Risking our kids

Spent the last fortnight on leave, which was a great time for renewal and refreshment but while on my break I watched a documentary called “Risking our Kids” on ABC1. You can check it out here. The documentary focused on the work of Fiona Stanley and her belief that our children and young people are [...]

This is what it takes

A picture paints a thousand words. This picture shows the web of relationships that were required for SU to see a new Family Festival launch at Carnavon this last school holidays.
Athena SU’s Family Festivals Coordinator and Team Leader of the Carnavon program writes;
A great team worked very hard to deliver a quality program….. The personal [...]

Find me an Evangelist

One of the groups that SU work closely with here in Western Australia is OAC. OAC’s great strength is equipping people for evangelism and developing evangelists. For those of you wondering what an evangelist and evangelism is let me give my short explanation.
Evangelism is helping people understand who Jesus is and allowing them the opportunity [...]

The last sacred cow

Let me start my post by declaring that I am a sports nut, have always been one and the Olympics are paradise for me. I’ll be trying to watch as much as possible over the next few weeks. In the lead up to the Olympics more and more people are posting articles related to this [...]

When I grow up

when I grow up
I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star
I wanna be in movies
These lyrics have been going through my head over the last couple of weeks.
First of all let me apologise. These are lyrics from a “Pussycat dolls” song that is being played on the radio at the moment and does not represent [...]

Cool people start their own charities

Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision) is quoted in this article as saying; “There are 700,000 not-for-profit organisations and the latest fad today is under-30s wanting to start their own not-for-profit equivalent of what in my day was starting a rock band.”
Cool! This is good news, I have always wanted to be Kurt Cobain (Sorry [...]

Money can buy you happiness

I spent last week cooking on SU’s performing arts camp. It was a great experience that I will post more on later. It did mean that I have not got around to posting for a week or two but I did come across an interesting article Spending on Happiness
The article suggests that money can make [...]

You can’t download character

It is 9 years old now, but there is a scene in the film, ’The Matrix’ where the main characters (Neo and Trinity) are running from the bad guys (Agent Smith and friends). They are at the top of a building where there only method of escape is a helicopter. Neo asks Trinity; “Can you fly this?”, [...]

I dont believe in Christian leadership

Well this is what I said at a leadership training seminar on the weekend. I also said that I don’t believe in Christian medicine.
While I believe that the character of a doctor or a physio may be influenced or guided by their Christian faith. The skills they apply are not unique to Christians.
I don’t believe [...]

Mark

Mark Brown is currently the CEO of Bible Society New Zealand. He was CEO of SU New Zealand before that and pre-that he was part of the scene here in Western Australia having been involved with Youthcare and a variety of other local ministries. Mark is pretty passionate about seeing people engaging with the Bible [...]