The Advenntures of Grace

Kia ora! Wee life update: We are in module three of the fellowship and that means placements! I am lucky enough to be doing my placement at CBA (Christian Broadcasting Association). This is an organisation that provides content to secular radio stations, but they're radio shows that have some Christian stuff sprinkled in there. I am busy learning how to do audio editing, doing some interviews, voice work and anything else I get the chance to try my hand at! We also have half a day of teaching at Venn each week where we are looking Faith and work and how they go hand in hand. Alright, *clears throat* time for some real talk. The past month or so has been pretty tough with new challenges being thrown at me left, right and centre. Fear has tried to weave it's way into the fabric of my life and it has been a huge, yet rewarding, learning curve as I spend each day speaking truth over myself and weaving myself a tapestry of faith. I have always had the tendency to worry and o...

Kia ora whanau! So much for doing a blog post once every two weeks... I knew that was pretty much impossible but my Aunty has always said that I need to attend 'Over Achievers Anonymous' so it's no surprise that I thought I would be able to achieve this! It has been a really jam packed few weeks, here's a few of the things that I've been getting up to: - Venn Summer Conference - I went to my first conference in 2017 and it absolutely changed my life and my relationship with God, it's the reason I am here doing this fellowship! Once again it was an incredible week, if you're remotely interested in the kind of stuff I'm doing you should check it out!  - Festival One - I got to play in a wee orchestra with The Brilliance on the main stage at festival and it was incredible! Major highlight of my life, I reckon. - Waitangi weekend - I spent four days up in Paihia staying at Te Tii marae, it was a beautiful and unique experience. We went up wi...

Kia Ora friends, I think I was optimistic when I set out to do a blog post every week. My brain has been SO filled to the brim learning about everything from the importance of how the gospel arrived in Aotearoa, to the reformation, to salvation and what that really is!! Super exciting stuff but tough to dilute into a nice wee blog post for you all, but here I go! One stream of the first module is on Spiritual Disciplines, I touched on this in my last post and I thought I would unpack some of the thinking and learning we have been doing around this because it’s super challenging. We have been talking about this notion of The ‘Busy’ Christian. What do we fill our lives with? A lot of us are people who are just go, go, go. How much stuff do we do that distracts us, keeps us busy and stops us from looking at ourselves and, more importantly, at God? There’s the obvious day to day things and commitments that we jam into our weekly schedule, but we looked at some deeper stuff. We...