Aussie Joy's Life

Yesterday was a bit of an emotionally daunting day… (thus the failure to blog!) We came over to my bros house for power and brekky… The floods waters had begun to subside and I got really restless and hated the thought of sitting around and doing nothing.  The night before I had posted a blog [...]

It’s so surreal saying things like “The flood peak is expected 5 hours from now in the Brisbane river” and “now is the time to evacuate” … Scott McDonald Last night, Ipswich was inundated with the murky, brown sea of water.  At 2am, the two guys stranded at my house (Dave – Easterfest work colleague and Andrew his friend [...]

What an incredibly effective awareness video!

I’m sitting at ‘Classic Coffee’ in the quaint city of Glendora grateful to see the June gloom clearing and the sun beginning to shine and California become all that it known for! I’ve been back  in the United States from Sierra Leone now for just a couple of days recovering from jetlag and catching up [...]

I’m writing tonight from the ‘Harmony Hotel’ (highly recommend this place if you ever come here. Its close to the airport, run by a honest Christian man who understands Western Culture) in Lungi, Sierra Leone. I’m lathered in mosquito repellant and have just finished watching the British tie in the World Cup against Algeria with [...]

Today I got to visit a school for the International Day of the African Child. In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in 1976, in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught [...]

The story of how I ended up on this flight to Sierra Leone, Western Africa… Ever since Mark Warren from Global Benefit made me watch the movie, Blood Diamond and getting to know ‘Robert and Ruth Searches’ who work with Living Waters International (LWI) in Sierra Leone I’ve felt a stirring in my heart to [...]

Today, my roomate Mandy and I joined ‘Hands on Nashville’ to help clean up Nashville after this past weekends notorious flood.  Potentially over one billion dollars worth of damage! It’s so unbelievable driving through ‘normal’ neighbourhoods and seeing basically entire contents of people’s homes in a sopping, decaying mess out on the curbside awaiting disposal. [...]

Well, this past weekend I’ve been with Alabaster Box in Buffalo and Rochester in Western New York – about 800 miles from the devastation hitting Nashville, Tennessee and surrounding areas.  It seems to have made national and international news all around the world… The photos here are taken out the window driving through… the river [...]

We’ve all heard of the tragic earthquake that hit Haiti over a month ago… but have we thought of the implications of such a horrific disaster? Not sure if you’ve seen this or know how bad it really is down there but this sermon by Mark Driscoll called Helping Haiti is highly worth watching. It’s [...]