Can you feel it coming in the air? A sense of a lost past conjured in the way the wind moves through the buildings. A feeling that makes your toes curl before your brain even registers the pang. A scent so refreshing its reminds you of the time you drank 7 litres of homemade lemonade. A daylight which lasts longer then your uncles wedding reception...
summer...
it has finally arrived. 3 months of pure sunshine delivered from the heavens. A breeze that demands you leave your windows down and a silent calling urging to give up your day job, buy a kombi and set off on a road trip leading nowhere.
summer 2009. its yours for the taking.
Saturday 29 November 2008
Wednesday 26 November 2008
Home Sweet Homeless
2 cars. 4 states. 6 days. 8 guys. $10,000. 6,000km
Return Road trip - Mooloolaba to Ularu
Raising Awareness & Money for Homelessness
Supporting 'Street Swags' with the hope of raising $10,000 to buy 200 swags to give to homeless men & women Across QLD's Sunshine Coast in 2009.
The catch... we go homeless for the week. Travel with no accomodation or food. finding work and raising money as we go. Sleeping in parks, roadsides, shelters, under bridges or anywhere we are offered.
Video blog our adventure.
Mooloolaba, Dalby, St George, Bourke, Broken Hill, Port August, Coober Pedy, Ullaru, Alice springs, Mt Isa, Cloncury, Longreach, Mundubbra, Gympie & Mooloolaba.
The Charity organisation 'Street Swag' gives their full support and endorsement.
Road trippers united. 2009 is our year!
Return Road trip - Mooloolaba to Ularu
Raising Awareness & Money for Homelessness
Supporting 'Street Swags' with the hope of raising $10,000 to buy 200 swags to give to homeless men & women Across QLD's Sunshine Coast in 2009.
The catch... we go homeless for the week. Travel with no accomodation or food. finding work and raising money as we go. Sleeping in parks, roadsides, shelters, under bridges or anywhere we are offered.
Video blog our adventure.
Mooloolaba, Dalby, St George, Bourke, Broken Hill, Port August, Coober Pedy, Ullaru, Alice springs, Mt Isa, Cloncury, Longreach, Mundubbra, Gympie & Mooloolaba.
The Charity organisation 'Street Swag' gives their full support and endorsement.
Road trippers united. 2009 is our year!
Wednesday 19 November 2008
10 rules you were never taught in school
Seeing the culmination of another year and the graduation of another class made me stop and ponder how long it has actually been since my glorious school years. 5 Years on I have realised life teaches you things that school never did. Bill Gates sums it up well in a stark 10 point list...
//Rule 001
Life is not fair - get used to it!
//Rule 002
The world won't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
//Rule 003
You will not make $80,000 a year right out of high school.
//Rule 004
Teachers arent tough/mean.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
//Rule 005
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
//Rule 006
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault.
So don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
//Rule 007
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your phone bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you think you were. So before become a famous rock star try cleaning your room and helping out.
//Rule 008
You don’t have 5 times to get life right.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
//Rule 009
Life is not divided into semesters/terms.
You don't get 2 months off over christmas and very few employers are interested In helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
//Rule 010
Television is not real life.
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
- Bill Gates
//Rule 001
Life is not fair - get used to it!
//Rule 002
The world won't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
//Rule 003
You will not make $80,000 a year right out of high school.
//Rule 004
Teachers arent tough/mean.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
//Rule 005
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
//Rule 006
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault.
So don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
//Rule 007
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your phone bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you think you were. So before become a famous rock star try cleaning your room and helping out.
//Rule 008
You don’t have 5 times to get life right.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
//Rule 009
Life is not divided into semesters/terms.
You don't get 2 months off over christmas and very few employers are interested In helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
//Rule 010
Television is not real life.
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
- Bill Gates
Monday 17 November 2008
Saturday 15 November 2008
3 point line
My self accountability goal setting program for 2009
- Write a book
- Be the face of change for homelessness on Sunshine Coast
- Start own shirt label
- increase import business
- follow through on small business ideas
- Overseas missions trip
- Visit South African Family
- Build and multiply a KNECT
- Pay off car
- build solid lasting friendships
- increase tithe & Building Pledge
- Mentor 2 non christian school boys
- Mentor 2 Christian guys
- increase influence and affluence
- more to come
- Write a book
- Be the face of change for homelessness on Sunshine Coast
- Start own shirt label
- increase import business
- follow through on small business ideas
- Overseas missions trip
- Visit South African Family
- Build and multiply a KNECT
- Pay off car
- build solid lasting friendships
- increase tithe & Building Pledge
- Mentor 2 non christian school boys
- Mentor 2 Christian guys
- increase influence and affluence
- more to come
Thursday 13 November 2008
the tip of the iceberg.
If Kings still only had 100 people, and was in a run down chook shed, with no video projector, itelligent lighting or royal atrium would you be reading this? Would your life be what it is now?
The building wasn’t always here and the carpet wasn’t always laid. People that you will never see, or ever know have sown their lives and their money into something which we are benefiting from.
We as a congregation have given week in, week out, not because of what we would receive, but because we knew that what we were doing would impact the future generation, and so it has!
It’s great to pause and look back at what God has done in the year, smile and laugh at the good memories. But it is so much more exciting looking at the opportunities ahead and see memories yet to be made.
Kings is what it is today, becuase people like you and me rise to the challenge and take ahold of the opportunity.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
- Reuben Leigh Skewes
The building wasn’t always here and the carpet wasn’t always laid. People that you will never see, or ever know have sown their lives and their money into something which we are benefiting from.
We as a congregation have given week in, week out, not because of what we would receive, but because we knew that what we were doing would impact the future generation, and so it has!
