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My musings, writings, observations, ideas, & thoughts about God, Life, and following Jesus in Suburbia.
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St. Vinnies - This Time it’s Personal - really?
You may know I have previously had a rant about the quality of the food that the local St. Vinnies hands out to those in need. However, I have just seen the latest ad campaign that they will be running and want to share it here and let you know that while I think it is great, the campaign might raise funds and tickle the tear-ducts and wallets of Mr & Mrs Aussie Consumer, but that means nothing if the services you are providing are given with the same thoughtfulness and effort that the fund raising is made with.
As a Catholic charity, I would hope that the main motivation of the group is to serve and love like Jesus - and not contribute to the bottom line of the Catholic church (or that matter any church group, I’m not trying to pick on the Catholic church especially!). (more…)
Posted in Australia, Media, Social Justice, TV Ad |
No Comments »Come On!
Hey all, please take the time to click on the lips to the right of here and support me to shut up for the Homeless! So far, I have raised $2 - can’t we do better than that! Please support this cause!
Click here - http://www.everydayhero.com.au/Neal_Taylor
Posted in Australia, Fund raiser, Social Justice, church life, human rights, missional |
No Comments »Needed… Can you help?
More tomorrow when I am not so tired….
There is an urgent need for a center in Croydon, Melbourne with a full commercial kitchen and large dining area to service and serve the homeless, poor and lonely. This centre needs to be able to provide a place out of the elements, that churches and others can use each night to help ease the needs of these folk.
Anyone help? We need a place to call our own and the $ to make the dream a reality. Surely there are folk out there who have the resources for something like this, rather than financing a new church building somewhere?
If you can help, go to the contact page!
Posted in Australia, Fund raiser, Social Justice, croydon |
No Comments »HUSH for Homelessness
Mission Australia are running this very cool event next month, HUSH for the Homeless, inviting us to experience what it’s like to be voiceless!They are challenging us all to experience what it is like to be voiceless, by not speaking for an hour (or more!) on Wednesday 2 July 2008, and to seek sponsorship for the silence!
Tonight, as temperatures drop and winter takes hold, almost 100,000 Australians have no place to call home. Of these people, almost 50% are yet to have their 25th birthday and 10,000 are children aged under 12! This is why Mission Australia is running HUSH for Homelessness; an event to raise money to assist homeless men, women and children across the country.
HUSH for Homelessness symbolises the ‘invisible’ and ‘voiceless’ lives that homeless Australians lead.
All donations raised will go to support the work that Mission Australia do around the country with the homeless, including the provision of crisis and transitional accomodation and support services.
I have registered! Please check out my HUSH page here. I encourage you all to join, as an individual, or group and support this effort for an organisation that is taking what the Aussie Gov’t (and for that matter many churches) talk about and make a difference by doing something.
Go here to register and find out some more information! And please, if you do register - raise some sponsors!
Posted in Australia, Compassion, Fund raiser, Personal, Social Justice, Web, church life, life |
No Comments »Which Way Home? - Rudd Gov’t releases Green Paper on Homelessness
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched the Federal Government’s national homelessness Green Paper on 22 May 2008. The paper, Which Way Home? takes forward the consultations on the future of housing and homelessness from the Australia 2020 Summit last month.
Posted in Australia, Politics, Social Justice |
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