Last day
Friday, 22 October, 2004
Yesterday I had my last day of MTS. I know I'm still technically working for ECU in going to National Training Event, doing mission and whatever else comes my way but yesterday was still my last MTS-“day” if you know what I mean. I'll never be doing this again.
It was characterised by:
- waking up at odd hours of the morning and thus not sleeping very well (story of my life these days ...);
- feeling tired so I didn't go to guitar at Sarah's house;
- getting up later than I should have which meant I didn't eat breakfast so I took my muesli to Bronwyn's in a plastic container and begged for some milk and a spoon;
- Sharon visiting our girls' meeting and talking about what it's like to do ministry when you're a mum (as well as how single people can help and encourage mums);
- helping Phillip sort out the Supporters' Dinner money so we could bank it (money stuff is so confusing—especially when you're doing it with someone else!);
- going to my last ever Faculty Bible study group;
- getting fed up with the mess on the Chaplaincy table, cleaning it up, then sitting down to work on the Just for Starters study for my 3:30 meeting, getting frustrated with it and then falling to pieces (those studies really frustrate me—I think they aren't very well written, though the premise is good);
- going to the outer room to have a cry before Little showed up. Amanda and Stacie followed me and tried to help; Stacie took some potential work off my hands so I didn't have to do it (she finished it that afternoon as well);
- having my meeting with Little which consisted of my tears, Little's comforting words and some talk about sonship and JI Packer (because we're reading Knowing God together;
- having my meeting with Amanda and the girl who we met doing walk-up on the duckpond lawn who has since become a Christian which went well, despite Just for Starter's shortcomings;
- having my meeting with Marina in which we went through Philippians again in the New King James Version (we've been doing manuscript discovery), highlighted all the commands and talked about them;
- going home and getting some little jobs done that I've been meaning to do for ages, like register for the Singleness, Marriage and Ministry AIM day;
- having dinner with Pakman and Stacie who brought us pizza, garden salad and chocolate bavarian;
- watching 21 Grams with aforementioned dinner guests (the movie was all right—interesting way to tell a story but strangely unsatisfying and I feel like they sped up some bits of the plot too much. It's not a movie I'd recommend seeing);
- watching Ben's footage of Week 13 and that day on my computer after Pakman and Stacie had gone home (he's decided to make a little movie for the end-of-year dinner next week);
- trying to get to sleep and, again, not sleeping very well at all.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Does finishing up MTS mean you will sleep better and (hopefully) feel better, given that there will be less pressure on you?
Don’t know about you, but I cry when I am very tired and not sleeping well. Are you going to have some time off munchkin?
Hugs,
George
Re: Just for Starters
Remember that God can use the crudest tools to change people to believe
Love you sweetie. Sorry I couldn’t come to the Supporters Dinner - same night as Gilmore Girls.
Hugs,
George
I haven’t done Just for Starters for a while - why do you think its not well written?
Heeeey! I have an even better idea! After you’ve done your Dip. B&M at Moore and when Guan’s left MM, you can take over Guan’s job AND re-write the Just for Starters studies and get them published!!!! And you can sign my copy!!
How come you don’t want to do MTS again? Is it too difficult?
H.
Ben A: I hope so but we’ll see.
George: I’m going to schedule in some days off but I can’t take any more leave because the rest of it is being used for NTE.
Elsie: I find the Just for Starters studies frustrating—the questions look deceptively simple but if you want to get the most out of the studies, then you go beyond the questions and ask your own and sometimes you even deconstruct the question to get the person you’re doing the studies with to understand stuff. There are also other Bible passages that you can go to to supplement the questions but these are found in the leaders’ notes and it confuses me about what they’re there for (Amanda says you have a choice about what to do with them).
I think the main problem with the studies is that they are essentially systematic theology but they are trying to do systematic theology with one passage (which you can’t) and the studies try to make up for it by adding the extra passages in the leaders’ notes and not in the actual studies.
Not that you should put all the other passages in the actual studies. I just think there are better ways of doing it which don’t confuse the person who is leading the studies.
Or maybe I’m just the only one who gets confused by them ... I’m such an English student.
Haydn: Read my blog and the newsletters I send you and you will understand why.