It was quite surreal – enjoying the sunshine as we stood on the doorstep of Yarmouk – an area that the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, recently described as Syria’s “deepest circle of hell”! Admittedly, we were on the right side of the dividing line between the ISIS-controlled section of Yarmouk and the greater area controlled […]
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Hi Fighter, This is Father Dave with another far-too-infrequent update for you. I’m afraid the last three weekends have been a roller-coaster ride for me and I am somewhat exhausted: Week 1: we had our fundraiser dinner – raising more than $6,000 towards sending our boxing team to Syria. Week 2: we took another dozen
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Getting ready for Syria Read More »
Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave. It’s been too long since I’ve communicated with you. 🙁 It’s not that I’ve been having a holiday (I wish). On the contrary, I’ve been struggling with a workload that threatens to overwhelm me at times, and I’ve got two major projects on the boil at the moment, and I’m looking
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Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave back with you. Christmas is past (exhausting yet wonderful as ever) and it’s time for us to go bush! 🙂 Our bush weekend away at Binacrombi is just around the corner – January 16th to 18th – and you are invited! It will be a physical and spiritual fitness weekend where
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Hi Fighter, Father Dave here, and I’m starting this missive from sunny Binacrombi Bush Camp where we are about to ‘re-ignite’ things. No, we’re not about to start a bush fire but we have been closed for the last few weeks while we’ve been upgrading the water system and the power system, repairing the tracks
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Christmas is almost upon us! Read More »
G’day Fighter, As you might guess from the title and from the slide-show tribute above, the ‘Fighting Father Dave’ Compass episode is now online. Indeed, it’s embedded a few lines below! 🙂 This should please many of our non-Australian Fighting Fathers who couldn’t view the show when it aired on ABC TV two Sundays back,
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Hi Fighter, I’m actually going to make two appeals to you today. The first is a simple one: please watch this Sunday night’s edition of “Compass” on ABC TV (Australia). Post by Compass. Mind you, I have not been given any special preview beyond this 30-second snippet so it is possible that this screening will cost
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An appeal from Father Dave Read More »
G’day Fighter, I am writing to you today primarily to ask for your help in sharing my ‘STOP THE WAR’ video appeal with the rest of the world. I’ve also though had a couple of dramatic weeks since we last communicated and I must share some of the highlights with you too. I mentioned in
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Christians and Muslims united for peace! Read More »
Hi Fighter, Shalom! Salam! Peace! It’s what we’re all yearning for at the moment as the world’s remaining super-power plunges us all into another major war! Will this turn out to be the third world war? Will this be earth’s final war? Will the Lord return before this one is done? All these questions come to mind, and
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
Hi Fighter, My apologies for the long break between communications but I’ve spent most of the last week sick in bed! As ever, I’ve been burning the candle at both ends – running fitness camps and addressing rallies in addition to the usual routine. Even so, I think it was the emotional strain of watching
Preacher, Pugilist, Activist, Father of four
