Family, Friends and Hillsong Conference time.

Well I am pumped right now to have people staying at my house the spare room is taken by Taylor and Chana Barriger who are good friends from Peru and are living the dream building a great church in Lima with his Father Robert Barriger.

In the boys room is Reed Bogard a good friend who is living in Dallas and preparing for the next season, I also have other good friends like Mike Haman and Johnny Green the HPC lads who are in town along with many many many other friends...

The reason being that we have Hillsong Conference staring Tuesday at Acer arena, be great to see all my other friends there and also to make many new friends as well.

His Kingdom is all encompassing and theres room for many more too.

Williams 2nd Brithday

So today is my youngest sons 2nd birthday party and he has had a ball.

His cousins and nanna and aunts and uncles all came over and they climbes trees and chased lizards and bugs.

Isn't it great to see young kids play together. There are so many similarities with kids and adults, we all love having company and we all love exploring and tryimg new things. Instead of climbing trees its helping a country or a family, instead of giving a tonka truck we sponsor a child or help someone.

I never want to stop exploring the avenues of life that cause me to make new discoveries or to kick new goals.

Princesses rule!

Should I consider going Pro?

Have you ever been in a place on your own and achieved something that you
wish someone else had been able to see, you can relate the story but you
cant really capture the moment and celebrate it with them?

Well these 2 pictures were of me facing a hole with lots of hazards and
bunkers at the 6 flags course in San Antonio and making the decision to pull
the driver and take the risk, imagine my surprise when I hit the perfect tee
shot and cleared the bunkers for a chip and a putt birdie on what is a
hazardous hole.

Hope you appreciate the pics, one is a perspective pic and the other is
where my ball landed!

Should I go Pro??

THIS WEEK IN INDIA

Wow what a week, as a church we are building a dream centre for kids in mumbai who live on the streets, Biju my friend who feeds around 1000 of them a day gets asked daily if he will take kids home with him, I saw this with my own eyes happen 5 times in 2 days, unbelievable to see a parent in such desperation that they would give their child away and never see them again.

Its monsoon in Mumbai so raining everyday and kids just stand naked on the streets, what a great thin Biju is doing.

Whenever I get complacent in my pursuit of empowering people to help others I am gunna think of the look I saw in a Mothers eye as she begged us to do something for her child, take her away please from this place, teach her to dream and to live a big life.

I am more passionate right now about helping people than I have ever been before and won't be stopping anytime soon.

Passionately...
Daz
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Bledisloe Cup

I had the opportunity to go to the Bledisloe Cup this week with some friends 3 of us were going for the Wallabies (Aust) and 2 of us were going for the All Blacks (NZ). On the way into the game in the car the rules were established, we all nailed our colours to the mast, the competetiveness in the car was so thick you would have had to chip away at it with an ice pick to have broken it down at all.

Then the National Anthems, all 5 of us located ourselves in the middle of our respective teams, then the Haka and waltzing Matilda were chanted along with, there was high fives and knowing looks with the people around us as they located what side of the fence they were on, its amazing how united people come when they are on the same team, or cheering for the same colours.

The whole night actually was not about what we disagreed with people on it was about focusing on the people that we had common ground and unity with. One guy in particular was sitting 4 rows back and 12 seats over and we were getting eye contact all night and celebrating together as our team went on to win, we didn't actually speak a word, but I found myself when we scored searching for a nod of agreement and a smile so we could celebrate together.

Isn't it funny that we can unite around such things as a football game so easily even when there are clear opponents in sight no one seems to focus on the opposition or the negative aspect of them being right there, their point of view and their unhappiness with the refs calls, we can see past that and just focus on what we have in common, even in loss there seems to be a genuine, she'll be right mate kind of attitude.

In the car on the way home there were no sides, there was no trash talk, there was a return to the common ground of our love for the game, enjoyment of the night and what we all took out of the game.

What unites you with the people around you, its very easy to focus on the things that bring distance but if you build on the common ground and have enough grace to look past the differences, life is a whole lot more fruitful.

That's what I reckon!!
Daz

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Believing in People

I personally find it very easy to believe in people, I have been in an environment for the last 18 years that has given me plenty of great reasons for that.

This picture is of Brenden Brown, he is one of the pastors at our church, Brenden has been in my life for about 5 years now maybe 6 and we got close when he came on a missions trip to japan with me, Brenden is now flourishing as a leader and is seeing people who serve in his area of church life growing from strength to strength.

I love watching people succeed because they have a heart for others not because they have ambitions to but just cause God sees thier heart and willingness to prefer another in order for God to have His way.

Brenden is now one of my great mates and I believe he has a great future...

I believe we should all believe in people, Jesus entrusted everything into the hands of a few people He believed, not cause they had graduated just cause He wanted to...

Believe in someone warts and all today, my warts didn't deter the people who trusted me.