SO here is the late Katrina Boucher...who was in fact early!
All I can say is stunner!
I feel so blessed to have Katrina in my life now. She gets me. She knows how to handle me. She laughs at me and she builds me up. Katrina has taught me to let things go and most importantly to not cast things up. She is so forgiving and kind - she needs to be married to me!
So may I present to you the new Mrs Patterson...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The beautiful Bride arrives
Great is thy faithfulness
The big day
Here I am. Tuesday 22 April 2008. I got my best man, Charlie and my grooms man, Phil by my side. 2 amazing guys. What an amazing day. This was taken by the very talented Andre Alves Areias. Nice one Dr Dre!
Monday, March 31, 2008
6 distinctive features of Mission
Reading thru the life of Hudson Taylor. He set up the China Inland Mission (CIM) and here is his 6 distinctive features, which I think are still applicable today:
- Missionaries will be drawn not from any particular denomination but from all the leading Christian churches - provided they could sign a simple doctrinal declaration (How could we agree on that??)
- Missionaries would have no guaranteed salary, but trust in the Lord to supply their needs. Income would be shared. No debts would be incurred. (But thats not practical!!!!)
- No appeal for funds would be made.(He must really take his faith seriously!!)
- The work abroad would not be directed by home committees but by people on the spot, in the field (people who actually know what is going on)
- The activities of the mission would be systematic and practical. Evangelism would seek to establish footholds in strategic centres
- The missionaries would wear clothes from the region and worship in building built in the style of the area (geared to the times, anchored to the rock!)
Food for thought...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Rambo
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Lava Lamp
Found this cool prayer tool on emerging church website and it actually helped me focus and pray more - cool!
Lava lamp prayer
Monday, February 18, 2008
Tony the Tiger
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
An idea
So reading thru Starving Jesus, Craig and JR encourage the reader to do something - not copy them but do something. Apparently they always get people asking "What should we do?"
So we've been thinking about this in YFC and Steve and myself have started workin towards doing a prayer tour of Ireland. One of Steve's goals is to get 32 drop in centres in every county in Ireland. This summer we got 12 Canadians coming over to do something. SO we thought if we could match that maybe with 12 Irish people, could we hire some RVs and travel round Ireland for 2 weeks and just pray...
JR and Craig fasted and preached and cuffed themselves to a pew, which is very Jeremiah/Ezekiel/prophet like - I love it but like I said don't want to copy these guys.
I think in YFC we are in a new period so we got to pray, seek God, see where God is working and then join God's work. This nation will become a sending nation again, but we got to start doing stuff and get serious. This is step one.
Now we have had one door close after approaching Motorhome Ireland but maybe we can get a couple of mini buses, travel round and sleep in churches. We just want to pray with people, as if that isn't enough! God will do stuff and guide us on the way. So we are looking for churches throughout Ireland who would like 24 people to come pray and encourage them at the start of July this summer.
Step two - promoting it and getting the word out!
Live Simply
So started going thru this 10 week or should I say 10 chapters on a Monday night with Katrina, Dave, Heather and Nevaeh. It's really challenging and has all the charts and tables to impress Dave and myself.
Its very practical and here are 5 simply things you can do right now:
- Think of a neighbour or friend who needs some help, whether financially or in some other way, and do something to meet that need this week
- Set aside 2 half hour periods during the week when you can have some space for sitting quietly
- Go thru your clothes and give away anything you have not worn in the past year
- Look at the amount of packaging involved in the food you buy and work on reducing it to a bare minimum
- Do not use your car this week for any journey under 2 miles
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Starving Jesus
Sometimes books just come along at the right time. Dave Currie is like my local library as he is always giving me good books to read - so thanx Dave.
I'd seen this book about and heard about it, especially when Craig was over with XXXChurch.com in November, but don't know why I didn't read it then. You know when you read, and you're like, "I should read more, rather than sit and waste my time on Football Manager..."
Anyway I'm nearly finished the book so will blog later what really inspired me, but really want to encorage people to read this





