2010 RRY Fry Up (AKA What Went Down-31 January 2010)

Feeling hungry (having skipped home breakfast) the youth arrived at the church today ready to head off again to Shaun’s place for the first fry-up breakfast of the new year. (For details of the last fry-up, click here)

Chris and Jess though, found out they weren’t allowed to eat anything to eat too much because they had to be back in time at the church as they were having their own family breakfast as their mom is celebrating her birthday today! (Happy birthday Mrs Fuller!)

Anyhow, when we arrived at Shaun’s farm, he was already hard at work (with his apron too!) frying some bacon. After watching Sheila, Shaun’s dog, dive headlong into the dam after a deflated rugby ball (which soon sank ;-p) Chris was put to egg duty while I was dispatched to butter toast and defrost a very hard chunk of butter in the microwave!

Whilst we enjoyed bacon, eggs and toast, we chatted about the Jews, and why they still don’t eat bacon, along with some of the many laws God gave to the Isrealites (see Leviticus 11, unclean foods and Deutoronomy 14, instructions) when they were wandering in the desert. One of the points we discussed was that God might just have made these laws for certain practical reasons for the people: like his laws not to eat certain fish kinds as they simply wouldn’t last! If you smoke normal bony fish it will last for months, but squid, shellfish and the like will give you seafood poisoning if kept. Of course the Jews probably would be suspicious or confused if God told them the real reson for not eating certain foods, so He knew if He gave these commands as laws, they would obey them without fuss. We also discussed Peter’s vision (see Acts 10) and how he was instructed to kill and eat, even “unclean” animals, according to Peter.

If you’d like to test some of your knowledge on the topic and study the section, read the above links or click the links again below to re-read the Bible verses, then find the worksheet Alex drew up with some questions to make you think a bit. (will be uploaded soon)

• Leviticus 11, unclean foods
• Deutoronomy 14, instructions
• Acts 10 , Peter’s vision

After some thought-provoking discussion, we had to end, but you’re also encouraged to download the worksheet (requires Adobe Reader 7 or higher, get Adobe Reader here) and post your comments on the issue below!

UPDATE: We’re having some technical glitches with the worksheet, so it’s been included in standard JPEG format below. Click on it to view the original file, so you’ll then be able to download it. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The Pork Worksheet

What Went Down–1 November 2009

Another back post..

Although it was quite a long time coming, we always planned to have a breakfast “fry-up,” and this was the day for it! Even better, we were told it was at Shaun’s farm! (Just to fill you in here, Shaun has a REALLY cool farm, hence the excitement…)

Jenna, Juan, Marc, myself, Alex and Shaun trooped into a cool checkered-Hyundai i10 and Bantam respectively (Marc being the proud owner of the i10) and soon arrived at “Karrighen Estate.” After unpacking all the stuff we’d brought along , including eggs, sausages, drinks, eggs (yes, plenty of eggs) bacon, tomatoes, and more scrumptious edibles, we trooped onto Shaun’s front patio overlooking his garden—uhm sorry I meant manicured field, and were soon frying away (also getting Shaun’s dog, Sheila, to “go swim!”) and otherwise cooking up quite a storm! Meal ready, we all sat down and indulged in our handiwork, as each one of us did something in the entire “cooking” thing. We discussed lots of different topics including the proposed Christmas event and SNAC services, as well as what Jenna and Marc were planning. (see “what went down, 25 October 09”)

After breakfast we took a walk around Shaun’s smallholding, checking out his cows, and of course horses and their jumps and facilities. Finally we quizzed over a small self-catering cottage planned to be finished “soon” (Shaun reckons he’s not really sure of when “soon” is!) and offering visitors a nice view over the dam. That pretty much rounded off our great morning, and sent us all home with a full stomach

Photos will be up soon!