community

At the last gathering, Jeff shared his dream for his ministry at the school. Here’s my notes.

Four years ago he felt the call to the local community. So in turn, he offered his services as a youth worker to the local secondary school in Noble Park. It was for three days, no pay and was accepted by the school - despite concerns about religion, which were worked through to the satisfaction of both sides.

Yesterday morning I took Maddy down to the Anzac Day service. In a sense we took the easy route and went to Berwick whose service was at 11am, rather than Narre Warren’s dawn service, although I plan to go to one there in future.

I can’t say I enjoyed it, although in a way I did, because of the things it made me think about.

Community: I am lousy at estimating crowd numbers, but I would guess that there was at least a thousand people there yesterday and that was apart from all those who participated in the march itself. And it was all about community.

It was interesting to discover that on this Good Friday that the leaders of Australia’s main denominational churches had the theme of being alone in the services today.

It got me thinking as I was out with the company of our dog and my own thoughts. I am never truly alone. Even when I am by myself, I always have the presence of God with me. That presence resides in my spirit and was evident during my walk, through the wind in the trees and the flight of a butterfly, which flittered across my path for a time.

But this has only been made possible through the sacrifice that Jesus made.

I read this on Seth Godin’s blog a while ago and it resonated with me.