Windy, wet, stormy day and they
say it will be like this for the week.... I think I’ll stay in bed. Picked up my own suitcase from the repairers
all spick and span and returned the huge monstrosity of a thing they had lent me.
Lunch in town and a bit of wander. The news that Dan Carter is out of
the World Cup is hitting the Kiwi’s hard.
You would think that the All Blacks were out of the tournament!
I have to confess now that the
Scotland squad are out of the tournament I am feeling a wee bit in limbo. Not quite sure what to do with a week to
myself though I am sure some things will transpire.
Attended a meeting tonight with
Cassie Carstens from the International Sports Coalition (amongst other things). Cassie is from South Africa with a breadth of
experience and knowledge in sports chaplaincy and leadership training. His “talk”
was titled “Why Sports Ministry?”, but boy did he cover a lot more ground than
that. Why anything from a church point
of view? Whose agenda? God’s or ours? That was the disturbing question. Apart from that he covered the fatherless
generation, the church is losing as immorality increases around us, the
consequences of family breakdown, redeeming community be it sports,
agriculture, business, family life and more. I found myself deeply moved by his
talk and still filtering and assimilating a lot of it. There is much I have to reflect on from just
a 3 hour meeting.
In the room were some of the
sports chaplains from the tournament, some pastors, some folk from ENGAGE and
also a couple of sports agents. And yet again I found myself coveting my
brother’s facilities. All of these
Churches seem to have cafe areas with proper coffee machines (Kiwis take their coffee
seriously) and lots of space. Perhaps I’ll
just have to dream on.
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