Thursday, October 12
A little word about life...
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Flickr Rocks
Notice a new flickr feature this morning, you can place pictures on a
map. so now all my pics have a location on the globe, just click the
map link under any picture to see where it is...awesome.
you can also explore the globe and see people pictures
anywhere...amazing
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Monday, October 2
Finished in Africa
Lets start with what we did, and then will be my thoughts about what
we did...
so each day in the morning we would go to a prision, do a two hour
program, then spend maybe an hour talking to people before going to
get lunch, do some shopping, maybe something in the afternoon, prob a
team meeting at some point, and dinner, maybe something in the evening.
So prision visting wise...
we went each friday to the single cells block of pollsmoor, and did a
"devotion" there, with people from that block, but also from nearby
blocks of 18-21 year olds, with a mix of sentaced and unsentaced
people. basicaly a two hour program of worship, teaching, drama, and
time when the prisioners would share things. we also told
testomonies, played games, alex did some magic tricks etc.
On the first saturday we went to drakenstein, were the guys put on a
program, in which we did nothing, except say hello. much as devotion,
but there there was a band which did fantastic worship. We also went
there on the last tuesday and did a devotion for people there.
The second saturday we went to devona, a youth detention centre, much
like prision, but easyir to escape from, and they are nicer to you.
more younger people there, and people with fairly short sentance's.
we did a devotion there.
On mondays we went to B4, a section of pollsmoor for sentaced
16-19/20 years olds where we did another devotion. but this is also
the place we went every other day, and lead a program. The other days
were similar, with worship, teaching, drama, etc. but only for a
hour, and then the second hour was with smaller groups, discusing
everything more closely and generaly getting to know people more
closely. there are about 80 peps in that section, and we worked with
largely the same group of about 50, small groups were about 15.
What else?pollsmoor is about 20 mins from adrians place, a big
overcrowed prision of about 7000 prisioners. there are 3 main
sections, the juvinial section, mens, and womens. we only visited the
juvinal sections.
Drakenstain is out in the county, about an hour away, about 2000 in
total, about 600 in the juvinal section, we had a group of about 50
there.
I feel i have gained alot more than i gave, i saw things and
experience things i have never come into contact with before. the
whole three weeks there were new places, new people.
I think i have said this whereever i have been away from home on
missions, but something really special is to worship and meet with
God in different ways and in different situations. Its great to be
10000km away for home and still find the same amazing God, doing the
same things and different things. To see the work of god in indivuals
so far away, give some idea of how imense god is, he has plans for
everyone, and for my three weeks just to go and be a tiny part of
that for all the people i met there.
One of my favourite time's in prision was at the end of our programs,
hanging around and talking to people, finding out about them and
there stories and also to talk about what there heard that day and
trying to get people to do something about what they were hearing.
Like one guy, jason, who kept saying he wanted to change, he wanted
to give is life to god, but he was still involved in gang stuff,
getting in fights etc. and in fact he missed one day 'cause he was in
a fight the night before.
It was also strange to talk to people in prision, they are there for
many things, and they have all done worse things that they werent
caught for, but they are just normal people, we can chat, and play
football, in one prision there was a fantastic band, they play pool,
and we can worship god together. Something really went wrong that
they got involved in gangs and stuff and are now in prision.
Another thing we saw was how much work there is to do in the prision,
and outside, and how few are the workers. And how people like Adrian
and Sybil go everyday and yet they still say the results are few, and
there is so much they cant do, there just isnt enough people.
Something i heard about whilst i was there, which is really cool was
when some christian prisioners went to another section and told about
God, and 17 gangsters repented. They are now trying to work with them
and stuff. but i though how great that prisioners could evanglese
each other, within the prision. when that happens more i think
amazing things could happen.
Anther interesting thing was to be in South Africa, and see for my
self the country we used to hear about and learn about in history at
school, about the apartid. Its was weird, 'cause its "finished", and
you no longer hear about South Africa on the news you assue
everything is fine and sorted, but really there is still a huge
sepertation between the race's, and there is alot of fear etc. you
can also see the big problems that have been caused and new problems
as the goverment trys to even things out. The country has many
problems, one reason why so many youths are in the prision, and you
can see its gonna take along time to recover.
