One Geek

I have been challenged to get more into the discipline of blogging more. So here is a little update on life.

My life is currently filled with lots of exciting things at various stages of completion.

I am very close to signing a very significant deal at work. It has been nine months work getting the project to this stage, involving quotes from numerous vendors and it’s been hard work selecting just one vendor. My excitement about starting the project is dampened by how much work I know the project will require before it is completed.

I’m excited about my trip with Sam to India and Nepal in January it will be great to go back to India and be in a country that changed me so much. Should get to go and visit some TEAR projects, as well as old friends while on our “holiday”. I am so turning into my Dad, combining work with holidays.

I’m doing a fair bit more staff training now, which I like. I’ve recently organised to spend an hour doing some extra geeky training for our web guy. It should be good. I’m pretty sure I’ll learn a lot in the process.

There are lots of other exciting things happening to, but they are in the early stages. I would like to write about a few of them, but that would risk them failing before they even got off the ground.

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Last week we had staff conference at TEAR. It was a pretty intense week, filled with good learning. I did a presentation that was well received. In fact the way I react to the praise and gratefulness I receive from staff is somewhat of a paradox to me. A mixture of pride, humility and a determination to do better are stirred within me.

Other interesting talks included a deconstruction of Mark Driscoll and his views on women, a theology of development from a Kenyan perspective, a discussion on the importance of discipleship and our role as an organisation in journeying with people. Heart breaking were some of the stories from the countries where our partners work. They are such hard places. Hope filling though was the quality of the people that were in the room, and the stories of the hard work put in by our partners overseas..

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