Camps Camps and more Camps.
In the past week or so I have been on two different youth camps. The profiles of the camps were as follows.

Camp 1 – NCCCCCCYC (North Coast Christian Youth Convention)

Highlights:
– Seeing the Lismore crew again.
– Matty and Ben’s Antics.
– Jonny finally getting some Ball time!
– The Dutch Oven frequency.
– No veggies the entire camp.
– Seeing Nanna and Grandpa Afterwards.
– Learning that True wisdom is found in Christ

Lowlights:
– Leaving
– No veggies the entire camp.
– Ben’s ankle
– CocoPops, Sausages, Cornflakes, Tomato Sauce, Hash Browns and milk for breakfast one morning. (All at once)

Camp 2 – Outbreak!

Highlights:
– Speed Boat ride
– Bus driver becoming a Christian!(Go George!)
– Lovely mountains
– Almost Getting crushed by a tree falling across the road in front of us on the way home!
– The food
– The Y-Fronts! (name of the band that played. Man they had a good bass player!)
– Helping Mark pray to receive Christ as his Lord and Saviour.
– Dancing with Hayley :).

Lowlights:
– Getting knocked out of Perseverance Idol by the Candyman! 🙁
– Getting up at 6.15 every morning to cook breakfast.
– Going to bed at about 11.30 every night after sweeping and mopping the floors.
– Uncomfy bus seats.

All in all, two great camps, good to have a bit of a break from uni. And I will leave you with this. Your favourite bloggin bro Jonny, (according to the last poll) holding up his ball. He had plenty of ball time this camp, the cry of the camp was “Jonny, where is your ball”, the cooks would ask, “Jonny where is your ball”, during games and other various activities, “Jonny where is your ball”. Ohh yes, he did have ball time. Jonny Got lots and lots of BALL TIME!

Well my camera got its official “breaking in” yesterday at the Mt Cootha Botanic Gardens. I got some great shots with it. One of which was shrunk to blog size and is seen below. I went with the creator, maintainer and entertainer of Home Page Fighter.

The events of the day included:
– Sweet talking the reception staff at the gardens to leave our bikes in their office.
– Crashing a retired performing bands party and eating their cake (They were lovely elderly ladies).
– Walking
– Seeing snakes, lizards, birds, turtles, bugs, plants, fish, etc.
– Lunch at the good old “soup hole” (a secret location in the gardens .)mmmmm…. taste that soup.

All in all, God makes some really beautiful stuff, and it was a great day!

Jonny is yet to blog in quite some time. These lapses by the Bloggin Bro havent seemed to upset the internet public. The latest poll indicates that his popularity is way up there with Bert (whom nobody knows and who probably does not exist). It seems as if there has been some sort of error on my Poll results though, coming in at a meager 0 votes. “Error?!!” I hear you cry, “You are the worst blogger ever!”. Well we will soon see about that. I may get a vote yet. Then who will be laughing!!! **insert evil laugh here**

Time is ticking down to when I have to give my 1 John talk. 1 John is a very interesting book with some very important stuff to say. When I am finished my preparation I will post my talk notes.

I went out to dinner with Jo and Scott to a place called “Malay Corner”. It was awsome! I would have to say my favourite things about the night (in order) were:

1. The crazy TV show they were playing (on Tv) in the background that involved rolling bodies, umbrellas, water, mechanical sliding chairs, and a crazy gameshow host.
2. The GIANT Coke. (pictured below)
3. The delicious fried rice.
4. Whipping out the digital camera in a resturant. 🙂

mmmmm.. fried rice…

Bloggin Bro’s is seemingly under new management. Perhaps the name should be changed to “Bloggin Wives of Bloggin Bro’s”. Or perhaps not. At any rate, the movie clip was funny and Jonny hasn’t blogged in a while so Hayley’s blogs did serve to liven things up a bit anyway. We need more of those Jonny blogs.

I have been given the task of talking at Nightlife on 1 John chapters 4 and 5. This is a rather large section of scripture and its not exactly the most straight forward section either. I am praying that God will help me understand it the way he wants it understood and that I will be able to help others understand it also. Please pray for me if you are that way inclined.

I have recently purchased a “Canon PowerShot A520” digital camera. It seemingly takes some pretty nice shots, without having too many manual controls to make things confusing. I have been working on taking some panorama’s today. You can see one of them below. The quality isn’t great because my storage isn’t great, but they are just the constraints of my blog at present. It is a pic of our pond. Well by “our” I mean “Hayley’s” pond, there are some tadpoles in there at the moment. Ohh.. How exciting. The proud parents of little froggy’s how wonderful!!

The Kingdom of heaven is like ….

A sower that sows seed that falls in 4 different places. On the path, where the birds got them. On the rocky ground, where they didn’t have enough soil so they sprang up quickly but then withered away. Some fell among thorns, where they grew but the thorns grew up and choked them. The rest of it fell on good soil where it grew up and produced heaps of grain.

This is likened to the kingdom of God because when someone hears about Jesus they often fall into the above categories:
– they fall on the path, i.e., satan comes and snatches the message of Jesus away and they dont care about Jesus really at all.
– they fall on the rocky ground, i.e., the message of Jesus sounds really good at first, but then is quickly forgotten about.
– they fall amoung the thorns, i.e., the message of Jesus is taken to heart, believed, known, but ineffective in changing the persons life because they are too busy with everything else. Computers, school, uni, job, family, friends.
– they fall on good soil, i.e., they believe the message of Jesus and it changes the way they live, so much so that they become one who loves God and puts him first above all other things.

The questions then of course become:

Have you heard it?
Which are you?
Which do you want to be?

hmmm.. interesting thinking… challenging thinking?

It seems as if there has been an intrusion on the blog site. I deny the use of any pink apron, and I am sure other bloggin bro will back me up on that!!