stellenbosch : Brett Fish

I am Stellenbosch [and other stories we tell our kids before they go to bed]

So this past week a picture appeared on my Twitterer of a white girl with a statement written on a board that made me cringe: Suddenly more and more of these pictures were popping up all over Social Media and turns out there was an #IAmStellenbosch group inviting students at the University to write statements about themselves which challenge the stereotype of a typical Stellenbosch student and highlight the differences and individualities of each student. [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-27T08:58:24+02:00September 27th, 2015|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|7 Comments

shtupidt people, part stellenbosch pedestrians…

i have a saying that 'people tend towards stupid' and generally life (and smokers flinging cigarette butts out of car windows) continues to prove me correct on this one... another prime example of this seems to be the mono-dimensional thort patterns of pedestrians in stellenbosch who will be walking along the pavement, possibly talking to a friend or messaging on their phone or vibing by themself and then they come to a road intersection and [...]

By brettfish|2011-02-08T16:18:10+02:00February 8th, 2011|shtupidt people|4 Comments

catflap man, catflap man… he does anything except…

so two nites ago we get a knock on our security complex apartment door at around 9.30pm and so being the nice friendly neighbourly guy i am i go and open it and it's not nice to call someone a weirdo on first impression so i feel unable to describe to you the person who was outside the door [strange, cos usually an unexpected knock that late at nite at our complex means they've pulled [...]

By brettfish|2010-11-22T05:57:31+02:00November 22nd, 2010|and other animals., humour'ish, people|3 Comments

it's a vybe

so those of you who know me know that i use the word 'vibe' a lot noun: look at that vibe verb: let's vibe tonite adjective : the service was vibing last nite adverb: we played hockey vibedly pronoun: the sandwich is vibe the table... okay, well not yet, but any day now... i dig the word - it's a vibe anyways it is also the name of our junior youth group (grade 4 to [...]

By brettfish|2010-07-17T09:02:29+02:00July 17th, 2010|church, humour'ish|0 Comments

smile, money man, smile

so you know how they say ‘men who guard the money never smile’? okay, well they should. yesterday at the neelsie i walked round the corner carrying a table with chris to the elevator and as we rounded the corner two guys with hand guns stepped out – they were the money guarding people – third guy came round the corner with the bag which didn’t look all that big – and it’s the neelsie [...]

By brettfish|2010-02-04T07:24:21+02:00February 4th, 2010|humour'ish, life|0 Comments

two of the questions

that i am grappling with lately: one of them is taking the incredible life-transforming simple-gospel stuff we are reading about in books like Shane Claiborne's 'The Irresistible Revolution' and Erwin McManus 'an unSTOPPABLE force' and Rich Stearns 'The Hole in the Gospel' and even going back to the legen....dary Keith Green's 'No Compromise' story and not just being excited and 'challenged' and 'changed' by it, and not just talking about it and maybe looking down [...]

By brettfish|2010-01-15T05:34:07+02:00January 15th, 2010|church, God stuff, life, the beautiful Val (tbV)|6 Comments

highly recommended book read on the church…

'"We're looking for a church that meets our needs." It seems like I've heard this one a thousand times. The phenomenon of church shoppers has profoundly shaped the contemporary church. The entire conversation is not about relevance but convenience. The focus is not in serving the world; the church itself became the focal point. Our motto degenerated from "We are the church, here to serve a lost and broken world" to "What does the church [...]

By brettfish|2010-01-05T10:31:24+02:00January 5th, 2010|church, God stuff, life|1 Comment

what grew and what needs to

so this morning at church we had John Scott from Scotland (yes, i know) at Stellenbosch Vineyard morning service doing a good solid preach about dreams (having them while awake as opposed to analysing the ones that happen while you sleep) and then doing some ministry time (praying for sick etc) afterwards now i arrived at church early and got chatting to him which was really cool and i shared some of my struggling-faith-with-healing-related-things thing [...]

By brettfish|2009-11-22T22:15:33+02:00November 22nd, 2009|God stuff|0 Comments