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Stable on the Strand is Townsville’s yearly event held down at the local beach. This year was a huge hit with estimates of close to 40,000 coming to the event. Each year a play is put on that represents the true Christmas story. This year ‘The Promise’ took it one step further. Not only did they outline the life of Jesus, they pretty much summed up the bible in about 20 minutes. You can watch it for youself below and see what amazing job they did.

Here’s a few videos put together by our friend Joanna to give you and idea of what happened on the Voice in the Dark Tour that Sara was a part of.

Tour Summary:

The Funny Stuff:

These are the videos that Stephen, Joanna and myself worked on for the Voice in the Dark Tour that Sara went on. The tour was mainly geared toward school kids showing them that there are injustices happening in the world and that they could do something about it. These videos were shown during the concert.

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Check out the new Reef to Outback iNews made by Josiah Ritner who is on our communications team.

Ken Mulligan, our director here at Reef to Outback, was recently awarded ‘Citizen of the Year’ award. The city recognized him and his work over the past 15 years in Townsville. It was really amazing to see the mayor of Townsville, Tony Mooney, publicly recognize us as an organization. I’m not sure if he is a Christian, but he has been very supportive of what we do here.

Here’s a short video of the ceremony:

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Stable on the Strand just finished about three weeks ago. I put together a short video to give you an idea of how it looked this year. Stable on the Strand is a week long event during Christmas that’s held at our local beach. Almost every church in Townsville gets involved to tell the public the true meaning of Christmas. This year they recreated the town of Bethlehem. There was also live music by James Morrisson, a very famous Australian jazz musician.

Every year we meet people at Stable that had no idea what Christmas is really about. After they walk through Bethlehem and see baby Jesus they are so amazed that they’d never heard about this before. It’s an amazing event to share our faith at and just let the city know that the local church really does love them. Check out the video below:

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My friend Stephen came over the other day to roast some coffee. He started buying green coffee beans over the internet and has been roasting them in two popcorn machines. Check out the video I made (sorry about the poor audio quality. I didn’t realize how loud the popcorn machines were):

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Here’s another update from the road. I put this together at 3am while we were driving from Denver to LA. Enjoy!