Category Archives: Thoughts

Surfing Sun

Tips on running a business

Surfing Sun

Surfing Sun

  1. Pray – personally I find when I get God involved life gets into more perspective.
  2. Family and friends are your most important asset. Don’t miss out on them just to get that job done.
  3. Be yourself – I am an easy going relaxed and chill sort of guy. A business adviser said to me to get a suit. A suit – it’s just not me. I find the best technique of selling yourself is to be yourself.
  4. Develop relationships. Always keep in contact with the client even when the job is done.
  5. Enjoy what you’re doing – if you don’t do something different. Even if it means a radical change in your lifestyle.
  6. Never be afraid to ask for help. Don’t just ask for help when you’re in trouble – ask for help when all is going well. It will enable you to be better prepared for the future.
  7. Always be ready to offer help. Even if it costs you in time and money.
  8. Never take it out on somebody or something else – always be ready to take responsibility for your own actions.
  9. Don’t squash snails – ok what I mean is appreciate the small things in life. And don’t squash snails.

Rich
Romans 12 v 1

Radical

Littlebigfoot Retreat Centre

Radical

Radical

Littlebigfoot. Does this conjure up pictures of native American Indians sitting outside a wigwam? I hope so because that is the sort of picture we want to achieve. We want to build a place of retreat in amongst the trees and using log style cabins. A place of quiet – of rest, where you can find God and in finding the peace and quiet most of us need.

Young people are finding life boring. So most of us want to provide even more entertainment. We want to provide a place that will allow young people to get away from it all, away from noise and conflicts and retreat to a place where they can find God.

We live in Cornwall and reckon it is one of the most peaceful places around and it lends itself to this type of retreat.

Littlebigfoot, a website built for fun, a bit of seriousness and a large slice of pizza.

If this site was pizza, I like to think of it as deep pan, cheese filled crust, with a load of meat, vegetables and garlic bread, rounded off with a nice glass of Chardonnay. Chocolate pudding to follow.

Enjoy consuming.

Littlebigfoot is a place of retreat where you can meet with God, in Cornish countryside, in a family setting. Our aim is to build a retreat centre providing an environment for rest and refreshment, where people are free to enjoy the setting and local area for themselves.

We hope to provide this rest and refreshment on a number of levels:
Emotional – To help people come to terms with emotions and feelings by satisfying the need for recognition and acceptance.
Spiritual – To help people establish a sense of values with which to live by.
Intellectual – To help people to be challenged to think and to have an opportunity to sit and read, especially the Bible.
Physical – To help people have a place to vent energy.
Humour – To help people laugh!

snail

Project Core

The project core is detached youth work although some outreach work will take place.

Contact with young people is made wherever they are to be found and where they choose to meet. As such, the project is free from the constraints of centre-based work. We will offer a service without a structured, clearly visible setting. There are no clubs with opening and closing hours, age limits, admission procedures or membership subscriptions.

DYW as with all youth work, utilises the principles and practice of informal education to engage young people in a constructive dialogue, within a broad agenda of personal and social development. The work is underpinned by mutual trust and respect and delivered according to the needs of young people. The basis of the relationship between the worker and the young person is mutual acceptance and parity. Traditional notions of adult power and authority play no part.

The Park

Encouraging Quotes

“Delight yourself also in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37 v 4

“Is this not the fast I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh.” Isaiah 58 v 6-7

“The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones…” Isaiah 58 v 11.

Crashing Sea

Jesus the Man

Jesus the man. It is an inescapable fact that he lived. What you might question is what was he about when he lived.

But isn’t that the big question for us all. What is life about?

Well when I read the Bible, it seems that Jesus is the only one that had clarity in regard to what he was about. How could he have completed his mission without that clarity.

So meet the Jesus of the Bible. Have an encounter with him and see what he says about you.

Is the Bible true or not?

Christian hoteliers appeal against ban on gay couple

This story is about a Christian couple who decide they only want to allow married couples to stay in their hotel. Now, I don’t want to discuss the merits of whether they should or shouldn’t, no I want to ask the courts about hypocrisy? When people enter a court to make a statement, they are asked to place their hand on a Bible and to swear to tell the truth, etc….

So why is it that the book the courts consider so important they ask people to swear by have no relevance when talking about the contents of the book?

Apple v Microsoft

Three Microsoft engineers and three Apple employees are traveling by train to a computer conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple employees buy only a single ticket.

“How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks a Microsoft engineer.

“Watch and you’ll see,” answers the Apple employee.

They all board the train. The Microsoft engineers take their respective seats, but all three Apple employees cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.”

The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes the ticket and moves on.

The Microsoft engineers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft engineers decide to do the same on the return trip and save some money.

When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple employees don’t buy any ticket, at all.

“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one perplexed Microsoft engineer.

“Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Apple employee.

When they board the train the three Microsoft engineers cram into a restroom and the three Apple employees cram into another one nearby. The train departs.

Shortly afterward, one of the Apple employees leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Microsoft engineers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please…”

Chris Pollard’s Story

Hi there!

My name’s James and I’m a fisherman by trade. I want to tell you a bit about Jesus because I’ve been going around with him these last three years and recently there’s been loads of rumours flying about so I want to put the record straight. Jesus has become quite famous lately, but that’s jumping the gun. Let’s start at the beginning.

I first got to know Jesus when he borrowed our boat (I’ve got a brother John, who’s my partner in our fishing business), three years back so he could preach to people on the lake shore. He was a really powerful speaker – the people hung on his every word. Then, afterwards, he got us to go out on the lake and let down our nets. We told him it was a waste of time ‘cos we’d fished all night and caught nothing. Still we did what he said and blow me if we didn’t catch so many fish that the boat nearly sank under the weight! Anyway, from that moment I knew he was someone special and that what he said was worth listening to, so I accepted his invitation to follow him and become one of his disciples. We had some great adventures together, which I haven’t got time to go into now, but even though everything he said made sense we were always getting into bother with the priests and teachers of the law. I expect you know the outcome – they had him crucified. Can you imagine how we felt? When all’s said and done, he hadn’t actually done anything wrong.

The most amazing thing of all was that, before that happened, Jesus had told us he would be killed but that he would come back to life again three days later. At times we forgot this promise but it came true – after three days he rose again! He’s been travelling around and teaching – just like the old days. I can hardly believe it! The sad thing is, though, that he’s saying he must leave again. He’s asked us to go with him to the Mount of Olives tomorrow and I’ve got this strange feeling that it might be the last time we see him. If only he would stay…