Practically connecting with the community = Connect 09 initiative

The Anglican Churches in Sydney are trying to make their focus outward, to focus on building relationships in the community, and to pray that God would use those relationships for sharing the gospel.

They call this initiative Connect 09.

So what better way to promote this initiative, and to get in the spirit of this initiative, than for my Dad (pictured) to join one of the local over-45's soccer teams.

He is the right age (he is definitely over 45), it would give him great contact with men living in and around the Hornsby Parish, and it would give his wife (also known affectionately as "Mum" by me) a great chance to go and talk to the other wives who go and laugh at their husbands on a Saturday afternoon at the football.

I don't know if Dad is so keen at the moment.  But I'm sure he would appreciate being given shorts, socks, shin-pads, boots, knee braces, ankle taping, ambulance cover (oh wait he already has that), and registration fees for his birthday, as a simple push in the right direction.  It is for the gospel after all.

(As an aside, if you want to see one way Dad has connected with his community, go up to Asquith Bowling Club, I haven't been, but others at morning church have enjoyed going up there and watching some sort of repeated slide show.) 

Update: Don't expect him to put on the boots any time soon, but it is for other reasons than for a lack of desire to connect in.