There's a new video called "The Bible in 11 minutes" which is an attempt to sum up the Bible in a way everyone can understand, and do so in eleven minutes. Not an easy task!!! The video was released recently and went viral in New Zealanad when a radio announcer gave the website address and…
Read MoreAlaska: Surprise hit band of Parachute 2011
I just finished listening to Alaska play the mainstage. They won the 'Best of White Elephant" at Parachute Festival 2011 and my kids heard them many times. I told you they were worth checking out!!!! They have a harpist and violinist in the band and have a unique sound – a bit like Radiohead, actually,…
Read MoreMurray Deaker should be here
Hearing Prime Minister John Key speak yesterday to the Parachute Festival crowd made me think that Murray Deaker should come one year to speak and stir things up. Murray Deaker is a Kiwi icon and well-known sports commentator. I grew up in Orewa and Murray was one of my dad's drinking mates. I remember Murray,…
Read MorePM John Key Talks and Sings at Parachute Festival
Update: 2012 Best Bet is NZ'er of the Year Sam Chapman speaking at PassionFest. "NZ is the best little country in the world." Rt. Hon. John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Parachute Festival's mainstage. And yes, he really DID sing! PM John Key turned up this morning at Parachute Festival, which is the largest…
Read MoreSocial Media and the Cape Town Commitment
Here's the soical media part of the Cape Town Commitment that was just released by the Lausanne Movement, based on our congress last September in South Africa. 4. Truth and the globalized media We commit ourselves to a renewed critical and creative engagement with media and technology, as part of making the case for the…
Read MoreParachute: Largest Christian Event in the Southern Hemisphere
Thats what the word is down here in Hamilton, New Zealand at Parachute Festival 2011. 25,000 people are coming this weekend. Apparently that makes it the "largest Christian event of any kind in the Southern hemisphere" . . .or in other words . . IT BEATS THOSE BLODDY AUSSIES and makes all their wimpy Christian…
Read MoreJUST RELEASED: Social Media talk at Lausanne World Congress
I am making this audio available because the good people at Lausanne have a backlog of audio to upload and I heard it might take a few months for this one to see the light of web. This is Dr Dion Forster, Social media team leader for Lausanne World Congress, speaking as part of a…
Read MoreNeed wheels in NZ
Good news. Dave White has sold his old van. Bad news. We were borrowing it to get around New Zealand so we are about to be without wheels. Does anyone out there have a spare car or van or camper we can borrow for the next month or so?
Read MoreCape Town Commitment Now Released
UPDATE. Its Friday. Here it is: The greatly anticipated . . . Cape Town Commitment The Cape Town Commitment has been given to participants of the Lausanne World Congress and will be released to the wider public tomorrow (Friday – but I am in New Zealand so Friday comes sooner). I am reading it today…
Read MoreSecular bands at Christian Festivals?
Should 'secular" bands play at Christian festivals? The question is being asked in New Zealand – where I have just arrived a week ago – in regard to a "normal" band playing at Parachute Festival, NZ's biggest Christian Music Festival which weigh's in at 25,000 people. Dave Gibson discuss the issue with his band Elemeno.P…
Read MoreTalking at World Vision about mission and social media
This Wednesday (Feb 2) I am speaking at the World Vision chapel service at 8:30am. Address is 51 Hugo Johnston Drive, Penrose, Auckland. If you can stay longer, I am speaking to a smaller group at 9:30 on how I think New Zealand churches and ministries could greatly enhance their impact through social media, blogging…
Read MoreNZ: Attending Parachute Festival
Update: In 2012 we will be at PassionFest and not Parachute Festival. Original Post: OK. We arrived safely in New Zealand and are about to attend Parachute Festival, New Zealands largest Christian music festival. Actually, Parachute is NZ's largest music festival of any kind with about 25,000 people coming each year. Thats a little larger…
Read MorePilgrimage with me in 2011
2010 was a busy year of travel for our family. 25 countries in one year is crazy . .. but fun. Most nights we wild camped somewhere free and . . . wild . . and in the day times we were exploring and encouraging some of the most creative solutions to the worlds most…
Read MoreBlogabout
Our family is having a great time in Thousand Oaks, CA, staying at the home of Michael and Rita Warren who are connected to Christian Associates Intl and have been in the TV business for many years. Michael was the producer and writer behind many of the shows I watched as a kid, including Happy…
Read MoreTalkin’ ’bout storytelling and media in Los Angeles
I am speaking twice in Los Angeles – an informal retelling of a bible story at a church and a boring lecture at a mission organization. Come along and say hi if you get the chance. 1. At the Tribe of LA community on Sunday [Jan 9] I am telling the story of the Samaritan…
Read MoreNew Years at Crowne Plaza Foster City
We had a great entry into 2011 by celebrating New Years Eve at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City. Wonderful place! Cant wait to go back again. The Fernandez family were with us and the Rudd family came the next day with their kids for a swim. Thanks to the friendly staff at Crowne…
Read MoreMoolala: Saving money and supporting our work
Moolala is a brand new internet company just launched by my friends in Texas. I have mentioned Tony and Felicity Dale [house2house] before on this blog. They are medial doctors who are involved in global mission movements and hope this new company, started by them and their two sons, will give away huge amounts to…
Read MoreVintage Faith Church on Sunday
Ahhhhhh . . [YAWN] . . . that was a long blogging break but it felt really good. I just had a very people-intensive Christmas and New Years celebration with lots and lots of people up and down the West Coast of USA. This might be my return to regular blogging . . . but…
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