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       Today we said goodbye to Melbourne and officially drew a close to our first week in Australia. It's hard to believe how much such a relatively short period of time can hold; we talked, laughed and prayed with so many wonderful people in that week!  This koala is 14 meters tall! From left: Paul, Sarah, Sharon, Simon However, we're looking ahead toward even more of the same. For today, that meant a train trip to Horsham. Our new friend Simon is a Churches of Christ pastor there, and he ensured that it was a day of incredible hospitality.  Sharon and Sarah with their lovely host, Joan (right) The three of us were hosted overnight by different church members. Joan, who hosted Sharon and Sarah, had all three of us over for a delicious dinner and joined over 50 others at a local church for Paul's evening seminar.  Horsham community churchgoers gather to play and critique the Table Talk games. This time, the attendees had a chan...

After yesterday's slight lull, we went full tilt today. The morning began with a trip to Kew for a celebration of Kew Baptist Church's 160th anniversary celebration. Paul shared the message, and by the end of his talk about the power of prayer he had a quarter of the church down front, pretending to be their favourite Biblical characters in a demonstration of the "crowd of witnesses." Paul illustrates the crowd of witnesses with a crowd of witnesses at Kew Baptist Church Festivities continued with a BBQ in the church hall. Because of the special occasion, church members from all three services (the youth service, the traditional service and the Vietnamese service) and members from years past all gathered together. We got caught up in conversation with people from all of these groups, and Paul was so pleased to stumble into the pastor of the Vietnamese-speaking services. We're looking forward to working together to translate the Table Talk apps into Vietn...

Some great feedback about Table Talk for Easter We thoroughly appreciate it when someone writes to tell us what is wrong with what we have created or takes the time to list the many ways that something can be enhanced. Life is too short to let our egos get in the way of listening to people who might have a valuable contribution to make. Every now and then we receive an email that is an overwhelming encouragement, what follows below is one such correspondence... Message:  Dear Team I just wanted to thank you for making your Easter Table Talk app freely accessible.   We have just used it a Good Friday Messy Church session and it started some really profound conversations. It definitely sparked our small number of teenagers - they launched straight into some amazing conversations and involved their parents too, which was great to see.   However what moved me most was how younger children could really engage with these questions in a surprisingly...