Could this be Australia's next Prime Minister? Check this out on YouTube ..
Gross ... :-|~
Daily Prayers
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Fishers Ghost Parade - Saturday
Calling all Catholics!
If you are up to a little walking, you are invited to come with us in the Fisher's Ghost parade this Saturday, the 3rd of November. We also need plenty of fit young people to carry the banners. We want as many people as possible to turn out for Jesus, so pass this message on to everyone you know.
Our march order number is 63 and our assembly area is the Old Campbelltown Showground - Entry via Queen Street into KING Street, Campbelltown. You must arrive at the assembly area before 12:00 noon.
Look for the bright blue WYD shirts! Bring water and wear comfortable shoes.
The parade will finish with the Combined Churches Family Fun Festival at Koshigaya Park.
If you are up to a little walking, you are invited to come with us in the Fisher's Ghost parade this Saturday, the 3rd of November. We also need plenty of fit young people to carry the banners. We want as many people as possible to turn out for Jesus, so pass this message on to everyone you know.
Our march order number is 63 and our assembly area is the Old Campbelltown Showground - Entry via Queen Street into KING Street, Campbelltown. You must arrive at the assembly area before 12:00 noon.
Look for the bright blue WYD shirts! Bring water and wear comfortable shoes.
The parade will finish with the Combined Churches Family Fun Festival at Koshigaya Park.
Sunday, 28 October 2007
Some Recent Youth Events at our Church
Hi:
Thought you might like to look at some recent youth events at our church. Pics and Vids at:
http://stjohncampbelltown.blogspot.com/2007/10/2007-10-youthfest-pics-and-vids.html
and
http://stjohncampbelltown.blogspot.com/2007/10/cyc-october-pics-and-vids.html
Peace
Sean
Thought you might like to look at some recent youth events at our church. Pics and Vids at:
http://stjohncampbelltown.blogspot.com/2007/10/2007-10-youthfest-pics-and-vids.html
and
http://stjohncampbelltown.blogspot.com/2007/10/cyc-october-pics-and-vids.html
Peace
Sean
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Some Election Thoughts
I don't think I believe the polling results or some of the reader comments.
To those who fret about work choices impacting their job: surely it is better to have a job with work choices than no job at all. To those who don't see the ALP-Union connection: It was always thus, this is why the party was formed. To those who think Rudd is just a younger version of Howard with the same policies: Who will he copy those policies from if he wins the election? To those who think that the economy is bullet proof: look what happened to the Australian economy from 72-75 and 92-96.
To those who fret about work choices impacting their job: surely it is better to have a job with work choices than no job at all. To those who don't see the ALP-Union connection: It was always thus, this is why the party was formed. To those who think Rudd is just a younger version of Howard with the same policies: Who will he copy those policies from if he wins the election? To those who think that the economy is bullet proof: look what happened to the Australian economy from 72-75 and 92-96.
Monday, 15 October 2007
WYD 2008 - Meeting Notes 20071007
Notes from WYD team Meeting
Sunday 07.10.2007
6pm
St John's Parish Hall Meeting Room
1. Opening Prayer - WYD Song
2. Attendance - Sean Donovan, Greg Simoni, Yuti Diack, Clayton Diack, Dianne Byrnes, Carolyn Baragry, Kylie Moody, Marylyn Elias, Ivanna Goodall, John Verhoeven
Apologies - Mary Law, Erin Byrnes, Kerry McDonald, Pat and Mick Webb, Craig Cockroft
3. Reports
a. Prohibited Employment Declaration Forms - JV
b. Treasurer's Report - CB. Cash at hand from shirt sales $400.
c. Media Report - GS. Examples of local media coverage tabled. Dates for Youth Events distributed to local churches, schools and media. Noted that the term break at the schools hampered getting the message out.
4. Promotions/Fundraisers
a. Shirts/Hats - SD. Shirts now available. Noted the need to order additional small and medium sizes as these have run out. Will enquire about bucket hats with embroidered logo.
b. Other materials/hats - JV. Advised still need to follow up on these items. Another source for some fundraising items was also found at Brookvale and will be contacted.
c. Bunnings BBQ - CD advised that the Bunnings BBQ can be booked for Saturday or Sunday for fundraising. Bunnings provide BBQ and gas, the group would provide all food and drink. Would need to staff from 9am to 3pm and clean-up. $50 deposit required which is returned following return of the cleaned BBQ. Need to show parish public liability insurance to book. JV to provide to CD. Agreed to book a Saturday each month starting from January.
d. Fundraising Week - YD suggested a fundraising week, perhaps a chocolate drive or Krispy Kreme. DB to investigate Cadbury Chocolate fundraisers.
e. Banner - CB/CD. Agreed on the CYC name and design. Will proceed to organise banner prior to YouthFest.
