Ray Gingerich’s visit: violent God and pacifist Jesus?

 Over the weekend, me and Nicole went to three meetings where Mennonite scholar Ray Gingerich was speaking. His most interesting and challenging talk for me was the Sunday night one at Scripture Union House, Mt Hawthorn. It was a fundraiser for the Pine Gap 6, who are facing jail for doing a ‘Citizens’ Inspection’ of [...]

Photos from the final PAF meeting, 1 April 2007

Thanks to Heather for these photos.

PAF disbands

On Sunday 1 April we met for the last time as a church.
Over the last few months, it has become clearer that God is leading us in different directions. The Prangnells are leaving for Indonesia where Dave has a job. The Hobbys have moved to Nedlands where they want to plant a church. The Schillings [...]

25th February 2007 Sunday meeting

We farewelled Jeremiah and Eirene Coburn from the Bruderhof yesterday. They are returning to New York after spending six weeks in Perth.

Thanks to Marcia for this photo.

Sunday 18th February 2007 – Does God still speak from pillars of cloud?

There were twelve of us meeting together yesterday morning. The readings focused around the transfiguration of Jesus, and Moses’ veiled face as he came down from the mountain.
Tim asked the prophetic question that struck at the heart of what I’ve been thinking of for the last two weeks – ‘Do we believe that God still [...]

John Schilling’s dedication 31 December 2006

Meeting report : 10 December 2006

We met at Don and Marianne’s house in Maddington this week.
The main discussion was about the possiblility of helping Bessie, the director of Oikos ministries to come over to the Anabaptist Conference in January. I felt it would be important to have her there, as she can encourage people who are interested in beginning house [...]

Meeting report : 3 December 2006

We met at Tim’s house in Huntingdale, and were lucky enough to have three visitors – a German couple, Daniel and Katerine, and Kristo Newall. One of the things that came out of the discussion was a desire to improve our prayer life.
In the top photo are Brad, Katerine and Daniel. In the bottom phot [...]