It’s great to pause and look back at what God has done in the year, smile and laugh at the good memories. But it is so much more exciting looking at the opportunities ahead and see memories yet to be made.
Kings is what it is today, becuase people like you and me rise to the challenge and take ahold of the opportunity.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
- Reuben Leigh Skewes
Wednesday 12 November 2008
late elongations
what lays as ashes cannot rise in the glory of its former prime. Lay to rest your verisimilitude for now is a new time, the now, the present. An opportunity to rise like the waters of the ocean with mirrored velocity and force break free from your old ways. Bow no longer to the duress of apparent past victories and losses but continue with stead on the journey looking only at the prize.
- Reuben leigh Skewes
- Reuben leigh Skewes
Wisdom of the young
Jazza Vock one of our many young champions at Kings wrote a great blog which I feel is worth sharing. A prayer very similar to what I pray before getting up to speak at any church event.
see link... http://jazzavock.blogspot.com/2008/11/prayer-of-preacher.html
To have these things being processed in the minds of teens as young as Jazza only leave me with a firm excitement for what the future holds.
To every young person who reads, blogs, yearns, desires and believes for change upon their generation, may this prayer be the starting point of greater things.
- Reuben leigh Skewes
see link... http://jazzavock.blogspot.com/2008/11/prayer-of-preacher.html
To have these things being processed in the minds of teens as young as Jazza only leave me with a firm excitement for what the future holds.
To every young person who reads, blogs, yearns, desires and believes for change upon their generation, may this prayer be the starting point of greater things.
- Reuben leigh Skewes
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Relational Leadership
we must worry not for the task before us
but rather for the people beside us,
for it is those beside us
that achieve what is before us.
- Reuben Leigh Skewes
but rather for the people beside us,
for it is those beside us
that achieve what is before us.
- Reuben Leigh Skewes
Saturday 8 November 2008
Friday 7 November 2008
'Floating Rib Syndrome'
A recent visit to the doctor left me with an unusual find.
I was diagnosed with 'Floating Rib Syndrome'. A condition which has been causing me serious pain for the last few weeks. Happy it wasn't some serious kidney condition I walked out relieved. Only then to think... What is a floating rib?
A 'floating rib' is a rib strayed from the bone socket. often the socket is worn or the rib has loosened from injury. This condition is very painful. The attached muscles are very sensitive and tender and are given to extreme hard work and pain attempting to subdue the wayward bone.
Heat can be applied as a temporary relief but a prime consistent reliever are the hands of a doctor or masseuse who can manipulate the bone back into the socket.
I find the 'floating rib syndrome' very similar to church life. Rather I refer to it as 'floating person syndrome'. Both you and I know many people with this syndrome.
Let me explain...
Just like the floating rib, a 'floating person' is an individual who digress from the socket of 'committed Christian'. Either they stray from worn beliefs or from emotional injury. Given up and no longer thought a part of the body, they wander back and forth going nowhere ad achieving nothing. In doing so they cause considerable pain for the leaders, friends and family around them.
Those around them can temporarily relieve their condition by applying heat and showing love and acceptance, Yet this is short lived and again they are wandering further and increasing pain. It is only the 'Hand of God' able to slowly massage and manipulate these 'floaters' back into place.
So what is the purpose of this thought I hear you ponder....
Both you and I know 'floaters' and no doubt have endured much pain and frustration from them. We must remember that yes we can and should show love, but we are not required to fix their situations. Our love and acceptance married with Gods working hands is the ultimate combination.
Like my floating rib. I don't ignore it, I haven't removed it and I don't pass it off as useless. Rather I endure the pain for I know without it I am a lesser man. I request the help of the doctor and accept his wisdom.
We cannot ignore, remove or pass off. We must accept, hope and believe that these floaters can be reunited with the body, because without them the church is a lesser being.
- Reuben leigh Skewes
I was diagnosed with 'Floating Rib Syndrome'. A condition which has been causing me serious pain for the last few weeks. Happy it wasn't some serious kidney condition I walked out relieved. Only then to think... What is a floating rib?
A 'floating rib' is a rib strayed from the bone socket. often the socket is worn or the rib has loosened from injury. This condition is very painful. The attached muscles are very sensitive and tender and are given to extreme hard work and pain attempting to subdue the wayward bone.
Heat can be applied as a temporary relief but a prime consistent reliever are the hands of a doctor or masseuse who can manipulate the bone back into the socket.
I find the 'floating rib syndrome' very similar to church life. Rather I refer to it as 'floating person syndrome'. Both you and I know many people with this syndrome.
Let me explain...
Just like the floating rib, a 'floating person' is an individual who digress from the socket of 'committed Christian'. Either they stray from worn beliefs or from emotional injury. Given up and no longer thought a part of the body, they wander back and forth going nowhere ad achieving nothing. In doing so they cause considerable pain for the leaders, friends and family around them.
Those around them can temporarily relieve their condition by applying heat and showing love and acceptance, Yet this is short lived and again they are wandering further and increasing pain. It is only the 'Hand of God' able to slowly massage and manipulate these 'floaters' back into place.
So what is the purpose of this thought I hear you ponder....
Both you and I know 'floaters' and no doubt have endured much pain and frustration from them. We must remember that yes we can and should show love, but we are not required to fix their situations. Our love and acceptance married with Gods working hands is the ultimate combination.
Like my floating rib. I don't ignore it, I haven't removed it and I don't pass it off as useless. Rather I endure the pain for I know without it I am a lesser man. I request the help of the doctor and accept his wisdom.
We cannot ignore, remove or pass off. We must accept, hope and believe that these floaters can be reunited with the body, because without them the church is a lesser being.
- Reuben leigh Skewes
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)