p a s s i o n + r e a s o n

I'll start with the last: bomb(s). There was indeed some sort of blast in Bandung a couple of days ago. Some explosive device went off on Jalan Braga (quite near to where we've been staying). It made the newspapers and TV here, although it might've just been a bomb made out of firework. And we're ok.

I've been taking tons of photos here. I've shot some 900+ frames in the last week alone. Last night's 60th anniversary bash for my grandparents went really well. We hosted some 50 odd tables at the Landmark Convention Center. I gave a little speech to them, and then also took more photos. All of my (girl) cousins were all decked out with fancy dresses, hairdo's, and all, so I took tons of pics of them.

Here's some qualifiers to my last post on "unplugging". I got some emails about it, and wrote one back - but here's some interesting thoughts put forward by (correction here:) a pastor and a lay-worker that really hit the nerve I've been rubbing here - Darryl Dash, pastor of Richview Baptist Church in Toronto and here - Leighton Tebay. Do read the comments on those posts.

I'll also point to some of my earlier posts here:

• Reflections on churchianity - a Bangkok perspective
• Comments and thoughts on ecclesiology
• Chinese-Canadian-Christian priorities (*)
• Models of Church - a reprise
• Western Church

Correction: I wrote that Leighton Tebay is a pastor - he's not. He's a lay-worker, as far as I know.