Went for a walk with Giles and Tab this morning, along the Dandenong Creek

We started Wavemakers today with worship, then went into some stuff about making disciples and about how outreach is going out to people, not trying to drag them into the church. Kim got up and talked about The Junction, a church community he's leading in a pub, to reach out into pub culture.

Tonight we drove down to Dandenong, where we bought lunch at a certain fast food franchise, then walked to a park, where I sat and watched the skaters. The new skate park in Ballarat is going to be based on the one in Dandenong. I talked for a while to a Maori guy who was teaching his nephews to skate.
At the same time Harvey was talking to some men who were refugees from Afghanistan. Some of them had had tom leave their families behind until they had enough money for them to join them in Australia. One of them had studied theology in India, and had come to the conclusion that God is one.
Giles was talking to this guy while Tab played with his daughter in the sandpit. Carin was watching a game of touch football with two girls from New Zealand.
We eventually decided we should be getting back to the house, but there were two Muslim girls (they had headscarves on) playing basketball who Carin wanted to talk to, so the rest of decided we'd wait ten minutes at the picnic tables.
There was a couple from Adelaide there, who were travelling around Australia working on farms and stuff, something Laz wants to do some time soon. The woman (they were a heterosexual couple) grew up in Dandenong. Harvey talked to them for a while, while they cooked their dinner on the barbeque.
After about forty minutes I decided to go and see if Carin was nearly ready to go. The two girls Carin had been talking to were playing basketball again, and two other Muslim women were talking to Carin about how Osama bin Laden and George Bush make both our faiths look bad. I came over and they asked her if she belived I was superior to her because I'm male and she's female, and she said, 'No,' I and I agreed. They disagreed. They started saying how most Anglos think they're all terroists, and try to avoid them especially since that ignoramus from the Christian Democrats said that Muslim women shouldn't be allowed to wear headscarves because they could be using them to hide bombs. I said I thought that was stupid as well, because a bomb could be hidden in any kind of clothing. Then they pointed out how amusing it is that in most depictions of Mary she has a headsarf on. Apparently Islamic women see Mary as their prophet, because there are no female prophets recognised by Islam.
Giles, Tab and Harvey came over and said we had to go. Before we left, one of their kids, she looked about two years old asked Carin where God was. Carin said that God was everywhere. Then the kid asked if Giles was God, and Giles said, 'No.'