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Thursday, September 28
Лёша
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Tuesday, September 26
The Big Ending
Hey Everyone!
So here I am again, i think the forth time, this time on a plane
flying to Kiev, yes, its nearly over.
And what do you guys wanna know? well we had a great time, saw God do
many things, and, yea, I think this mission has changed my life, as
well as hopefully, a few prisoner's lives. I don't know how many of
their lives will change, certainly there have been change's in
character, and many people sound alot closer to Jesus than ever
before, but as i said to the guys when we left, i hope to see as many
of them as possible in eternity, but I don't know...we'll find out
when we are there.
I have proberly said much of this before, in one of my many blog
post's, but for me it has just been fantastic to be 10000km away from
home, sharing and worshipping the same God, who is the same
everywhere. I have met some really encoraging people, a 20ish year
old who has 42 years ahead of him, but i rejoicing in the work the
Lord has given him to do i the prison. Another guy who has been in
for about 10 years i think, has set up a...place...in the prison
where he ministers and teaches about Christ, he is going home soon,
about 6 months left, but he is in no hurry to get out, and wants to
go back and work in the prison when he is released.
...more to follow, but im tired and well, yea, i'll be back...
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Friday, September 15
More from SA
Hey everyone, so as any of you who read my normal blog will know, im not very good at the whole blogging thing, i dont write very often etc, but here i am again, live from South Africa, with more news of happenings here.
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Saturday, September 9
Mission In Africa
hello!
so today was the second day in prision, today was a really encoraging
session in a different prision, Drakenstien, about 100km from cape
town. There the christian prisioners put on a program of worship and
testamonies. Its was really great to worship with the guys, they made
us feel realy confortalble and and welcomed, Some of the guys have
amazing stories of the change's god made in their lives, how they
have come into prision having robbed, been in fights, many have
killed people, but they have changed compleatly, and have been remade
in God. And there is a real feeling of freedom in many people, some
have upto 40 years in prision yet to come, but feel that God has a
purpose for them where they are. One guys who has 4-6 years left said
he really isnt in a hurry to leave because of the great things he is
doing with oher inmates in the prison
Well that is all for now, more updates later
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Friday, September 8
Hey, from South Africa
Hey People, some of you (dave to name just one) have been complaining
about a lack of...enfusiasm regarding our blogs and the lack of
post's since we arrived here. well some of that can be atributed to a
lack of internet connection, but that has now, at least for me been
solved...so here i amToday was our 3rd day here in Cape Town and was another great day. So
far each day since we arrived we have had a little meeting in the
mornings, discusing the culture, history etc of South Africa, and
also about prision life, about the gangs that work inside and the
atitude of prisioners. we have also found out alot more about what we
will be doing, though i will save that for tomorrow when i will
actually have been there.So this evening im quite excited about tomorrow, going into prision
for the first time and actually seeing what is happening. im excited
about the opportunity to talk about Christ and God with people. but
im abit wary(wery, i have no idea how to spell that word, im worry
about...) the language thing, 'cause although they speak english,
they dont speak it the same way as we do...there is a guy who live's
with adrian and its often very hard to understand what he's saying,
but apparently he speaks lots better than some of the guys in the
prision...so, well, i will find out tomorrow, i dont like to worry
about things, and as im mostly sleeping between now and when we get
there, im not gonna worry much about this.Ok peps, see you around, i will try and write about what happend
tomorrow
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Tuesday, August 29
Im still here
Hey there, so im alive and well, life is good, lots of fun and games. Ive not been online for nearly a month now...and this is only the second post since i arrived here in ukraine...weird
well yea, not much is happening...went to the sea 2 weeks ago and am going to africa on monday...there will be more to tell after that...
