The race to get our first assignment (a church history essay) in on time has begun! Mine is on the sixth century Irish monk, Columba, & Marty’s is on the development of church government from 0-500AD.
1750 words on events and the people who influenced the church as we know it today!
So we have frequented facebook for research, and searched at the bottom of coffee cups - but that has surprisingly taught us very little!
We have had dreams about priests with pitchforks, although, come to think about it, that was probably more due to procrastinating on Age of Empires then our essays!
We have read and read and read endless amount of words that are meant to be helpful, but just make no sense. As Marty said last night: “another day, another million words”.
So, it definitely feels like a race – probably more like a marathon, with a 50m sprint for the finish line :)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
New Church
We are going through the process of finding a new church at the moment. Neither of us have really done this before, & well let’s just say we don’t like it! It’s weird visiting churches & just checking them out. You end up analyzing what they do & therefore trying not to be to critical & judgmental. Ironically the first church we went to had a sermon on “stop dating the church”, so that was a good start in helping us approach this in a healthy way!
One good thing I suppose from this though, is that it makes me realise what it would be like for someone visiting a church.
One good thing I suppose from this though, is that it makes me realise what it would be like for someone visiting a church.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Update
Hi guys, just a quick post to say we are going well. We have been pretty busy with study. Also I have been helping out building the new campus a little bit, making handrails.
I've slightly torn my hamstring so wont be going to footy training for a couple of weeks.
It would be great if you could pray for me as I try to do this assignment, it's taking me ages to get anywhere! And for patience as I wait for my leg to heal.
Missing you guys......
I've slightly torn my hamstring so wont be going to footy training for a couple of weeks.
It would be great if you could pray for me as I try to do this assignment, it's taking me ages to get anywhere! And for patience as I wait for my leg to heal.
Missing you guys......
Thursday, February 11, 2010
STUDY!!!!
I can't believe it, I just spent the last 2.5hrs in the library! I've never done that before, except for those times at school when we used to sneak into the library and play Doom :)
We have a church history essay due on the 5th of march so that's what we are both working on at the moment. Jess is in her element - "this is what I was made for" - were her words. I've got a head ache most of the time so might need to get some glasses if it keeps up!
Otherwise it's great fun learning about lots of different things, ie Episcopal forms of church government, and the role of Columba in the British and Irish churches.
On a more lighter note - My first footy training will be tonight, hopefully they will be nice to me :)
Our thoughts and prayers are with Dave, Evthoxia and the boys as well.
How awesome and complex is our great God!!?? It's amazing learning more about his sovereign rule of this world and a challenge to trust in him always as hard things in life come.
Missing Tas a bit - but all is going well.
Marty. :)
We have a church history essay due on the 5th of march so that's what we are both working on at the moment. Jess is in her element - "this is what I was made for" - were her words. I've got a head ache most of the time so might need to get some glasses if it keeps up!
Otherwise it's great fun learning about lots of different things, ie Episcopal forms of church government, and the role of Columba in the British and Irish churches.
On a more lighter note - My first footy training will be tonight, hopefully they will be nice to me :)
Our thoughts and prayers are with Dave, Evthoxia and the boys as well.
How awesome and complex is our great God!!?? It's amazing learning more about his sovereign rule of this world and a challenge to trust in him always as hard things in life come.
Missing Tas a bit - but all is going well.
Marty. :)
Friday, February 5, 2010
O Week Ends
Well for many of you the idea of O Week may evoke some very exciting images: No work, free bands, free beer, no sleep, students running around everywhere…
Well let’s just say our O Week has been very different: family BBQ’s, study skills, talks on hygiene & what is appropriate to wear, dining etiquette, dinner with the other married couples (Newtown Thai of course)…
But one thing is the same - Library tours! Which I very much enjoyed – it’s just the smell of the books, & being surrounded by so much good stuff - it’s very special & a little overwhelming :)
So it was an interesting experience & now we are straight into lectures.
Well let’s just say our O Week has been very different: family BBQ’s, study skills, talks on hygiene & what is appropriate to wear, dining etiquette, dinner with the other married couples (Newtown Thai of course)…
But one thing is the same - Library tours! Which I very much enjoyed – it’s just the smell of the books, & being surrounded by so much good stuff - it’s very special & a little overwhelming :)
So it was an interesting experience & now we are straight into lectures.
Monday, February 1, 2010
O week begins!
Hey, well this week is O week, we start with a dinner tonight then the rest of the week is meeting new people, hearing the rules and going to study skills classes. (not much fun apparently)
Last Sat we went surfing down at bondi and got totally roasted! We didnt think the UV rays were that bad in syd, compared to tassie. But it was lots of fun. Sunday we went to "church by the bridge" and met Paul Dale and some other nice people. Its in kirabilli so we checked out luna park after that and found a good fishing spot for king fish! Later we had a bbq dinner back at college and watched the tennis outside on the big screen.
Well thats about it from me,
Marty.
Last Sat we went surfing down at bondi and got totally roasted! We didnt think the UV rays were that bad in syd, compared to tassie. But it was lots of fun. Sunday we went to "church by the bridge" and met Paul Dale and some other nice people. Its in kirabilli so we checked out luna park after that and found a good fishing spot for king fish! Later we had a bbq dinner back at college and watched the tennis outside on the big screen.
Well thats about it from me,
Marty.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sydney!!
We have finally arrived in Sydney! After a very smooth sailing over the Bass Straight & a long hot drive on the Hume we are here & mostly unpacked. We were able to celebrate Australia Day in style down at the Rocks with Gluten Free pide, Ash Grunwald, & then trying to find some New Town Thai we actually ended up in Balmain (North East of the city) – oops! We will soon hopefully get our bearings, although we have got lost every time we try & go somewhere so far!
We don’t have any College stuff until Monday, so we are just going to keep settling in and resting after a very full on few weeks!
Marty & Jess
We don’t have any College stuff until Monday, so we are just going to keep settling in and resting after a very full on few weeks!
Marty & Jess
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