TCH Australia get-together

We returned from our trip over east for the TCH Australia get-together last Sunday night.  We had a fantastic and encouraging time.

As a GC we have been debriefing on it over the last few days and we were all struck by similar things – which is surely a sign of the Spirit at work.

The hospitality and love shown by our Tasmanian hosts was lovely; generous and warm-hearted.  They opened their homes and their lives to us.  And we ate lots of splendid food.  In fact, food (as ever in TCH, perhaps) was a recurring them of the week.

Their sense of common purpose, both within individual households and across the households in the Gospel Communities was clear.  They were a people who were organising themselves and ordering their lives around their mission.  Several in our GC, for example, were simply impressed at people upping sticks and moving to have proximity with others in the GC.

It was great to have Jonny and Ruth Woodrow with us, here in Perth for a few days, and then in Tasmania.  Everyone was particularly struck by the distinction they have made between ‘reactive’ and ‘proactive’ mission.  The whole Ellenbrook GC  found it  a particularly helpful way of thinking about our mission and it certainly is prompting some good, concrete discussions.  More on them in another post.

As always with these kinds of events, it was all fairly intense but most of us had a very pleasant comedown by stopping for a few nights in Melbourne.

As we debriefed last night, it was exciting.  I’m optimistic that, as hoped and prayed for, the get-together will have proved to be a significant milestone here in Ellenbrook.  It just seems that, on a number of fronts, some good stuff seems to be, well, happening. 

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