[FIRSTNAME], welcome to the third official Forge Victoria email Newsletter this year! Thank you for deciding to subscribe and follow what Forge Victoria is doing this year!
The year has flown by so fast, it is hard to believe that we are about to hold out last intensive for 2007 and that the year is almost over! But between singing Auld Lang Syne and now there is so much to pack in!
If you can make to the next intensive, a live-in weekend at Phillip Island featuring Pioneering Leadership, I encourage you to join us! Details can bef ound further down the page. In addition, we are thrilled to be able to invite you to the Forge '07 graduation dinner to be held 30tth November, details also available below.
But teh big news is the Forge Grassroots Mission Festival '08! The Dangerous Stories have become the Festival which next year explores Grassroots Mission.
We would also like to extend the invitation to you, our Forge family to share any news or artricles you would like to submit us here.
Please enjoy what we have for you in this issue, and we look forward to hearing from you or encountering you at one of the many events planned through out the year. If you have any suggestions or comments please don't hesitate to send them to us here .
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Pioneering Leadership - Final '07 Intensive
It's not too late to jooin us for our final intensive for 2007! The intensive is a little over two weeks away, and if you can make it, we encourage you to come spend a weekend with us on Phillip Island as we explore Pioneering Leadership.
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Forge Grassroots Mission Festival '08
At last we can proudly announce the official website and details for the 2008 Forge Grassroots Mission Festival! Point your browser over to
festival08.forge.org.au and have a look at some of the speakers and sponsors of the festival.
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'07 Intern Graduation
We invite you all to attend the ’07 Intern Graduation evening on the 30th of November at Urban Life in Ringwood. Further details will be sent out as soon as they are finalized, but we encourage you to attend and celebrate the missional Christ-like hearts of our Interns as they graduate from the Forge internship and are sent out!
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Forge Alumni
As part of the focus for the Forge Grassroots Mission Festival we’re trying to track down and connect with past interns and graduates of Forge Australia wide! If that is you, please email alumni@forge.org.au with your details.
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Stories of Grassroots Mission
We would love to gather the stories of past interns as part of the grassroots mission stories that we want to share at the Forge Grassroots Mission Festival. Our plan is to capture on video as many stories of past interns and those in grassroots mission to not only encourage but fuel one another onwards!
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Can You Help?
As a grassroots organic organisation, we finally have to admit that we need a filing cabinet to keep Neal sane with all the paper work currently in many boxes in his small office at home. If you can help by donating or supplying a three or four drawer filing cabinet it would be very much appreciated!
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Links
We wanted to let you know about some places on the web that Forge you may be interested in, as well as some places we love to visit!
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Postcard Events
This year we have moved the Postcard events from being a centralized event to one that empowers more of the many practitioners in the field. Regions at present include, North, Mountain, Gippsland and Peninsula.
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Prayer Requests
Over the next month there are a number of things to offer praise for and seek guidance and support for from our Father. Please keep these petitions in your prayers and thoughts over the coming weeks.
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Partnering with Forge Victoria
This is your opportunity and our call for you, our family, friends and supporters of Forge to partner with Forge Victoria to help birth and nurture the mission shaped church in Australia and beyond.
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