Feeling left out: Hunter Harvest and Bandy

[David Powell]

I was surprised how much mention of 'my club' was important to me in watching this program. I remembered seeing the smiling faces of those youth group leaders and hearing the word 'Uniting'. And I remembered waiting for the same word from that Presbyterian minister who listed a long string of participating denominations. It didn't appear.   So perhaps indeed it was grassroots support, but not institutional.   I'm more interested in why that distressed me so much, because, like others in this thread, I personally don't connect with this type of thing. Maybe it's the irony of a church labelled "Uniting" that misses participation in a uniting event.   It's a similar feeling to the one I got when I realised that the Bandy programme is being sponsored by all our surrounding states including South Australia, but 'my club' (NSW Synod in this case) has opted out. Our Sydney Presbytery Mission Officer is trooping off to participate, and Bandy's thinking has influenced his reports and I guess the mission plan we're developing. So I guess I'd better try to find a copy of his book. Here in this forum there was the start of a debate on some reasons why Bandy might be off-the-mark theologically, and for that contribution I'm thankful. But the debate didn't seem to go very far.  Maybe it's too hard for us all to get the book.  (I was ignorant enough to contribute ideas based only on that contributor's remarks!)   David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Niall McKay Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Insights List Subject: Re: Hunter Harvest was - What is christiansonline.com.au Excellent Judy!!! thanks so much you netizen you! Judy Redman wrote: Just had a look at the transcript and found the following:    Unprecedented cooperation from over 200 churches in the Hunter region - from Catholics to Pentecostals, Uniting to Assemblies of God - resulted in four evenings of music and prayer, culminating in sermons by US preacher Greg Laurie from California�s Harvest Ministries. (From Geraldine Doogue's intro)    and   ALISON SKINNER AND LUKE YOUMANS: I�m Alison Skinner and this is Luke Youmans. We�re the youth group leaders at St Paul�s Church Stockton Uniting Church. It�s called �Elevate�, our youth group and basically we�ve grabbed a whole lot of kids on a bus. We�ve got a list of fifteen regulars, we sent them letter, said �bring some friends, bring whoever you want� and we�ve got 40 people tonight. so maybe Niall's member just missed it?   Judy   -- "Politics is the work we do to keep the world safe for our spirituality" - Judith Plaskow Rev Judy Redman Uniting Church Chaplain University of New England Armidale 2351 ph:  +61 2 6773 3739 fax: +61 2 6773 3749 web:  http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/ action for peace:  http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/links/peace.html email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Judy Redman Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 10:15 AM To: Insights List Subject: RE: Hunter Harvest was - What is christiansonline.com.au     Hey everyone - I missed Compass on Sunday - but had a member from my congregation ask whether the uniting church was involved in the hunter harvest... they said they scanned the list of churches but couldn't find any uniting churches there...    Were there any other non-pentecostal churches involved?  eg Anglican, Catholic, Baptist, Churches of Christ.     1) Is this correct or were Uniting Churches supportive of the Hunter Harvest? (I know uniting church individuals who have been involved but not sure about congregations...) 2) If Uniting Churches did not support HH was there a reason for it (ie it was high pressure, prosperity gospel or ...?    Maybe just not invited? I know events like HH are probably not my cup of tea.) -- "Politics is the work we do to keep the world safe for our spirituality" - Judith Plaskow Rev Judy Redman Uniting Church Chaplain University of New England Armidale 2351 ph:  +61 2 6773 3739 fax: +61 2 6773 3749 web:  http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/ action for peace:  http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/links/peace.html email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]