5. Youth Group
a. Veritas Shirts - CD. Agreed to proceed with a few of these screen printed shirts ahead of the YouthFest. Estimated sale price about $20.
b. Future Youth Group Dates - JV provided a list of all the future CYC dates to the end of 2008.
6. Upcoming Events
a. CYC Event 21st October
- Estimate 25 people will attend.
- Talk to be given by WYD team members following masses next weekend with handouts following mass. WYD shirts to be worn so people recognise the team. JV will prepare an overhead slide. Vigil - GS, 7.30am - EB, 9am - KM, 10am - CD/YD, 5pm - GS
- CD/YD will organise food. It was noted that food purchased could be frozen and may cover both the CYC and YouthFest. "Oldies" to handle BBQ while the youth group meeting is in progress.
- CD advised that Karin Ransden and Sari Blenkinsopp will give testimony and run the central hour of the meeting.
- GS advised that the church rock group had agreed to play. It was suggested that the band could play prior to the testimonies, as people arrive, and then during the BBQ.
- GS/YD to complete an agenda for the evening and circulate.
b. YouthFest 27th October
- Tabled letters from Christy Honeysett outlining the format of the evening. Estimated 80 people to attend. Need for us to cater and youth group members to meet/greet arrivals.
- We need to find accomodation for the 12 members of the NET ministry for the Saturday night. JV to raise with MW/PW to see if homestay volunteers can provide.
c. Fishers Ghost Parade Saturday 3rd November and Street Fair Saturday 10th November - CB.
d. Parish "New Year" Bush Dance - Saturday 24th November
e. Journey of the Cross in Campbelltown - Wednesday 26th March
f. WYD08 week - Monday 14th July to Sunday 20 July
6. Positions Vacant
a. Transport co-ordinator - Still vacant
7. Closing Prayer
Next Meeting Sunday 21st October 6pm (during the youth group meeting)
6pm
St John's Parish Hall Meeting Room
1. Opening Prayer - WYD Song
2. Attendance - Sean Donovan, Greg Simoni, Yuti Diack, Clayton Diack, Dianne Byrnes, Carolyn Baragry, Kylie Moody, Marylyn Elias, Ivanna Goodall, John Verhoeven
Apologies - Mary Law, Erin Byrnes, Kerry McDonald, Pat and Mick Webb, Craig Cockroft
3. Reports
a. Prohibited Employment Declaration Forms - JV
b. Treasurer's Report - CB. Cash at hand from shirt sales $400.
c. Media Report - GS. Examples of local media coverage tabled. Dates for Youth Events distributed to local churches, schools and media. Noted that the term break at the schools hampered getting the message out.
4. Promotions/Fundraisers
a. Shirts/Hats - SD. Shirts now available. Noted the need to order additional small and medium sizes as these have run out. Will enquire about bucket hats with embroidered logo.
b. Other materials/hats - JV. Advised still need to follow up on these items. Another source for some fundraising items was also found at Brookvale and will be contacted.
c. Bunnings BBQ - CD advised that the Bunnings BBQ can be booked for Saturday or Sunday for fundraising. Bunnings provide BBQ and gas, the group would provide all food and drink. Would need to staff from 9am to 3pm and clean-up. $50 deposit required which is returned following return of the cleaned BBQ. Need to show parish public liability insurance to book. JV to provide to CD. Agreed to book a Saturday each month starting from January.
d. Fundraising Week - YD suggested a fundraising week, perhaps a chocolate drive or Krispy Kreme. DB to investigate Cadbury Chocolate fundraisers.
e. Banner - CB/CD. Agreed on the CYC name and design. Will proceed to organise banner prior to YouthFest.
5. Youth Group
a. Veritas Shirts - CD. Agreed to proceed with a few of these screen printed shirts ahead of the YouthFest. Estimated sale price about $20.
b. Future Youth Group Dates - JV provided a list of all the future CYC dates to the end of 2008.
6. Upcoming Events
a. CYC Event 21st October
- Estimate 25 people will attend.
- Talk to be given by WYD team members following masses next weekend with handouts following mass. WYD shirts to be worn so people recognise the team. JV will prepare an overhead slide. Vigil - GS, 7.30am - EB, 9am - KM, 10am - CD/YD, 5pm - GS
- CD/YD will organise food. It was noted that food purchased could be frozen and may cover both the CYC and YouthFest. "Oldies" to handle BBQ while the youth group meeting is in progress.
- CD advised that Karin Ransden and Sari Blenkinsopp will give testimony and run the central hour of the meeting.
- GS advised that the church rock group had agreed to play. It was suggested that the band could play prior to the testimonies, as people arrive, and then during the BBQ.
- GS/YD to complete an agenda for the evening and circulate.
b. YouthFest 27th October
- Tabled letters from Christy Honeysett outlining the format of the evening. Estimated 80 people to attend. Need for us to cater and youth group members to meet/greet arrivals.
