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Dear Helena and Dean and Friends



Well we couldn't wait to register.



Not at all sure how much time we'll be able to spend with y'all via this site you but we're grateful for your initiative and hope we can be of some fellowshipful benefit. We look fwd to catching up with y'all and sharing our journey over the past few years since relocating to OZ.



Briefly:



Juliette: is concentrating on the boys this year. She will continue with One In Messiah celebrations; teaching, script writing and choreographing. She is a great baker and makes a mean spinach pie!!



David: Instead of accepting the art specialist position at a local school (where he taught most of the art programm for 2005), turned down this seemingly 'hand in glove' offer to remain flexible for increased ministry travelling this year.



BEARING GIFTS: We are gradually developing worship watches in our home, have commenced discussions with the worship leaders at our church to develop the same and have been given responsibility for the worship component for movement, flags interpretive etc., in the church we attend. we are looking for a couple of leaders to mentor here. David is assisting with 'dressing' the sanctuary. He is in the middle of designing a sculpture for the Pesach-Easter season.



We'll assist to produce two major celebrations, Pesach and Sukkot with OIMC, whilst sending out a couple of teams to share creative ministries in Thailand with the Rahab ministry folk amongst other groups.



We will be teaching at the ICDF conference in Malaysia in July. Looking fwd to catching up with dance friends there.



Samuel-Jacob and Judah: Samuel is 5yrs now and Judah just turned four. Both at school and enjoying this immensley. Samuel, tall and lanky, is sooooo lateral in his thinking processes, loves art, creating and choreographing with DETAIL. He has some difficulty with focussing but is learning strategies for this-remind you of anyone?? He draws almost non-stop, recording feelings, events and impressions with what I think is a prophetic slant. Judah is more stocky in build, a physical lad, with a precise mind, is self-motivated with a STRONG desire 'to get on with and complete the task'. He has a bit of a temper-like his dad who is endeavouring to teach him strategies for this!! Both boys love the water; Samuel starting free-diving to a depth of fourteen feet this summer and Judah can now cross the great divide-the five metre width of his grand parents pool!



We love them dearly, they exhaust us continually, not just with their antics but their laughing as well!!! And, we are just amazed daily even, at how God made sponges in HIS own image.



If possible on such a site and when we learn 'HOW', we'll download a clip from the 2005, Sukkot celebration here in Perth, Australia. Did you know the actor Errol Flynn was an Australian? He left Australia in his early twenties, I think.



love from



david and juliette haddy plus Samuel-Jacob 5 yrs and Judah ben David 4yrs

Greetings, dear readers!



I was talking with a friend the other day. "I'm on the worship team at my church," he said. "Really, I replied. "So am I." "Yeah? What do you sing or play?"



Which opened the door to the petting of one of my personal peeves...



Who's on YOUR Worship Team? Or as I like to call it, "the greater worship team." Is the worship team at your church only those of a musical persuasion? What about the sound folks, the overhead flippers/PowerPoint poppers, readers, dramatists, environment folks (from flowers or trees to cloth hangs or full-fledged scenery backdrops, banner makers/movers, dancers, mimes, or (dare I say it) clowns? Can't any or all of these be considered as part of the team that is involved directly or indirectly with the leadership of worship in a congregation?



And that could easily lead to a side discussion about who the worship leader is at any given moment in time within a worship service. If the dramatist is involved in moving the congregation from one stop to another for a particular worship "set", is the dramatist not leading worship for the moment? If a dancer or mime is in front of the congregation, not just following along with the music, but ministering the song and moving the congregation beyond where the words alone might move, is not the dancer or mime leading worship? Would not the music leader be wise to be sensitive enough to allow the one leading to bring their leadership to a graceful close?



Thoughts? Ideas?

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I thought it might be interesting to hear about ministry mottos, and what you have to say about them, because if you have one--it expresses the essence of your ministry philosophy.





Since becoming a banner maker in the 80's, mine has been "more is more" (you'll see it under my avatar!)



Davidic worship to me has always been about extravagant worship....the kind of worship that is all-consuming, using everything appropriate at hand to give glory to the King, and holding back nothing. That means lavish, beautiful settings, glorious garmenting, and spectacular banners. Gold, jewels, anything rich and opulent that reflects the magnificence of God.



There is a whole movement in christianity that espouses the "less is more" philosophy. Stark white walls, little symbology or ornamenation of the worship space. Plain dressing, almost apologetic of anything beautiful. That is NOT Davidic worship. One only has to read the scriptures about the beauty of tabernacle, the lavishness of the temple of Solomon, and the supernatural magnificence of the heavenly Tabernacle in Revelations to see that when God does interior decorating, He pulls out all the stops and goes for the big :wow:



So yes, my motto is....."more is more" ! :menorah:

Greetings,

I am delighted that this has been started. I am needing to make a flag that represents the Catechesis of the Good shepherd atrium that has been started at our cathedral. One of the children in the atrium has designed a flag in during her work time on Tuesday evenings and it was so good that I would like to make every attempt to finish a usable flag that could be held and processed with as a representation for the Catechesis during the mass on Sunday. I don't exactly know where to begin and I would love to have some advice.



Dnjneb

Baba Ghannouj (Eggplant Dip)



1 large round eggplant (aubergine)

2 or 3 cloves of garlic

60 milliliters (3 oz., 4 Tbs.) tahina

60 milliliters (2 oz., 4 Tbs.) lemon juice

salt, red pepper

olive oil

chopped parsley

slices of red bell pepper to garnish



Cook the eggplant in a hot oven or on a fork over the flame of a gas stove. When it is well cooked through and the skin is blackened, douse with cold water, peel and chop into small pieces. Mash two or three cloves of garlic to a paste with about the same volume of salt. Add eggplant, mash to a smooth consistency and blend the tahina and lemon juice to make the Arab version of this dish; omit the tahina for the Turkish version. Serve in a bowl with little olive oil on top and garnish with chopped parsley, red pepper slices and a dusting of red pepper. Serves five.