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Saturday, July 29
I've Arived In Ukriane
Hey all...
so this is my first mail from ukraine...i've put together a list of
people who i thought would be interested, so if you've got this and
your not, just tell me and if you know any one else who would like to
see this, again tell me. also all mail's will be on my blog - http://
blog.phoneybible.org
So, your all wondering...hows it going? what are you doing?
the first thing here was the summer camp, MI6, which about 75 young
people took part in, along with 35 or so leaders from ukraine, uk,
us, belurus and tajikistan. it was an evangelistic camp, the aim
being to bring lot of new people to christ. and it was lots of
fun...as you can see - http://mi6.kreativity.org and http://
www.flickr.com/photos/fedr
Well the MI6 camp finished on monday and teams from the US, Uk and
belurus went home on wednesday. Since then i've been staying at david
bute's house, with the tajik team, doing a few things. but most of
life will get under way next week when they have gone hope and things
calm down abit.
Thursday/Friday morning, i cant remeber which..i went out and got a
place to stay in. a 2 room apartment...a very nice one and really
cheap for what it is. i currently trying to find someone who wants to
stay in the othrer room. ill probably move in tomorrow/
monday...somewhen soon...like i say im at dave's with the tajik's
right now and its kinda fun so im in no hurry to go.
So..thats about all for now..monday will be a day of chatting about
what life is gonna constist of, so thats something to pray for. also
biggest prayer request of them all is for my learning of russian.
since everyone went home on wednesday very little english is spoken
and i have little idea what is going on most of the time...basic
things are coming along...slowly, but really, the more prayer the
better. also for a room mate, and getting to know people, hanging out
with people..
Fred
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Thursday, July 6
More of the previous
actually, in exploring futher, just watch them all, its amazing. thou the begginning bit gets a bit annoying...
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Wednesday, July 5
Tuesday, July 4
Cliff Jumping
So today, a nice day out to the sea...a walk down to the cliffs, but just before the bottom...lets stop here, light up the bbq and whilst waiting, jump 25 foot in to the water...fun as
nate even did the 60 foot edition...abit much one thinks, but a good day out
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Thursday, June 29
Bob Dylan
so yesterday, i saw bob dylan live, down in old bournmouth...much fun, lots of crazy old people there. and bob dylan...its was just so much fun...seriously hte best harmonica player out there...
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Wednesday, June 21
Golden Man
This is our latest video, abit random, but much fun.
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Video's
Hey everyone...yep im stll here, just not spending so many bored hours at college...but anyway...
im very sorry about the mess with the videos its all abit crazy, we have now apeared on video.google.com and will shortly be on youtube.com, the website and links will be updated soon...
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Friday, June 16
Friday, June 2
Thursday, May 25
Cool As
this is like google maps, only better. more detail and maps of most of the known world. even does a birds eye view of my house...
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Next Morning
so i wake up this morning. new site is looking all good. not so good now at collge, with internet explorer, but hey what can you do...
so make sure you update you podcast (click the subscribe link on ether page, or both)
make sure you look though the archive, there are films you wont have seen before
make sure you listen to our songs,they rock
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The New Video Deparment
Today a new website has been created, for Monster studios. its great, at least i hope it is as its still uploadiing, should be done by morning, so check it out...
You'll find all the video's you'll ever want to see, and all the music you'll ever want to listen to.
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Tuesday, May 16
Good Morning
So err, its been awhile, im sorry about that, i guess i've just been busy...having a life, unlike now...
I've just been away with the living room. had a great time. there was an awesome speaker, call hugo (www.grassroots.org.uk...im not sure). so yea we were staying in this massive house in dorset...called charntmall, was really nice .
other than that not alot is happening. im mostly looking forward to leaving the country in a month!
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Friday, April 28
Friday, April 21
The Big Chase
This is what we did on thursday afternoon...its great, edited this eve and here it is, for the world to see. This stars Alex Chart, great friend of ours making his debu on Monster Studios. He hasnt seen this yet but im sure he will soon. so, get downloading viewers...
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Thursday, April 20
How to feed 5000 People
So here i am, back from my travels abroad and sat in college on a rainy thursday morning.
