Greetings people
Welcome to the first of many of Rev Ev’s blogs.
Within you will find my reflections on life, spirituality, contemporary culture, and even things like sport and politics.
I will attempt to pose questions that will provoke you to think about things in a new way. I will also attempt to apply things, within the world around us, to spiritual concepts.
As a brief intro to myself I am an inner city sydneyite. That gives me a unique insight that will probably reflect a differing view from what some see as “Australian Values.” I am a husband to my beautiful wife Moira, who is a Kiwi of Samoan descent, she has been given a mission in life, being married to me. And I am the father of four Children, three daughters Eternity 9, Harmony 8, and Leilani 7, all of whom were born in July. Before you ask yes we had a TV but lets just say that October has always been a good month for me. We also have a son Israel who is 3, he is more commonly known as Isa.
In March 2007 we, with a faithful team, embarked on the journey of planting a Church in the South West of Sydney called, “The Embassy.” We used the name Embassy because the role of the Church is to be the representative of one kingdom, (Heaven), to another kingdom, (this world). A bit like Morpheus from the Matrix. Another reason is unfortunately the word Church, means so many things to so many people, that even though when we say Church we think we mean a certain thing. People probably think something completely different. Let me say I am not anti the Church quite the contrary I will lay down my life for it. But I am anti many of the misconceptions that the world has of the Church today. (More about this later I have a lot to say on this topic).
Lastly for today the mission of our church is; “To Revolutionise the Community of Canterbury Banstown and beyond through the transforming power of the gospel.”
What that means is, if we do our job as Jesus’ reps we will not only build a church but the postive influence will flow out of the churches into the streets and they will make it a better place to live for everyone. For those of you who don’t know Canterbury area. I often explain to people from other places that if you remember the Cronulla riots the people that left to go to Cronulla for the riots left from Lakemba. Often when you here our area mentioned on the news it is to do with ethnic violence or blowing up ATM’s. Much of this is may be true but no one ever hears the other side of the story. Canterbury is rich with culture. As a matter of fact we are probably one of the most multicultural parts of the second most multicultural city in the world. We are also known for having a high density of muslim people, which again is a misconception. Yes we do have, probably the most prominent mosque in Australia. But much of the anti muslim fear mongering that we see in the media is by people who don’t know anything about the people or the religion. I live in the heart of Lakemba and have many Muslim neighbours. They are some of the nicest people who are hard working and just want to share in the prosperity provided by our blessed country. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
I love my community and Jesus does too and that is why I think he sent us here.
To tell people that.
This has been Rev Ev’s Blog I would love to read your comments.
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