Somesh’s Journey to Christ
I was brought up without God. As a child, I had no religious learning from my parents. For most of my life I was an atheist. Everywhere I looked, whether in the culture, in media, in society, I saw atheism. I learnt that the concept of God was a strange ideology...
Visiting Strangers with Gifts
How do you react to an unexpected stranger knocking at your front door? This year, members of St George’s Church in Pearce embarked on a community visiting project, knocking on doors of strangers with a gift in hand. With the impetus of a Pelican Foundation Grant, we...
Warming the Lives of Seafarers
St Simon’s, Kaleen, has been supporting an interesting outreach program to seafarers run by The Mission to Seafarers at Port Hedland, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The program seeks to provide beanies to sailors on large iron ore carriers who...
A Final Christmas Blessing
For more years than anyone can remember Trish and Warrington Cameron have been blessing the Diocesan office staff with morning or afternoon tea, out of gratitude for the work undertaken behind the scenes throughout the year. The number of people participating has...
Good People Should be Just People
Over 80 people attended a St Alban’s Woden parish dinner on Friday 20th October 2018 at Mt Stromlo where Archdeacon Rod Bower from Newcastle shared some of experiences of his life journey, his call to ministry, and to live the gospel of God’s love and justice. Some of...How to Organise a Bunfight in a Bakery – and Other Ministry Skills
In my four and a half years in Canberra I’ve been stunned by the high turnover of ministers in parishes and by frustrations experienced by parishes to find someone suitable. It would be easy to cast blame on either group for these trends. But that is a mistake: at the...
New Rector for Manuka
After a decade as Parish Priest at Molong, near Orange in the Central West of NSW, Ben Edwards will be inducted as Rector of St Paul’s, Manuka, on 15 December. Ben is married to Kate and they have two small children, Timmy (8) and Claire (5). Ben was ordained in All...