Belgum was fun. to be honest there isnt much happening in brussels...a few pubs, shops etc. didnt buy any chocolate, but did have loads of nice belgum beers, they make some nice stuff over there. but really brussels was lacking in entertainment, esp as we were on abit of a budget (ie dont spend unless you realy have to). some fun was had on the metro/tram and trying to find our way home. we also played french ckricket in the woods just outside brus.
i read recently about how jesus "walked on water". some people rekcon he might have been walking on ice flows. not wanting to dis the "scientists" to much, but surly, in the desert, ie big hot place, doesnt seem all the likly...
and following on from this, talking to simon phipps, we developed a (far more plosable) phery of how jesus fed 5000 people with only five loves of bread and 2 (i think) fish.
Basicaly, take just the last bit of french stick, and but back in the bag. you now have a rabbit/bird killing thing... now just leave the fish out near a convenient rabbit hole and (a bit like "splat the rat" and other similar church fete atractions) hit them over the head, sorted...
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Tuesday, April 11
Travel. Be it international, interplanetery or where ever...
yo there fred watchers,
hows life on the wild side? done anything insane yet this week?
im going to belgium tomorrow!! yes thats right folks, BELGIUM!!!!
any hitch hiker fans should have already turned away in disgust, and no doubt the rest of you wont be far behind.
profanities such as that just shouldnt be treated with such casual abandon. Its not right or proper.
If you know me, (fred) you'll no doubt appreciate the extent to which indecent language and behaviour offends me.
and get this, these crazy european mainlanders went and named their country with this word!! whats that about?
"why belgium?" i hear you cry. and of course, i dont really have a good answer... we're going to hunt nutella, the BIG jars.
these jars are, " big. REALLY big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big" they are "I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to" these jars of nutella.
so its a pretty important trip you see...
if you have any particularly worthwhile opinions on the subjects of a) nutella
b) Belgium or
c) The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (not the film, yeauch)
then let me know, and i'll have a look, have a laugh and maybe even publish one or two... but probably not.
over and out
Fred VI
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Saturday, April 1
Today
its april to today...how strange is that, i forgot to do anything as in april fools...jens not working so rob is unhappy about not being able to go mock her..and now we are listneing to queen...thats cool. rob hasnt listened to this in ages aparently...
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Today
its april to today...how strange is that, i forgot to do anything as in april fools...jens not working so rob is unhappy about not being able to go mock her..and now we are listneing to queen...thats cool. rob hasnt listened to this in ages aparently...
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Disturbing
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Friday, March 31
Holiday
so here we are, just finished college and going out to the first frisbee game of the year...its gonna be awesome!! just 20 mins to go...everyone is coming, even tim hodder is back and playing...shame about tj and sam, but hey what can you do...oh i love frisbee
ps make sure you check out Ninja (below) its great (its not frisbee, but its still good)
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Wednesday, March 29
Tuesday, March 28
Friday, March 24
Photo's
so today i uploaded a whole load of photos to flickr, from lukes 18th, chris p's, and some random ones from my phone. take a look!
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Tuesday, March 21
Also
also coming soon is the follow up to pete, pedro...
oh the suspense...
and thank you CT (yea i know who you are) for your comments, you may well be my only reader
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Today
Ok, this link is actaully alittle old, i read it on friday, but hey, its funny particaly the first one.
my ipod should be coming back today having not worked for ages, im so looking forward to having it back at last.
jons trying to think of someithng profond to say...
"when life gets you down, try getting life down" - Jon Caws
isnt that great...
oh,yea, i must apologis for any offense caused by "Luke Pollard Teaches Dating", many people have been complaining about the last section...so hopefully today, or tomorrow, a new, "directors cut", will be replacing it, and making it sutible for all audience's.
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Thursday, March 16
Another Shorty
Yea this is short, but cool, i like it and i didnt even make it, mike did! aly did the sound or so he says...
what else can i write today...mike passed his test!! how cool is that...we went to the forest for a drive and a run around oh the fun we're gonna have. laser guns, films...yea
still have seen lukey p, i reckon he's prob abit miffed, espes as al made abit of a mess of his garden.
i finished my computing c/w, thats cool, no more work for me....and i got thou to national finals of computing olimpiad, w/e it is, im not really sure but it sounds cool, not sure if im gonna go, 2 days in cambrige with a bunch of geeks...oh well. take a look at pete..
