by Emily | Apr 26, 2022 | Encouragement
As a teacher, there are a few key classroom moments that settle in your heart and come back again and again to memory. While predominantly, you are there to help your students learn; very early on you recognise you also learn from them. Each child is different, with...
by Emily | Sep 18, 2020 | Encouragement
The latest Netflix Home organising show has hit the screens and Guardian reporter Stuart Heritage is prepared to call it the most 2020 show of 2020- whatever that means!? (The Guardian, 2020) Get Organised with The Home Edit features Joanna and Clea, owners of the...
by Emily | Dec 19, 2019 | Encouragement
Over the past six months, as we have transitioned into ministry, I have been struck by this fact: God uses the simple things to grow his kingdom. When I was young, every year, the day after Boxing Day, my family and I would be found setting up tents at Currarong for...
by Emily | Aug 25, 2019 | Encouragement
Over the past months and years, morality has been on the cultural menu and as Christians we have served up a good dose of guilt without much gospel. Recently, as a young lady I know came to meet Jesus, I sat and chatted through the questions she had about her newly...
by Emily | Aug 28, 2016 | Encouragement
There is nothing quite like a large gathering of Christians all singing together. Today, I am at the OneLove Conference. I am learning about how to realign what captivates me, what fills my longings and desires and what motivates me. I constantly need to be...
by Emily | Aug 21, 2016 | Encouragement
Sometimes, when you keep a blog, it is easy for people to get a rosy-coloured view of who you are, as we are often more inclined to document the good moments and try to forget the bad. Writing a blog that you have titled “Pursuits of God”, probably sets...