Welcome to 2010

So this is what 2010 looks like - hot lazy days in Auckland while my family in UK freeze and cope with snow!
I have been asked by a number of people to start a blog, so they can get to know me (and my thinking) better. So here it is. I hope to update it at least once each week, perhaps more, so please do check regularly.
I am genuinely excited as we head into this new year, with all the opportunities and potential it holds. I am also deeply aware that history is littered with wasted opportunities and unfulfilled potential, so my desire is to pray and think more; to speak in consultation more; to dream and risk more; but above all to put into firm action more of the visions and ideas which God sends my way.
"Community" is a buzz word in both the Christian and secular worlds. I describe CANZ as "a community of pioneering evangelists". Well now it is time to move from words to actions - so the new Church Army NZ Base is in the Kodesh Community in Avondale (www.kodeshcommuniy.org.nz). But we are not just living in a community, we fully intend to model community. We will have numerous visitors and guests staying with us, from a day or two to maybe years. We will develop a communal life with spiritual rhythms alonside washing-up rosters; prayer and peeling potatoes with mentoring and mowing the lawn! It will be an adventure for us as a family with the usual highs and lows; but for now I'm just relieved to be living out at least one great idea.