postaday : Brett Fish

of dinosaurs, finger insects and state line jumps…

we [myself, my beautiful wife Val, our housemate Sueihn and my gym and office buddy Coe aka 'Bubbly'] just got back from a very long trip which involved two twenty-five-plus hour two day road trips on either side of a one day Nurturing Communities conference which lead directly into the Christian Community Development Association [CCDA] annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota... what a complete blast. we had a great time road-tripping up, but it was our [...]

By brettfish|2012-10-01T21:57:38+02:00October 1st, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, humour'ish, life, local news, silly things, the beautiful Val (tbV)|0 Comments

instagrablogm

i don't have an iPhone slash any phone right now and so don't have the ability to Instagram [which is something i'm not too sad about cos much like predictive text and apparently mac computers until you get them you think they are silly] but there were a couple of snapshots from the last day at CCDA conference that i would like to share, each of which could probably be worked into their own blog [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-29T07:20:18+02:00September 29th, 2012|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, thorts of other people|0 Comments

the ability to stay aka stability

on the way to the CCDA conference in Minneapolis that a bunch of us from the Simple Way are currently attending, three of us stopped over at a Nurturing Communities event hosted by David Janzen who has just released a book on community and met up with a bunch of people from different intentional communities all over the country and spent a really great day connecting and dialoging and having an opportunity to connect with [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-28T07:45:52+02:00September 28th, 2012|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, God stuff, life, thorts of other people|3 Comments

what stories are you telling?

a number of the simple way staff and residents are currently at the Christian Community Development Association [CCDA] conference in Minnesota which started last nite and is set to be an incredible time and i'm sure i will share a little bit about that here. last nite, Richard Twiss, a native american leader [who also spoke some challenging things last year which i think in part led to this year's theme being 'Reconcile'] started off [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-27T08:03:50+02:00September 27th, 2012|activities, challenging thorts, God stuff, local news, thorts of other people|1 Comment

Self-OCCUPY'd [a belated processing of the Occupy Movement that i encountered face to face]

i don't know a crazy lot about politics, nor do i claim to. although i do try to keep on top of the daily/weekly goings on back home in South Africa as well as the major news events with daily visits to internet news sites like iafrica.com and bbc.com so that i have a general idea of what is going on in the world. so when the OCCUPY movement came along, i had some idea [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-25T08:32:43+02:00September 25th, 2012|and other animals., challenges, change the world, local news, shtupidt people, silly things, world news|2 Comments

My Strength Weakness: part woo… huh? wait? what? [Rob Murray]

There is a prompting in all our hearts to live a life of adventure this side of eternity. A most satisfying opportunity exists for those who can direct their personal call, gifts and strengths to reflect and respond to the glory of our Creator. A consequence of the Fall is that most people are not aware of what their true giftedness is and have only a vague awareness of what their real contribution can be [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-25T03:01:54+02:00September 25th, 2012|and other animals., inspire-ations, thorts of other people|3 Comments

My Strength Weakness: part inclusivity [Sharné Finn Osborne]

Inclusivity. This is one of my biggest strengths although, lately, I've seen it as a weakness. I'm the worship pastor at my church. I love Jesus, I LOVE worshiping Him with music and I love leading people in corporate singing worship. I feel like this is one of the things I'm called to do. In the Vineyard movement we have a saying "everyone gets to play." John Wimber coined this phrase. I love the heart [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-23T04:07:50+02:00September 23rd, 2012|inspire-ations, thorts of other people|1 Comment

according to your faith.

in morning prayer this week we read from Matthew 9.27-34 about how Jesus heals two blind men and frees another man from some demon. what was interesting about the translation we were reading from was that it said this: 'As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, calling out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" When He had gone indoors, the blind men came to Him, and He asked them, "Do [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-22T13:58:45+02:00September 22nd, 2012|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, God stuff, life|7 Comments

My Strength Weakness: part hardcore [Shae Leigh Bloem]

I am hardcore. I nearly broke my hip skateboarding. I eat burgers with my hands and not a knife and fork. Spiders don’t freak me out. I can jump-start a car. I love hardcore music too – the likes of Underoath, Blessthefall, The Devil Wears Prada, and Pierce the Veil, I could eat for breakfast. I drink beer. My electric guitar is black. I don’t lose my cool (if I do I chuck on my [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-21T06:16:56+02:00September 21st, 2012|inspire-ations, life, people, thorts of other people|3 Comments

My Strength Weakness: part people [Bruce Collins]

People. I love people. That is how I am wired. I want to be with people. I want to love people. I desire to be deeply immersed in living life with others in way that hands get dirty and hearts get broken. I don’t always get it right but do feel that God has enabled me to do these things: to love unconditionally, to embrace without judgement, to listen, to discern ways out or ways [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-20T05:48:33+02:00September 20th, 2012|inspire-ations, people, thorts of other people|8 Comments