My wife Alice is an amazing writer!

We’ve both been writing together over at Practising Hospitality for almost a year now, and the writing that she has done for that site has been fantastic! Her latest post titled “Soul Food” is just one example of the many great posts she has written.

This year she has decided to launch her own site where she is going to focus much more on her passion for food. It’s called “Alice In Her Wonderland” and you should go and check it out now!

I designed this site based on the Standard Theme [Affiliate Link] and included a few modifications including moving the navigation bar next to the header. I also used MailChimp (for the first time) to create an email newsletter that will send out new posts via email. You can subscribe to newsletter here. I really enjoyed setting up the email newsletter via MailChimp and I’m sure that I’ll be using MailChimp for future projects.

So visit “Alice In Her Wonderland” and subscribe today. You won’t regret it!

The “Church Is” project was an interactive animation that was made as part of a Christian art exhibit in June 2011 (You can read more about the project here).

The project was based on a survey of 31 people. All the participants remained anonymous and gave permission for their answers to be used. The 31 people may or may not be Christian, but I would assume that most of them are as the majority of participants were people in my circle of friends or friends of friends. You can view a selection of the responses in the project itself, but for interests sake I thought I would publish all of the answers given.

These are the answers to the fourth and final question, What is one word you would use to describe Church?

• Christ
• Jesus
• God
• fellowship
• hope
• Heavenly.
• Jesus
• Jesus
• God
• relationship-centred

Continue reading below the break for the rest of the responses.

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These videos were made to encourage university students to think more about how God could use them to serve during their holidays.

You can read more about the three weeks of serving advertising here.

This video was shown during Public Meetings

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These videos were made to encourage university students to think more about how God could use them to serve during their holidays.

You can read more about the three weeks of serving advertising here.

This video was shown during Public Meetings

Continue Reading…

These videos were made to encourage university students to think more about how God could use them to serve during their holidays.

You can read more about the three weeks of serving advertising here.

This video was shown during Public Meetings

Continue Reading…

The “Church Is” project was an interactive animation that was made as part of a Christian art exhibit in June 2011 (You can read more about the project here).

The project was based on a survey of 31 people. All the participants remained anonymous and gave permission for their answers to be used. The 31 people may or may not be Christian, but I would assume that most of them are as the majority of participants were people in my circle of friends or friends of friends. You can view a selection of the responses in the project itself, but for interests sake I thought I would publish all of the answers given.

These are the answers to the third question, What don’t you like about Church?

• The negative connotations associated with the Church. I do not like hypocrites in the church either.
• When it becomes confined to a building
• Nooothing
• not much.
• arguments, moralism, judgement, arrogance.
• That not everyone in the world realises what they’re missing out on.
• Division, idolatry, mundaneness, boringness, quenching the spirit,
• Sermons can be hard for those who are not auditory learners.
• when people make you feel like you’re alone

Over the coming three weeks during EU Public Meetings, we’re going to be encouraging people to think about how God will use them next year (and for the rest of their lives). In order to do this, we’ve come up with a bit of an advertising strategy.

Each week during Public Meetings, there will be a video shown around a theme (serving at Church, in your holidays, or in the EU). This video is a short 3 minute summary of interviews we did with 3 people who serve in that area. The aim of this people is to get them thinking about the many different ways that God can use us to serve his people and his world.

At the end of each of these videos, people are directed to the EU’s Facebook Page where they can watch longer interviews with each of the 3 people from that week about how they serve, and find out more information about serving.

I’m going to share these videos over the coming weeks, and I’ll link to all of the posts below.

1. Week 1 – How Will God Use You? In Your Holidays
2. Week 2 – How Will God Use You? At Your Church
3. Week 3 – How Will God Use You? In The EU

I’m sad that I won’t get to see these videos in Public Meetings as I’ll be on a teaching internship, but I really hope and pray that God will use them to stir people’s hearts to serve him!