"REFRAME" (updated August 2007)

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Or even better, you can automatically sign yourself on, by going to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reframe/

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REFRAME doesn’t meet up much these days. It has settled into a spasmodic online community, which surges to life when a need arises, and goes back to comfortable silence when not.

There’s a real maturity in those discussions now, so that difficult issues are treated respectfully, and with an awareness that very often there are valid arguments on both sides, or more correctly among people with different emphases.

But just occasionally we do come out of the woodwork for face-to-face discussions. But you have to be on the online discussion to find out about those.

Still, for posterity, here is a list of the meetings we did have when we met more regularly.

Reframe Day - June 19, 2004.

"Is Reframe really Austin Powers?"
Are we just repeating the 60's 70's?

Rev George Davies
Community Youth Consultant, Perth Inner City Youth Service

George Davies was there back then, so let's see what's the same, what's different, & what we can learn from those days...

At Outback Center, Subiaco.
10-3pm.
$10 per head, includes cuppas & lunch.
(If cost is prohibitive for you, let me know.)

(Please rsvp me as soon as you can so we can prepare lunch.)
gwestlake@optusnet.com.au

PREVIOUSLY:

Nov 1, 2003
Paddington Alehouse, Scarborough Bch Rd, Mt Hawthorn
Alan Hirsch, FORGE founding director, is over here (as part of getting Forge happening here in WA.) So if you'd like a taste of Forge, this will be the day for you to get it straight from the horse's mouth.
(Reframers, I don't know of any better way to cover the basic issues (of mission, church, innovation, pioneering, the stuff we're on about at Reframe...) than the Forge Internship. Until now it has always been in Victoria, but as of 2004, you can do it here in WA.)
In the am, Al & Deb will tell their story of the South Melbourne Restoration Community, Forge, Purple Heart, with key principles arising...
And in the arvo there'll be more work on helping us re-imagining church/kingdom of God.
We'll also use this day to see how everyone's year has been, and update you on the developments for Forge.

August 20, 2003 (Wednesday evening) FORGE information evening:

7.30pm, Warehouse Cafe, 221 Onslow rd, Shenton Park

rachel.harris@eddept.wa.edu.au

You've heard it mentioned before, and maybe heard that we're bringing Forge to WA. But what exactly is it, and what's the plan? Well, be here for the scoop. Click on here for a Word doc blurb about this date..

August 9, 2003
It's a TEAR date, with Lyndon Prince (our own Michael Prince's wife)
& Steve Bradbury (TEAR's National Director, and chair of the Micah Network). The topic is "Faith or Fear: resourcing the church to respond in hope with their community to global anxiety." It's about how we can offer hope, compassion and empowerment of the community, in current times.
Details: 10am-330pm Sat 9th August North Beach Baptist Church
Groat St, North Beach. Lunch & refreshments provided. Cost: $25, or $20 for the unwaged, (reframers see me for further discount if you need it.)
email stevemk@bigpond.com

June 7, 2003

The painting day to chinwag and bless the Westlake's at the same time. Food - supplied, Bring - rollers and paint brushes.

[Thanks everyone who came. I had to blink back a few tears from time to time. Words fail. But thank-you. Because of you, we made it into the house a week BEFORE the new baby arrived. :-))) g.]

April 5 2003:
10am-3pm. Warehouse cafe, 221 Onslow Rd, Shenton Park
$10 includes lunch & morning tea. (subsides available)
3 case studies of different stages of development:
1020-1120 preparing:- (Bruce Stuart (fairtofumbling) heading to Prague... long, great story); 1145-1245 beginning:- (a panel of the Lesmurdie to Brighton crew, those left behind and those off to Brighton); and 145-245 established:- (Don Dowling behind the Warehouse cafe itself. Hear the cafe story.)

Feb 8 2003: Tim Meyers from Pioneers, who foster radical missional cross-cultural church/plant/ thingys.

He'll tell his story & the Pioneers story. Then Q&A. etc.
ii... Lunch: Good time to catch up with other Reframers
iii... Reflect & Relate: Time for support & celebration. Time to relate
Tim's stuff to our own situations, and hopefully hear how other Reframers
might be doing that too. Library, St Catherines college, UWA, 1030 am - 330 pm

Nov 9th 2002: A SOCIAL LUNCH
- to catch up with each other & the storries; to connect before the Christmas rush.
- minimal formalityy (maybe just a timing thing to keep people moving around to other people.)
1230 pm till, say 3-ish. At the... >FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE

September 7, 2002: Dave Andrews (from the Waiters Union in Qld, wrote Christianarchy among many other published bits & pieces.)
10am - 4pm Dalkeith Rd Church of Christ, 70 Dalkeith Rd.

August 9-11, 2002: TEAR Conference. Especially the community development stream. Lots of workshops to choose from to give your community of faith some sharper teeth. http://www.tear.org.au/conference/wa_page2.htm

June 15,2002: Story-telling. Hear what the other Reframers are up to lately. Rosy O'Grady's Pub, Northbridge.

March 2, 2002: Andrew Jones, here - in Perth! Major score. See vid of diff churches, hear how alt faith communities happen around the globe. Chat with Andrew about it all. Bruce's house's ballroom!

Oct 20, 2001: Meet & coaching.

Sep 8, 2001: Soren Oestergaard - pomo analyst & activist from Denmark. Elephant & Wheelbarrow pub.

Aug 11, 2001: Meet & coaching - The Outback Centre

2. Description of "REFRAME"...

REFRAME is a safe place to REFRAME the way we look at church, Christianity, the whole Kingdom of God.

REFRAMERS are people here in Perth, Western Australia, who try to look at living their Christian life from fresh perspectives. Who try to recognise God in unexpected places. Who hope and struggle for more incarnational ways to live, share & convey their faith. Who are trying to love God with their whole life, with full integrity.

If that's your journey, you know how easy it is to be misunderstood, and how lonely it can be sometimes.

Well, you're welcome to share roads & loads with us.

It's a safe place to unpack & repack; to deconstruct & reconstruct.

We're here to stimulate & support each other.

There's emphases on:-
- fresh input ("look at it this way&quoot; ie.. reframing)

- case studies
- coaching (what are you seeing?)
- relationships (yoou might meet some kindred spirits here.)

For more info, see the footnote.

3. The WA REFRAME facilitators...

The 3 "co-facilitators" are:

- Peter Barney (20-something) is currently on staff at Scripture Union. A true postmodern (he'd never accept that label) and a passion for reaching people in our inner cities.

- Michael Prince (40-something) IS Aasha Consulting. He works with businesses and government organisations in training/ mentoring/ action-learning processes. A real asset in coaching, but even more, he and his wife Lyndon (whom some of you might recognise as the state TEAR rep.) were once missionaries in Nepal.

- Geoff Westlake (30-something), works for OAC Ministries, an older outreach organization which is currently experimenting in ways to communicate in the emerging cultures. As a Baptist Rev he has credibility among the mainstream churches, but works more outside of it, which has taken him around the world seeing & trying different approaches.

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