Tony & Christine Newsletters

Christmas 2024

Kona to Manila.
Manila to Cebu & Surigao.
We got to help a number of people and bases with their Technology and Website needs.

From a conference in Manila to one in Tauranga, I think we have our quota.

Come in and see what else has been happening for us.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

December 2024

Thank you for such a good time in the Philippines over September and October.

From YWAM Together in Manila at the beginning of September, we then traveled down to Cebu and Surigao and then back to Manila at the end of October.

We got to work with many of you to see what you are doing, but more importantly, to see why you do what you do, to hear your vision, and see where you think Jesus is taking you.

Training and Manila

So, we moved into a yurt. Our neighbors are now roosters, turkeys, and coquí frogs.Living in Kona is interesting. We’re not on holiday, and our economy is very much supported by holidaymakers, so I can’t begrudge them having fun while they are here. Where we were...

2023 in review

2023. Christmas in NZ was a joy to have time with family. End of an era. Living Small. The Philippines. Campus Life. Technology. Christine.Christmas 2023 at Jenny & Joe's Home in Wellington.Jonathan had also come to New Zealand from Hawaii for three weeks at the...

August 2023

August 2023 We are back in Kona after five weeks in the Philippines. From Surigao where Chris and I met, to Cebu where we had our Honeymoon and Manila where it all began. We sidestepped a Typhoon but missed out on getting to Baguio. We met with many old friends and...

Talking to Father

Talking with Father  For me, prayer is an enigma. I have known times when God has definitely answered prayers. Like the time I flew out of New Zealand to Manila with the Airport in Manila closed due to a coup. I have also known times when God did not answer...

We have several Newsletters as our interests span a wide range of topics.

Have a look below, and please subscribe to one that may be of interest to you.

Most of all please subscript to this one.

Information Wisdom

Information is like a pile of lumber and building materials stacked on the ground.

Knowledge is turning all of that into a house.

Understanding is going and living in that house.

And wisdom is procreating a family in that house.

AI & Sustainable Abundance

What might be an unintended consequence of sustainable abundance?

Will the lack of stress to provide for oneself, the lack of suffering as you keep body and soul together, create a world of weakness where everything and everyone collapses in on itself?

In their own eyes

Judges 21:25 and Judges 17:6. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

It must be kind of important if God mentions it twice.

When we follow this course, of doing what is right in our own eyes, we are like a boat with no sails, rudder, or keel, easily blown by any wind on the waters.

Maximize Harvesters.

How can we maximize harvesters?
How can we maximize the training of harvesters?
And how can we maximize the disciplining of those harvested into harvesters?
You have really good programs running at your base.
You work hard in them.
How can we increase your harvesting without increasing your work, your hours, or your effort?
People are the body. Our programs are our food. We need to eat programs into oblivion, such that we cook a new program. From that program that gets consumed will rise the next generation, fed and ready to cook a new program.

Artificial Intelligence does not exist.

Large Language Models that can create answers to many facetted questions do exist.

They operate from a probability and informational matrix to provide answers to questions.

What I mean by this….

God’s Team

God is not on our side.
But we can be on God’s side.

Who’s team are you on?
Your own team or God’s?

Often, we start on our team, we learn that that is not where we are meant to be, we switch to God’s team, and then, unfortunately, we convert God’s team into our team and wonder where God has gone.

How do we move from being on our team to God’s team?
How do we keep ourselves on God’s team?
What are the telltale signs that I might be trying to convert God’s team into my team?
And if I find myself having converted God’s team to my team and God seems vacant, how can I get back onto God’s team?

Calling all Webmasters

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Discipleship

Discipleship

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Nature Nurture

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Chat GPT

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Natural Farm

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Talking to Father

Talking to Father

Talking with Father  For me, prayer is an enigma. I have known times when God has definitely answered prayers. Like the time I flew out of New Zealand to Manila with the Airport in Manila closed due to a coup. I have also known times when God did not answer...

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What is WordPress

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What is WordPress?WordPress first came on the scene in 2003 WordPress is a Content Management System designed to do all the heavy lifting for you so you do not need to code. First used for bloggers, now it has a suite of tools to build websites for any kind of...

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surigao.ywamphilippines.org

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Scroll and have a look at YWAM Surigao below or go directly to https://surigao.ywamphilippines.org.  YWAM Surigao has been in operation since 1986. Since then YWAM Surigao has been receiving teams from all over the world. Teams come and can be involved in a range...

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febc.nz

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febc.nzScroll and have a look at Far East Broadcasting Corporation below or go directly to https://febc.nz.  Since 2001 Soon after moving to the Wairarapa, I got contact by FEBC to help with a few netowrk issues. So began over 22 years of working with FEBC, both...

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Our God is too small

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Our God is too small  I see many people “losing their faith” because the god of their childhood is eclipsed but their growing knowledge and understanding and their faith crumbles like a sandcastle before the incoming tide. There is of course a big problem if your...

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Why Baby Quilts

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Baby Quilts    Why Baby Quilts? During my time here working at the University of the Nations  I kept noticing all the young married couples here from all different countries serving the Lord. When they were expecting a new baby they had no close family near by to...

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Good Fermentation

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Kombucha  This makes one gallon of Kombucha. Ingredients 9 black tea bags, (must be caffeinated) 1 cup white sugar, 1 scoby, 1 or more cups of starter kombucha (plain, not flavored). Good filtered water, not tap water as it has chlorine in it and can kill the...

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