- We need to find accomodation for the 12 members of the NET ministry for the Saturday night. JV to raise with MW/PW to see if homestay volunteers can provide.
c. Fishers Ghost Parade Saturday 3rd November and Street Fair Saturday 10th November - CB.
d. Parish "New Year" Bush Dance - Saturday 24th November
e. Journey of the Cross in Campbelltown - Wednesday 26th March
f. WYD08 week - Monday 14th July to Sunday 20 July
6. Positions Vacant
a. Transport co-ordinator - Still vacant
7. Closing Prayer
Next Meeting Sunday 21st October 6pm (during the youth group meeting)
Friday, 12 October 2007
An Interesting Graph - Lib/Lab
An Interesting Graph!
I was playing around with the Google Trends graphs again and came up with the following result that I found intriguing.
The top graph shows the searches on Google for Liberal and Labor, which are roughly the same. The bottom graph, however, shows that quite a lot more news articles are being written about labor than about liberal.
There seems to be a large disconnect between the information that people are looking for and what they are being given by the official media. Interesting. Does someone have an agenda here?
I was playing around with the Google Trends graphs again and came up with the following result that I found intriguing.
 | liberal |  | labor |
The top graph shows the searches on Google for Liberal and Labor, which are roughly the same. The bottom graph, however, shows that quite a lot more news articles are being written about labor than about liberal.
There seems to be a large disconnect between the information that people are looking for and what they are being given by the official media. Interesting. Does someone have an agenda here?
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Greetings LeatherJackets!
Greetings LeatherJackets!
A short update on what's happening at Liverpool Masters Swimming ...
1. The 50m outside pool is open! We started outside last week and the water temperature is marvellous. It seems the new pool managers are actually using the heater. Great stuff!
2. Hills Carnival entries are due in this week (see the attached flyer). Let me know what events you would like to enter and give me the entry fee tonight or next week. Sadly no-one was able to make the State Champ's in Canberra, so this is our big opportunity to make amends.
3. Social Outing: Dinner at "La Vita" 1/71 Hoxton Park Rd, Liverpool, Ph: 9601 0155 on Friday 26th October. Please RSVP with numbers to Liz at ebuscaino@hello.net.au
4. New members for 2008 can join now and be registered through to the end of next year. Let yout friends know.
Unfortunately the Australian and New Zealand Rugby teams didn't hold up their ends, so the much aniticipated semi-final matchup won't be happening. Sadly having a night out to watch the Poms and Frogs go around doesn't have the same aura.
See you in the pool!
Sean
Friday, 5 October 2007
One of my associates is fond of 'sharing' Crikey articles with me, despite my lack of enthusiasm.
I am sure Crikey would generate much more interest if it talked about the matters of real importance to the average Aussie battler. Below are graphs from Google’s trend analysis (a useful tool they have introduced with their Election 2007 coverage) that demonstrates Cricket (seasonal), Education, Football (seasonal) and Health are the items that people are really looking for information about. The lower graph indicates the corresponding number of news articles written about these categories (clearly the media in general need to have a hard look at themselves, particularly in regard to Cricket).
education
health
football
cricket
I can put these into further perspective by correlating them against the typical “big issues” that get talked of by Crikey and others. These happen to be the ones that Google has as default options. Here is the graph of these items against each other.
interest rates
climate change
economy
industrial relations
This looks impressive! But when we throw in cricket we begin to see how important these things are to the average Joe.
interest rates
climate change
economy
industrial relations
cricket
And yet there are soo maaany articles written in the news about the economy.
Power to the people, I say! Let them have Cricket, not Crikey!
Libera Veritas!
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
WYD 2008 meeting
world youth day sydney 2008
campbelltown team news
campbelltown team news
Only 286 days to go before WYD08
campbelltown team meeting - You are invited to join the Campbelltown WYD08 team this Sunday at 6pm, right after 5pm mass. Join in the Youth Group, Promotions, and Home Stay teams. Organising for the upcoming youth event and Fisher's Ghost.
team shirts and caps - Campbelltown WYD team shirts and caps are on the way. Shirt and cap pack only $40 in sizes XXL, XL, L and M. Please send your order to Sean Donovan at smp.donovan@gmail.com and payments to Carolyn Baragry.
Upcoming events:
* Saturday 27th October - Youth Event Macarthur
* Saturday 3 November - Festival of Fisher's Ghost Street Parade
* Saturday 10 November - Festival of Fisher's Ghost Street Fair
Next Year
* 26/27 March - Journey of the Cross in Campbelltown, Overnight vigil at St John's
* 15-20 July - WYD week
Check out the web sites at
http://www.wyd2008.org
http://www.dow.org.au/wyd2008/home/
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