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Re PTC Mission 2010 again, one of the candidates compiled statistics for the week. Door Knocking Out of 878 doors we knocked on, 555 were not home (63%), 240 said no thanks (74% of those who were home), and 83 conversations were held. In other words, about 1 in 10 spoke to us. Of the [...]

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If anyone was interested in knowing more about PTC’s 2010 mission, here is a summary done by one of the candidates, Phil Court: Mission to Hume. Here is a picture, too (but I have omitted the photos showing the Sunday evening youth event). For the doorknocking and busstopping, we did the old questionnaire routinue: ‘My [...]

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I’ve had a few people leave ping backs on my blog. Not sure what that means, but I approved them all the same. One of them took me to a blog by an Associate Reformed pastor in the U.S., Tim Phillips. The photo of the Baptist Church advertising that it is ‘Yes, A Liberal Church’, [...]

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I was on college mission all last week – a week of evangelism based at Hume Presbyterian in the northern suburbs (near Melbourne airport). It was a great week, with a lot of doorknocking and speaking to people at local bustops – particularly Muslims and Italian Roman Catholics. The candidates were energetic and engaged, and [...]

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Welcome to my ‘new’ website/blog. It’s the same as my old website/blog, except that it’s hosted on a different server, and the address is slightly different. I’m paying three bucks a month to host my own websites and domains through justhost.com. Absolutely rapt with the deal. I’m hosting my own blog (http://jared.hoodfamily.org.au), my wife’s blog (http://cassiescuddles.hoodfamily.org.au), my [...]

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Kudos to Nathan Bingham. I’m not much of a blogger, but I came across Nathan’s microblog the other day: http://nwbingham.com/    Speaking to him at college, it sounds like I’m probably the last person to know that he has run some popular blogs. Well done, Nathan. You might inspire me to take this blogging thing [...]

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