Another video for you to watch today. It think I’ll let it speak for itself.

The Girl Effect Website

also, it is quite beautiful typographically (which is entirely not the point, but still interesting)

Tags: aid, girls, poverty, the girl effect

14. For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15. from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17. so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18. may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19. and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21. to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Tags: Bible, blessing, Ephesians

Visit Sacred Space and while I’m on about wandering around the prayer/quiet thing, Jacob over at Sensus Divinitatis is starting a series on quiet times, which I still maintain is a crap name.

And then there’s this funky little java ap to make beautiful word clouds, Wordle

And wow. This guy is selling ‘his life’ on ebay… I’ve often wondered what it would be like to just up and move to somewhere entirely new with no-one you knew.

Thanks to Hammo, pretty sure two of those links came via you.

And lastly.

The Kingdom of God is like Dragonflies

Tags: Design, prayer, sacred space, word cloud, Words

I have made some allusions to heading overseas shortly. We leave on July 2nd for the Solomon Islands, where I grew up, for the Pijin Bible dedication - which is what my parents have been involved in for a very long time. Geoff and I are overseas for 10 days, the rest of the crew are there for more like 17 days.

I haven’t spent much time yet pondering changes and the curiosities of going back to where leaving was so difficult. I will however spend a good portion of time thinking about it and writing about it. I hope to share as much as possible.

In the meantime if you are so inclined, please read the below and pray for the situation and for the team heading over.

Much thanks, she who remembers again that she is a third culture kid grown up.

Bec

Dear Friends,

In a week’s time we will be on the way to Solomon Islands. To think that the Pijin Bible will be dedicated in 11 days time is rather exciting.

The ship with the Pijin Bibles, Coral Islander II, is on schedule to arrive on 3rd of July.
We will have around 40 copies of the Bible hand carried in so there will be no problems with having the Bible there for the formal dedication.

Please keep praying that we will be able to clear the Bibles from the port on Friday 4th of July so that they will be available for sale at the trade and cultural show on Monday the 7th, and so that we can travel over to Malaita with sufficient copies as planned on 8th of July.

One thing that is concerning us is that the workers of Solomon Telekom are on strike. As the telephone system breaks down it’s not being repaired. Already my key colleague has no phone/email at her home - very inconvenient. The potential to prevent air travel is causing us some anxiety. Please pray that they will be able to solve their issues and that communications essential for air travel won’t breakdown.

Thanks for praying
Gerry and Melinda

Tags: bible dedication, missions trip, pijin bible, return to the Solomons

Today I discovered that my neighbourly (and I really do literally mean neighbour) op-shop is selling earth-greetings cards, it’s a peculiar opshop in that it sells some new things as well as standard opshop things. Earth Greetings is Interesting in it’s philosophy, I not 100% sold on all their designs, but some of them a quite lovely, and hey - it’s Australian based. That’s another win on the environmental factor.

Tags: cards, Design, environmental, opshop