Mission in Action

Steve Timmis’s new look for his Ozzie tour

TCH founder Steve Timmis is coming to Australia on Saturday for a couple of weeks and he’s basically touring the country.

He starts and ends with us in Perth and we’re looking forward to it after five months away from the UK. We’ve missed Sheffield and The Crowded House a lot so it will be good to have that contact again. It’s going to be a really busy couple of weeks, but we’ve pencilled in time to spend with him just chilling out. Steve’s first gig will be a brunch with our fledgling household group (which is VERY fledgling) and that will be a big encouragement.

In true Steve style he’s going to Moore College in Sydney where no doubt he’ll throw one type of cat amongst one type of pigeons, before going to Melbourne for the Forge Festival where he’ll throw another type of cat amongst a completely different type of pigeon. I was going to go with him but work precludes that. Oh well, it will be interesting to be flies on those walls.

The good thing about Steve however is that the relationships he’s fostered over the years with blokes who run small missional groups in Tassie and Sydney won’t get left behind just because the big boys have jumped onto the bandwagon. No losing little church perspective by flying with the stratosphere boys for Steve.

written by Steve

Sorry about the delay in blogging, but life got a bit busy. The thing that was overshadowing me the last few weeks was the Easter Camp I was talking at last weekend. I did a series on 2Peter – Everyday Spirituality -founded on the verse “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness.”

The downside was prepping four talks when I had to do it either first thing in the morning (5-7) or last thing at night (10-11:30), and never when I was in the mood. The upside was getting to got to Albany for the camp (the camp itself was pretty good too – Ed). Albany has to be my favourite place in Australia – 420 kms from Perth and 420kms from Perth summer. Summer in Albany is always cooler, indeed it was only about 22 or 23 degrees C down there – and positively cold at night. Perth’s summer has been five months long and going strong (Englanders reading this be careful what you wish for – Ed) and it is driving us stir-crazy.

Albany is the oldest settlement in WA, has a beautiful but lethal coastline, and is full of old houses (old for WA anyway). Easter Camp in Albany is a bit of an institution. It has been running for years and the camp leader couple this year met at camp. That their 20 year old son was at camp tells you it’s been around a while.
More blogs soon

written by Steve