I was in on that discussion.

To get things rolling, we’ve put together a site and a web forum as a means of helping people find out who other Christians are, chat, organise to meet up at tournaments, pray for one another, and a bunch of other things. It may go in different directions. We’ll see.

The aims that we chucked around were the following:

1. Get discussions running on any questions about the Christian faith
2. Get to know other Christians in the frisbee community.
3. Give each other some accountability during tournaments. (Not in a bad way, but you know)
4. Ask about how to handle situations that come up regarding conflicts between frisbee and faith
5. Introduce topics for study, ie. we could have continuous threads running about various sections of the bible
6. Have general fellowship with each other
7. Make online prayer requests… if that’s not too awkward for people.
8. Introduce new people to the concepts and beliefs of Christianity
9. Challenge each other to really show God’s love to everyone!

It’s kinda primarily aimed at those who play at a tournament level, but open to anyone in the frisbee scene. No, you don’t have to be a Christian to join (but understand that this is what we’re on about).

If this sounds like something you might be keen to be a part of, check it out. Sign up, contribute.

And let me know what you think.

Unfortunately the underwater camera is out to pasture at the moment, having leaked at some point in the past. Not a great amount of fish at the moment, bar a big school out in the deeper section, and a Port Jackson Shark snoozing on the floor.

Elissa made the most of it, having a bit of a kip on the towel back up with Mum.

The reason?

The Games of the XXX Olympiad.

The Chinese have got something right though – Gymnastics rocks. When the Chinese men won the team event at the Olympics, the stadium was packed to the gills with fans cheering on their countrymen. The commentators likened it to the swimmers in Sydney, or to Cathy Freeman’s 400m. Watching the event, though, is far superior. You can see the thrills & spills, the effort on their faces – with swimming you get the reaction at the end as they see their time.

1500m is a long race to sit through with that as the end-point.

(A side note: with those sedition laws passed a while ago, does my patriotism now qualify me as a terrorist?)

Bible college pastime, ministry aid, tool of international diplomacy.

Penny Arcade reports: parts one/two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Gold.

If you watch closely, you can see

• the point where Matt tore/spasmed his quad/hip-flexor
• where we actually won
• me for a brief second, sitting next to the trophy

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[Courtesy Channel 9's Wide World of Sports]

Over the Anzac Day long weekend each year the Australian Ultimate Frisbee Championships are held, in both Open and Women’s divisions. This year was up in Coffs Harbour, which treated us to weather of all kinds over the 4 days.

Our club has a history of making finals – I think 5 out of the last 6 years one team from the club has made it through to the last day. This year, instead of splitting the club into two even teams (for development of younger and more inexperienced players), we took an A and B squad.

I made the A team… just. (There are lots of very good players in Fakulti.)

We stormed through the opening games pretty much unchallenged, with the closest games being 15-9. The final against Fyshwick United (Canberra) was much closer, with points trading until about 10 all. We eventually won 15-12 in a bit of a nail-biter, which the crowd appreciated. There’s nothing worse than turning up to a final only to see one team absolutely dominate (last year’s AFL final, anyone?).

So, finally, we’re national champions. I missed the awards ceremony as we made the trip back to Sydney a little earlier, leaving halfway through the Women’s final. So I only got my gold medal today. Here ’tis.

2008 Champions. Yay for us.

Calvin reading… check.

Hebrew translation… check.

Greek translation… check (well almost, but will be by tomorrow).

Time for a holiday. See you all in a week.

I was really excited, and despite the (freezing) cold, I thought I would go down for a quick dip to try it out. After all, we have had some decent weather over the last couple of days, as opposed to the raging storms over the last few weeks. Unfortunately, Clovelly was something of a cauldron of white water. I didn’t get to use my new camera – well, not underwater, at least.

Unfortunate. Next time, Gadget, next time.