From a few conversations I have had recently I think we need be careful how we communicate who we are to people. Otherwise once tarnished always tarnished!

As we are a Manly project, not a church project, let's start with something like this "This is a Manly Community project involving community leaders and residents across the Manly region, including Council, businesses and by the way at least ten churches are uniting behind it as well."

Sound good? Gives us a different feel doesn't it?!

Yesterday we had our first steering committee meeting. On this we have Barbara Aird (Manly Councilor), Mike Frost (Pastor & Author), Doug Sewell (Businessman), Ian Freestone (Pastor) & Jim Collins (Assistant Pastor).

It went really well and a lot of great decisions were made to keep our focus on Manly partnering with one community, Manado. We are now working at getting mayoral approval of our grander plans; we saw the Mayor already a few months ago, but now we are looking for his and the concil's solid backing.

If this is achieved this will be a huge help as we start looking for venues and support from the local community. It give us the credibility for other members of the community to get on board. It is an exciting and important step as we need to be seen as a Manly community project NOT a Manly churches project.
 

Hi Action Team

Welcome to the AAP Blog. I hope that this will be of help to keep us all up to date with what is happening in the project. We are such a diverse and virtual team and so much exciting stuff is happening that it will be great for everyone to be able to access the latest news at any time by simply looking at this blog, rather than picking up the phone to lots of people.

Initially I will post general news about AAP and then we may open it up so that coordinators of other streams, such as schools, hospitality events etc can post things too, to keep their teams updated.

I would love to know your thoughts.

Blessings
Jim