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Saturday, March 11
Friday, March 10
Podcast
Our Podcast is now up and running, will appear in teh itunes directory in the next couple of days, as soon as apple sort it out...and yea, our newest stuff is coming as i type..yea baby!
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Guatanamo
This thing is joke, they run around the world, telling people what to do, being the worlds police, and yet, they are still breaking the rules themselves...someone, probalbly with a big army, needs to so something about it...
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Exams
so yea, got the old winter exam results today, didnt do to badly...still on course for straight A's...s'cool...unfortunatly mike beat me in both of them
but then (refering to the link) maybe im doing well 'cause im in a larger college, i cant beliave a larger college is over 250 students, there are over 2500 here, we must be doing very well...
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Thursday, March 9
so some thing else
something else that annoys me is stupid american dates, the day goes first then the month, not the otherway around
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Luke Pollard Day
TODAY, we made luke pollard's birthday present, unfortunatly i can post it right now, but its coming soon,"Luke Pollards Guide To Dating".
Also today, it rained.
Doesnt the whole iran thing just hack you off, america are blatenly just gonna blow them up and should just get on with it.
Aly got hacked off today.Nothing was going right...so put the scal-pul down aly, now!
A good thing thou, today was the second day i went to college this week. so far i've missed 7 of my 15 lessons a week.
i think that'll do. lukey p up next...
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Sunday, March 5
Flaming Fury
Yea, this another of our "cool" video's (dont worry the better ones are coming soon). but hey, have a look, get a feel for whats coming...So, basicaly, this was gonna be a tennis ball cannon, thats the long tube, but it wasnt great, fired about 3m once, but yea sucked, but! if you put lots and lots nad lots of lighter fuel in the bottom, you get an awsome flame!! as seen...
We've just played risk, it was fun, till i lost...
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Saturday, March 4
Lumpy
not much to say about him, other than, he's lumpy, and he looks angery, just like i was...
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nick crane
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Friday, March 3
Im Angery
this isnt a good day, my email from my phone isnt working, meaning my exceptionaly cool lumpy post isnt here, also apple, idiots, send off my pod for repairs, today they send me a mail saying its coming back and that it was find, like, duh! you think im stupid, its broken, thats why i sent it to you, but of course there is no email address i can reply to...so its gonna come back, not work and uhh, im so annoyed.
slightly cooler, serch for anger, and i find a place called anger, also a map thing that can give me directions from southampton to chercassy, taking exactly 32h01, with infomation of roadworks on the way, thats cool,
also, mike (mc, see below is very proud of his prime number generator, it sucks, it took ages and claims it took 0.17 seconds, mmm, sothing is wrong
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Thursday, March 2
Mc
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Snow!
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Monday, February 27
Going to Ukraine
on saturday, had a nice meeting of people who are probably gonna come to ukraine in the summer, awsome! that was cool.
didnt do much else this weekend
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£270
Yesterday at work, someone spent £270 on food, in budgens, thats crazy...that's a hell of a lot of food...dude!
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Friday, February 24
Phoneybible
I feel i should just mention this...its a little project of mine, the bible for your mobile phone. No-one else had do it, so i did, its now at version 4, the last 3 sucked, but this is, abit, better. so yea, go join the millions *cough*, who are downloading it (and give me money!).
btw, there are nearly 3000 download's a week, it is that good...
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£50m
What would you do with £50m?
- Buy Lots of stuff!!! new tele, car, house, probaly a small island!
- Give it to charity? yea whatever
- Invest it?but whats the point, you've got 50m, do you really want more...
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Hello
Hmm...First blog ever...this is interesting...Well, the point of this blog is unclear at the moment, probaly will be little used, and certanly no one will read it. But hey, what can you do...
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