are leaders at the pro-marginalised Church of Hope in inner Melbourne. Under Conrad & Marian Fenton, COH also does outreach work in King's Cross and India. John, Nella and baby Noah live 32km (20miles) south of Melbourne at Werribee.
i first met John at pro-rich kid
Christ Church Hawthorn (inner Melbourne church semi-plant by St Hilary's, Kew). They met on the COH Flinders Street evangelism team. John was called to get rid of his possessions and LIVE on Melbourne CBD streets. Nobody could believe the transformation from comfort zone Sunday nights on CCH pews. He now wore simple clothes and sandals a la Franciscans founder St Francis_of_Assisi (b 1181). John's story is at
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John starts work at the Werribee landfill tip at 2.30AM and they've been searching for a used car so "Nella can do shopping, etc." Free Vicroads data showed many chosen vehicles had been involved in collisions. (Salesmen often lied.)
John and Nella, i'm sad that you think you need a 2nd car. Maybe there's pressure from Nella's family. What the world needs now is another car on the road. More greenhouse gases. More global warming... What happened to self-restraint??
As for me, i have bent over to pick up others' cans, bottles and waste for decades. i could have had a great time joining the hedonism around me.
i have seen Churches and Churchpeople at the forefront of the 'THROW AWAY', CAR-HAPPY society. i could have just been another passive Church attender. i too could have bought a car and this and that... i could have my ears tickled by sermons which NEVER warned people about their destructiveness to Creation.
Well, what do YOU think?
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