Bound for Menergy

A further time of growth is coming up for Peter in more ways than one. The Menergy 2014 gathering is set for the first weekend in November, a time and place for men to discover the fire within them. The pictures are just a forerunner, last Sunday the Menergy committee, tribal group leaders and facilitators came together for a meeting and finished with a promotional photo shoot outside in the street. That attracted a bit of attention, especially with the antique fire engine. It was a fun and productive time with a great bunch of men with passion for life.
You can learn more about Menergy 2014 here.

Charles Marries Hennessy

We wish to post yesterday's wedding of our friend Brieley wedding Joshua. It was a relaxed celebration and we wish Brieley and Josh a wonderful future together.

A Great Legacy

We wish to acknowledge a loss to our world of a wonderful man of God. We knew Graham and Ann when they lived near Whittlesea and supported our local youth group when our children were teenagers. Graham was offered a position at Camp Coolamatong after that, and he and Ann, with their children Kaitlin and Jake, left our part of the world and established themselves there. Barb went there as camp cook about ten years ago and caught up with Graham then.

Scripture Union went through a financial squeeze during their time at Camp Coolamatong. Graham was instrumental in keeping the camp location going. He and his son Jake raised $45,000 riding 500Km, each on a unicycle! 

Then in 2011, Peter met Graham at a chaplaincy orientation. Yes, both were new appointees for the school year, Peter at Whittlesea Primary and Graham at Eagle Point Primary. At the chaplaincy conference that year, Peter and Graham were able to catch up and share how they and their families were travelling. Nice memories. So when we heard that Graham had died from a brain tumour (3 February 2013) we were deeply shocked and saddened. Our society at large has lost a great man and we wish to post this memory in honour of our great friend.

Camp Cooking

This has proved to be a very busy month if the number of blogs are any indication. It has culminated in a five day camp where we cooked for sixty young people. This meant that we had to spend many hours before that figuring out quantities of food to suit the agreed menu for that many people. We had not done this kind of thing for about ten years so it was a little scary. It was a short notice decision and now after the event we felt glad we accepted. We agreed that God's providing hand was over this decision. The pictures below are just a sampling of how it went. Sometimes we were just too busy to think about snapping away. The location was the Coolamatong Farm Camp just south of Bairnsdale, Victoria, four hours drive east from Melbourne. The campers were under the Scripture Union banner, called MAD Camp, a coming together of many secondary college kids and their leader/mentors using the theme of circus. It was very well done and plenty of fun.

Fresh eggs every day and a place to toss food scraps

Peter's batch of 84 Anzacs

Simple fruit platter

Toasted sandwiches for 60 plus is definitely a logistical challenge

Our clean kitchen

We learned they were called vitamin J...

A Canadian Jeweler

As part of the most memorable family reunion last July in Canada, Barb's brother Chris made a ring for each of us (most of us who came) and for the women, a pendant each (with of without one of the rings). It depended on how close, relationally and generationally speaking, one was for a ring and pendant. Chris surprised us with his craftsmanship. Over the last few years he had been learning to cast metal jewelry and it was his personal project to make a commemorative ring (plus pendant) to mark the occasion of the first ever reunion. The design of the cast silver pendant had four maple leaves framed in a square with a central gem setting. Each ring had the same maple leaf design as shown below. He had asked for our finger sizes months prior to this. We were all very chuffed.

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