Melbourne Convention 2019

[hatcheckgirl]

Yes! Those 7 songs back to back was a real highlight! 👍👍😻💕

[Omoyeme]

1 hour ago, jscotchie said:

We had songs 20, 85, 58, 84, 134, [...]

Oh?! sooo you're going to make me break out my songbook and start flipping to ALL THESE PAGES to find out what song title goes to which number?

 

....my wrist needs the exercise!

 

 

(singing to myself...)

Love, unfailing love...that's what we neeeeed to live  (flip...)

And the love here todaaay, in our hearts may it staaaaaaaaaa...ayyyy. (flip,...)

Unfailing love, oooo...ooooooo

 

flip,...flip,...flip

 

Edited November 25, 2019 by Omoyeme

[New World Explorer]

3 hours ago, Bro Richard said:

How was the assignment? 

Thank you for asking, humbling in a big sense ...who am I to deserve this? (I will pm you with some details, when I find few minutes free -I was impressed with something)

[MM9106]

Who was the GB helper assigned to this convention?

[New World Explorer]

1 minute ago, MM9106 said:

Who was the GB helper assigned to this convention?

Br. Izak Marais

 

also we had David DeGuzman HQ Secretary and assistant (extremely funny/humble brother - love him) 

[Thomas Walker]

Asking for friends, does anyone have the Melbourne convention recorded on video? We have the audio, but video is becoming more and more important.

[New World Explorer]

52 minutes ago, Thomas Walker said:

Asking for friends, does anyone have the Melbourne convention recorded on video? We have the audio, but video is becoming more and more important.

I will ask around ....

[Luigi62]

18 hours ago, Thomas Walker said:

Asking for friends, does anyone have the Melbourne convention recorded on video? We have the audio, but video is becoming more and more important.

should be announced at the meeting this week

[New World Explorer]

Look...we even had a turtle

[New World Explorer]

Cute gifts

[Luigi62]

I got a few different tea bags from different brothers and sisters from around the world, haven’t tried them yet.

[Stee]

[Luigi62]

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/australia/Melbourne-Australia-2019-Love-Never-Fails-International-Convention/

[Luigi62]

Love this photo because you can tell who live in Melbourne.

 

If you can't tell its the brother and sisters with a coffee mug.

[New World Explorer]

31 minutes ago, Luigi62 said:

Love this photo because you can tell who live in Melbourne.

 

If you can't tell its the brother and sisters with a coffee mug.

Yes, spot on ...I was on Metropolitan Witnessing today, starting 7am ...got coffee first though ...LOL 

[Tortuga]

7 hours ago, Luigi62 said:

 

If you can't tell its the brother and sisters with a coffee mug.

There must be a Starbucks close by. A local brother calls it FiveBucks...

[More4me2do]

Melbourne is the coffee capitol of Australia, Starbucks has a lot of competition there. At the 2014 international convention in Melbourne I was surprised to see vendors in their trailers on the convention grounds having Gaggia machines and drawing perfect Lattes.

[New World Explorer]

6 hours ago, Bro Richard said:

There must be a Starbucks close by. A local brother calls it FiveBucks...

I am really sorry Richard, but Starbucks can not compete with quality of coffee sold by our smaller coffee shops.

We have a lot smaller good quality establishments providing us with “fuel” ....sorry meant coffee. 

This can only be understood by experiencing Melbourne by itself. 

The coffee culture of Melbourne is very strong. 

 

Why we drink a lot of coffee? 

 I think the word is ..that discovery was made about special properties of coffee, that acts like a glue, and keeps us in position of upside down location ....LOL   .   

[Luigi62]

8 hours ago, Bro Richard said:

There must be a Starbucks close by. A local brother calls it FiveBucks...

Well there is a Starbucks close Richard, just it’s at the end of the bridge.

 

1 hour ago, New World Explorer said:

I am really sorry Richard, but Starbucks can not compete with quality of coffee sold by our smaller coffee shops.

We have a lot smaller good quality establishments providing us with “fuel” ....sorry meant coffee. 

This can only be understood by experiencing Melbourne by itself. 

The coffee culture of Melbourne is very strong. 

Greg is right we melbournians prefer independent cafes.

[Luigi62]

Here is Starbucks to marvel stadium.

[MM9106]

Is it called Marvel Stadium because of the Marvel movies and the Disney company? Just curious 

[beejay]

1 hour ago, MM9106 said:

Is it called Marvel Stadium because of the Marvel movies and the Disney company? Just curious 

In September 2018, the stadium was renamed to "Marvel Stadium", after the stadium operators negotiated a deal with The Walt Disney Company (the parent company of Marvel Entertainment) to change the naming rights and install a Marvel retail store at the venue.

[Tortuga]

Marvelous....

[MM9106]

I thought so haha. If I was at the convention, I might’ve tried to see if the store was open or catch a glimpse of it lol. I’m a nerd haha. 

[New World Explorer]

43 minutes ago, Bro Richard said:

Marvelous....

We only had super-heroes as speakers last weekend....