Today was day 2 of Voices for Justice. for me the day began with a taxi ride into the city where I chatted away with the driver, he asked why I was in Canberra and I told him all about who I worked for and why I was here. He was an Indian man and only been in Australia for less then 12 months, I asked him his perspective on foreign aid, and helping the poor in this way, his response took me by surprise. He said not to worry about giving aid an concentrate the governments money on putting extra lanes on the main roads around Canberra.

I don’t have a nice segway for that story to this next bit. As you can now tell.

The rest of the day was filled with a few meetings, corridor conversations, A poor attempt at leading a quick workshop on climate change for the young ones and a solar light lit service on the lawns of parliament house.

The service on the lawns was a chance to get together and pray for the upcoming days of meeting with decision makers, repent for personal blunders that have contributed to the abuse, hardships, and disrespect of the poor.

I have to say that it was freezing cold!!!

On a deeper level it was also a great time to put aside the last 2 days of data and policy and a chance to stand alongside one another and pause before we hit the corridors of power.We do live in a pretty amazing country where crazy Christians can turn up to a place of power and just have intimate chats with politicians and advisers about issues we are passionate about.

Now it’s bed time. I have to be up at 5:30am,