We’ve realised over the years that we’ve been running the UK trip that sources of funding for trips like this are biased towards ministers and church employees – in fact, we haven’t been able to find any grants that lay people who aren’t employed by the church are able to apply for… While we don’t have a long term solution to that quite yet, we have been able to locate a source of money that we can use to help a couple of people a little this year… If you’re a lay person from Victoria and Tasmania, and you’re interested in coming on the UK trip, but money is a problem, then we hope that you’ll get in touch with us. We have up to three grants of up to $2000. Email me and I’ll let you know what we need to know.

The inevitable weather comment… it was still 40 degrees Celsius at 9pm last night when I got home after the commute from hell. I was rescued by a friend when i was 1 1/2 hours into a journey that normally takes 15 minutes total, with the promise of it taking at least another 1 1/2 hours to get home by train / bus / walk … The train tracks on my line had buckled in the heat – Melbourne is literally melting. It’s predicted to reach 43 today, 3 more days of this to go… and yet again i’m so very glad I don’t live in Adelaide where it’s going to be hot for much, much longer than that…