Today’s Challenge: Draw a funny picture and hide it in an unexpected place for someone else to find.
We were at a bit of a loss as to how we might pull this one off, but after some head scratching, we decided that we would create a movie poster for our friend Matt. Last night he [...]

When Carrie and her friends became the top rating television show Sex and the City, they put more than promiscuity on the map.
The show also put its finger on something complicated yet precious, an aspect of life that is important to all women, no matter who they are. Sex and the City talked about friendship.
Women [...]

Just a quick correction on the post below about feedback. I’m not encouraging people to slag off their minister with negative feedback beause they don’t like the way he said what he said.
I was simply talking as a trainee who wants to be given lots of constructive feedback. I feel like I don’t often get [...]

We just added a widget to our blog to allow you to preview links before you click on them. Just mouse-over the link, and you should see a small copy of the page you’re about to go to. Try this one. It’s kinda cool – but has the potential to annoy. We’re going to [...]

Today’s challenge: Spend 15 – 30 minutes doing something you love that you don’t often have the chance to do.
Warning: the first half of this post contains nerd speak.
For me, something that I really enjoy doing is dusting off my Xbox and taking it to the aliens in Halo. Sadly, It’s been a while [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to give feedback to people in ministry.
Soph and I have been training our home group in leading Bible studies, as well as opening up the Crossfire platform for some new preachers to try their hand at a skill.
As a naturally critical person, I like to be honest with [...]

Today’s Challenge: Write down one big dream of yours. Draw or find a picture to go with it and put it somewhere you will see it often.
I had lots of big dreams when I was young. Often they involved possessing superpowers or being just like my favourite fictional characters, like Anne of Green Gables or [...]

After a shaky start with some machine problems, I had a great time making coffee today. It’s nice to know that I’ve still got the skills to handle some big rushes. One of the girls I served said – “Oh wow, that’s better than Campos.” That kind of comment makes your day.

As long they are less than 100mb. Sweet.

Challenge 5: Become a scientist. Conduct a silly experiment.
Aim: To discern who has a bigger mouth – Sam or Soph? Sam definitely talks more, but Soph has the bigger smile. We need to conduct an experiment to give us some exact results!

Equipment:

A bag of marshmallows
Two mouthsFingersA digital camera.Two plates for “post stuff scrutineering”

Method:

Open Sophia’s [...]