The next six months will be interesting. I have resigned my job after eighteen months – I was only working two days per week there this past six months – to help out at the church I used to work at and who partner with The Local, Parkerville Baptist Church. At shortish notice the Senior Pastor has taken six months leave, so I will be employed there two days a week to be involved in the preaching for six months. This also gives The Local and Parkerville a good opportunity to cement their support for one another. I see it as a good opportunity to help Parkerville look at mission from our perspective and vice versa.
We’re also looking at networking with a couple of other groups at the moment too, all involved in, or keen to be involved in missional church planting. I have identified a couple of couples with promise also and am coaching a few blokes each month as they look to do church planting.
On top of that two church planting friends, Rory Shiner and Nigel Gordon, are in the process of establishing a church planters network to resource people doing all sorts of missional plants. It is called 121 degrees (not the temperature it gets to in Perth in summer – Ed) because that is how far Perth is latitudinally from Jerusalem. It’s about fidelity to the historical/biblical gospel and faithful contextualisation here in our fair city. Good name huh? Wish I’d come up with it, but it was one of those other two brainiacs.
The Local is going along well, getting on with life together, looking for missional opportunities and ploughing our way through TCH values. We’re kinda glad that they are aspirational, because we are very much “L-plating” it at the moment.
Jill’s psych practice is really doing well – the two days work has been a really positive experience for her and she is finding that there is no shortage of work. The area we live in has a severe shortage of allied health professionals, so she could probably work five days and it still wouldn’t make a dent. We are enjoying working out how to do life and The Local together. The good thing about my job change is how it literally does make our lives local – an oddity in a suburban sprawl like Perth.
If you want to apply for my old job you can always do that (they’re making it five days a week from now). Great boss, good conditions, worthy project. What more could you ask? Oh, you’ve got ’til Monday.
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