slowly enough? Any way, you can click on the title of any post here to see the post on it’s own and comment on it or if you just want to contact me go to the contact peter page and use my email, or leave a comment there, which I’ll get email notification of!

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Today I got round to emailing a few people!

Well I have emailed quite a few people today, including Michael Russell. He of course got back in touch fairly quickly. Not like the rest of you. Any way Michael is working with kids in a before and afterschool program with the YMCA, and next week starts to teach a Home School group. Sounds like He’s doing well, Come on guys send me everyones email and tell me how you’re doing now that you are in the real world!