Rob's Rave and Silvina's Stories Living life at the end of the world
Archive for May, 2003
A Brief Background
In 1998 when I was working in Cairns Australia, God called me to go to New Zealand. About eight years before that I had seen a short video on a place called Lifeway College over there. This was now the same place that I believed God was calling me to move to. At the end [...]
Transiting Australia – First Stop
First Stop – Australia… When I left New Zealand I had no idea of the trauma it would cause me. I guess it is only natural that the more you love the more it hurts to let go. I learnt to love a lot during my time there, so it follows that I also hurt [...]
The Call – Late 2002
Sometime later in 2002 a feeling started to grow inside of me that told me I was leaving soon and should get ready. But leaving to where? Get ready how? I didn’t really know. My decision at that time was to throw away and sell any junk that I was hording and I thought this [...]
The Call – Early 2002
After wanting to learn a language for a long time I decided to take a language course at University. Having considered German and Japanese first I finally rested on a course that included Spanish, French and German in a combined degree. I thought that by taking this course I could concentrate on the languages I [...]
The Call – 2001
Sometime late in the year I got a feeling that God was going to move me on. Sort of a gut feeling that you know something is going to happen but there is no sense of timing or detail to it. So I didn’t know where or when and figured that it would be a [...]
I am leaving…
To my wonderful friends, good mates, and whanau. Greetings. I have some news to tell you all… it is now time to leave New Zealand. That’s right. I am leaving Lifeway, FTN, and New Zealand. All at once really. And not too far away. I will be back in Australia (from whence I came originally) [...]
The Call – Other Things
Other things that have helped me to know it is the right time to leave at this time: Brenda’s Wisdom A wise old friend of mine, Brenda, commented to me recently that my decision to go to South America and preparations for it were the most consistent I have ever been.
The Call – Meeting With Trev
Now that I knew I was leaving and even had an idea of time, I needed to discuss this with Trevor Yaxley – my boss and the director of Lifeway Ministries. The commitments I had made to the ministry and to Trevor made it necessary to submit these ideas of leaving and timing to him [...]
The Call – 2003
I went to Australia for Christmas and arrived back in New Zealand just in time to celebrate my birthday. To my surprise I was given a ticket to the New Zealand Parachute Music Festival for a present. This is a full weekend of Christian music concerts and speakers which is the largest event of its [...]
The Call – South America
Unknown at this time but a strong possibility is that I will be leaving Australia for South America in October. All I can say about this is that it is a strong impression that I have felt – kind of like the one I felt about March this year (which, by the way was the [...]
The Call – Intro
Well, now you have a brief history of my time in NZ. You are aware I’m going, but do you know the story of how I got to this point? What follows now is a series of 7 parts (not all at once) about how God called me to Argentina and how I know it [...]
History of NZ – TNaT
At the beginning of 2000 I formed my own business – TNaT (Thiesfield Networking and Troubleshooting). I had just got a job contracting to the Wellsford Medical Centre and needed a company to keep my finances separate. TNaT did this very nicely. It also allowed me to provide computer assistance to local companies around the [...]
Moving On…
To all my friends, I trust this finds you in good health. As you all know, I am leaving New Zealand in 2wks to go to South America, with a stop in Australia on the way. It would be great to keep in touch and let you know how things are going with the journey. [...]
History of NZ – 2000
After the dawn of the new millenium, and nothing the doomsayers claimed actually happened, life returned to normal. It was during 2000 that our Evangelism team thought up a new course for youth leaders. After much deliberation on names, we all settled on “R18″. Something that points at youth and makes a visual impact. My [...]
History of NZ – 1999
In 1999 I arrived in New Zealand on the 21st of January 1999 believing that God had directed me to join Lifeway, based in Snells Beach. The details of this are a story in themselves so I won’t go into that here. When I arrived my first six months were enjoyed as a student on [...]
History of NZ – 2003
Now, as it approaches the end of May, I am near the end of my time in this place. We are at the end of all of the changes from last year. When I leave, the station will be in a place where there is no technical reason for it to not excel, and the [...]
History of NZ – 2002
Near the beginning of 2002 I was moved to FTN. This is our regional television station, now known as Family TV. It seems that the transformation I brought about to the computers throughout the college was noticed, and now it was hoped that I would bring a similar change to the desperate state of computers [...]
History of NZ – 2001
Once the new R18 course started this year things were in full swing. I found that I was starting to do a lot more computer work. Supporting people with computer problems was the main area, but there was also some competition between the technical guy, Matt, in FTN and me. This resulted in a competition [...]