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Sunday, November 02, 2003 |
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UPDATE: this blog has moved to Tallskinnykiwi.com
 This just came in from Blogger Forum:
"You are ranked #3 at Blogger Forum's Top Ten Blog*Spot sites this week.
This is the first time you have been in the rankings.
Congrats.
www.bloggerforum.com"
Well thats great. But the thing is, I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO STOP THIS BLOG and people just dont listen to me when i tell them that . . . Tallskinnykiwi doesn't blog here anymore. Tallskinnykiwi.com is the location now- and you will notice I have changed blogging engines over to Typepad.
Nothing against Blogger.com . I love Blogger and have appreciated the push I needed to learn some html, having a voice, being trackable for my parents, and everything else that this blog has done for me in the past 2 and a half years.
I should say also that I was quite effective as a Blogger evangelist (evangelist for Blogger) having encouraged many (probably hundreds) of people to start blogging and even made up templates that i was hacking into back in 2001.
Let me also say that many of the bloggers do a much better job than me. They are more vulnerable, more regular, more polite and many of their sites look far better than mine did on blogger.
Why have I moved?
Because I wanted my tallskinnykiwi.com domain name to point to this blog but that has been impossible for 3 months, ever since they stopped allowing upgrades to make them pointable.
Besides that, Typepad seems more powerful and i can categorize my blogs into different areas - making them ideal for content management.
And maybe i moved so that i can have the excitement of starting over, with a new program that stretches me to learn and master, and to start something new that I can water and watch it grow into something.
Andrew Jones at 4:50 PM
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Monday, August 18, 2003 |
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 Greenbelt Festival. Wish I had a caravan as cool as this one- but we have some cool tents instead. We are setting up our tent village at Greenbelt in anticipation of a BILLION people camping in our tents and hanging out. Some of the team are setting it up today and will work for a few days here to pay for their tickets.
Looking for me at Greenbelt??????
Look for the mini-Peach- a tall peach colored tent with kids everywhere. Or better yet, look for a tall flag with the name “Obed” on it. Obed was the son of Boaz and Ruth, and our big flag that once said “Opel” (as in Opel cars from Germany) has been deconstructed and adjusted. The flag should be supported by our big white van which will have a tent awning attached to it.
Or just listen for the noise of children and go there – you will find me in a corner with my hands over my ears, rocking gently in a fetal position and mumbling to myself, “I cant take any more noise”.
WALES. I will be the Kiwi who went up a hill and came down a mountain. I am taking the family to Wales (right next door) for 2 days, starting today.
Wales – the land of sheep, green grass, Tom Jones, and lots of other Joneses like us. With any luck, I will find some long lost relatives on my father’side. All I have to do is ask, “Does anyone remember my great great grandfather who worked in the mines last century? His name was JOHN JONES.
I am sure there will be some who have heard of him.
I hope to meet up with Chris Jones of International Teams, who leads the European team from his base in Wales. Everybody in Wales is called Jones. The 17 people in Wales who are not called Jones are the Evans family and their relatives who did not marry Joneses.
When we get back on Thursday, we get to stay at a Bed and Breakfast. Rob and Lily Lewin have given us a gift of one night at a B&B in Cheltenham so Debbie and I can sneak off for a long hot bath, some clean sheets and ONE NAUGHTY NIGHT!
At Greenbelt, I don’t expect any WI-Fi or internet access, so I should fill you in now on what will happen.
Friday at 8pm, our team is leading an alt. Worship experience at the New Worship Venue (I think it is called that). We will be using the journey that our kids created, based on their pilgrimage, and adding video and sound to it. We may set up a DIY VJ station. Travis Read of Highway Video will be there to help us out.
I have to teach on a panel regarding the future of the church – which will be fun- but I can’t tell you where it will be or what day.
COOL EXPERIENCES AWAITING ME AT GREENBELT:
Hearing the Archbishop teach.
Throwing water balloons at the Archibishop at the “I hate Church” seminar.
Homer Simson communion with the Archibishop. (Serious)
Hanging out with the Archbishop.
Sneaking around tents at 3am, pulling out their tent pegs and removing their support ropes, with the Archibishop.
PEOPLE I HAVE NOT YET MET BUT WILL DO SO AT GREENBELT:
Rowen Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury), Mike Riddell, (Kiwi who I should have met by now), Peter Ward and George Cray – teachers.
 FRIENDS I WILL SEE AGAIN AT GREENBELT:
Brian MacLaren will be there and we hope to hook up.
Tom Sine is also teaching – be good to see him again.
Dr Elaine, who I met in Budapest. She rocks.
Dave Andrews from Australia – I had dinner with him and his wife 10 years ago in Brisbane, Australia, where they have a community of over 30 houses, all transforming the city in different ways. That was before he published “Christianarchy” and stirred things up so much.
Jonny Baker, of course.
John Smith, also from Australia, is a real character. I saw him last in Tennessee, about 5 years ago. My RV was parked outside his apartment.
Speaking of motor homes, and to honor those of you who are still reading this blog, we have decided to give away our Winnebago to a ministry that could use it. It is currently in Southern California. It has a new motor that cost a fortune, but it needs some work on the carb and a few small things. If you or someone you know needs it AND PREFERABLY HAVE ALREADY BEEN PRAYING FOR IT, please email me with a request and reason why your ministry would like it. We will decide on who gets it by September 7th (my birthday).
Andrew Jones at 9:30 PM
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All the pilgrims are back and here in Sheffield, England for a gathering called Wabi Sabi UK.
These are the pilgrims that walked the Camino in Spain and are here right now:
Erika, Robbie and Grace, Teresa, Shannon, Jessica, Derek and Amy, and of course The Jones Family
The Stuart Family are here, after their long pilgrimage from Australia, and there are other people here, such as Stacey and Anita from the original Wabi Sabi which happened in Austin, Texas 5months ago.
As for the English bloggers who are hosting us all (and doing a great job) there are probably too many to mention but you can see most of them at Andy and Bea's blog.
I know i am forgetting some people here - Rob and Lily are turning up from their pilgrimage in UK- straight from Holy Island - and I dont have a link to them - my apologies.
Tonight we are having a pilgrims night at some houses. People will be clicking through some of these web sites to see the stories.
Andrew Jones at 1:15 AM
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I wrote a review of some new worship books that you can read at 
All over now. Wabi Sabi, that is. The English managed to keep the whole thing relational, centered on people rather than serving the event, and even FREE - ie, we didnt have a BUDGET, didnt rent anything, didnt pay anyone to come. Thanks to St Thomas Crookes church for their buildings when we needed them.
Tonight is a worship/arts experience put together by all the kids and based on our pilgrimages. The house is all rigged up with experiences, there are computers going, sleeping bags, a wine fountain, and much more. Tell you about it later.
Thom Wolf and his wife are in Prague but we are still in England, of course, and want be able to hang with them. But the Wolfs (Wolves?) will be back next month in Prague.