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Disillusionment is a good thing
It was nice to be back at the Poatina Morning Tea today and start to see people again. Today I received a call about another person who might like to come into the village to be supported. One of Poatina’s gifts is the way it makes room for people who need an extra hand. Its not always easy though, and sometimes we can get the priorities wrong.
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Becoming Mature
Poatina Morning tea devotion given today Had a really pretty special time in South Africa…we have been invested in S Africa for 3 years now and the task this time was to leave this team at a point where they didn’t need someone from the outside to be there. We did a 2 week training block, now they are having this week off and then 4 weeks with Claire B and Steffi . Their job is to stand with them and support them. They’ve got Kids Clubs running strongly. Want to get daytrips on a regular footing and to have a team structure in place.
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Different so we can serve each other
Poatina Morning Tea devotion given today I don’t feel like jumping on a plane and flying to South Africa And the request for a suitcase is real. I have destroyed 2 in my last 2 trips oversees, so if you have a sturdy one that would be great. Getting read to go to South Africa, I was really affected by visit to Robin Island. What would i have done if I was Nelson Mandella Does life happen to you, or do you make life happen? In South Africa White people were in power, and they used that power to oppress the black and coloured people as a way of staying…
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Shut up and Listen
Prayer means shutting up I continue to be challenged and inspired by Ecclesiastes. I am also really interested to be seeing the parallels between the Apostle Paul’s writing and this book. I have a sense that Paul read Ecclesiastes regularly as a source of inspiration for dealing with all the foibles of the early church. Bruce Dutton shared at the Poatina morning tea this morning about Prayer. He is going through the book ‘Celebration of Discipline’ by Richard Foster. It’s a great book, but his central point about prayer was actually discovered by Solomon many hundreds of years ago.
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Big boys don’t cry
Allowing myself to be here I was deeply challenged by a passing comment that Heather Bradbury made at a Poatina morning tea this week. She also wrote about it on her blog which you will find here. We have two very special people visiting Poatina this week. They are aboriginal artists from Uluru. Soon after they arrived they sat Heather down and asked her to tell them the story of Aboriginals in Tasmania. One of them asked Heather to get some tissues because it was a sad story and she was going to cry. When I first heard Heather say this, and talked about how sad it was to tell…
