Breakfast with Phil Pringle

This morning Jo and I have been on the go early - early that is for a Saturday. We had two invitations on the one morning. The first was to a pastor's breakfast at local restaurant where the guest of honor would be Pastor Phil Pringle from Oxford Falls in Sydney. Best of all it was all free. I have said for many years if you want to succeed in getting a group of pastors together for something - offer them a free feed. It always works. This morning was no exception. About 40 pastors crammed into a relatively new north Hobart restaurant simply called 'Fish'. As the name would suggest they seem to serve a lot of seafood, but today they excelled themselves in supplying cooked breakfasts for all the pastors.



After a hearty meal Phil spoke to us and was his usual colorful self. He had plenty to say about quite a number of subjects and I noticed that as he spoke more of the staff seemed to be moving closer to listen in. Phil spoke of some of the horrible things churches do to men. He spoke with great passion about the need to engage men in what we do. He called us to a deeper level of prayer saying that without much prayer ministry will soon be pretty dull and dry and be devoid of power.



After our breakfast Jo and I headed straight off to the Jam Packed Cafe down on the waterfront. This was another free feed compliments of our churches Eating With Friends ministry team. Lib Cooper who leads this ministry invited her whole team along for a special treat. Maybe my constant urging of people to take time to appreciate and honor one another is getting through. I was delighted to be there and share in a wonderful morning and watch a ministry team just enjoy being together. I reckon if we did this sort of thing more often in our churches - maybe we would keep our volunteers longer.



After much deliberation I settled on a selection of Pecan Pie and coffee