• Come On!

    NiallJune 27, 2008

    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 |
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    I would appreciate your prayers and thoughts…

    NiallJune 14, 2008

    When I started the year and began to study the course I am doing, it was planned that Forge Victoria would continue to pay me half-a-day a week to do graphics and manage the website for Forge. But, for many reasons beyond my control, and I might add, very unhappily, I was told earlier that they could not afford to do so. The problem was, I had budgeted for the money, it was going to pay the college fees for the year!

    So, I found myself not long into my course with no income. I applied for and now receive Austudy - the Aussie Gov’t’s financial, ahhh, “contribution” to help you through the course. This is of course for a full-time course and with a family. So, since then we have been getting by and I have been busy searching for a part-time job to help pay the bills and keep the wolf from the door!

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    Posted in Diploma Coursework, Family, Fund raiser, Personal, church life, croydon, life, prayer |
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    HUSH for Homelessness

    NiallJune 3, 2008

    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 |
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