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Berridale Gets Amenities

Berridale Gets Amenities

After more than a 100 years without ‘facilities’, All Saints’ Berridale now has a new building which boasts a disabled-friendly convenience and a meeting room with a kitchenette. On Sunday, 13th of September, Bishop Carol visited to worship with the parish, officially...
Burgmann Opens a New Senior School Building

Burgmann Opens a New Senior School Building

On Monday afternoon, 21 September, Senator Zed Seselja officially opened our most recent Senior School Building. The opening had been delayed from last year for a variety of reasons and I was delighted to welcome Senator Seselja, and James Milligan MLA, to the school...

New Rector for Queanbeyan District Anglican Church

The Reverend Ian Marshall was Inducted as the new Rector of The Parish of Queanbeyan District Anglican Church on 23 September 2020. Ian has been Locum for the Parish for about the last two years. Bishops Mark and Carol and Area Dean David McLennan presided. Reverend...

World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel

13-20 September 2020 Each year the World Council of Churches (WCC) designates the second week in September as the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (WWPPI). If one were to be somewhat cynical, we could see this as just another of the days, weeks or months...

The Governor and the Priest at Lake Bathurst, 1820

I greatly enjoy reading the journals and records of the early European explorers in Australia. We must never say that they ‘discovered’ various features such as mountains, lakes and rivers. These were known to the indigenous peoples from the beginning. European...
Creative festival connecting community, faith & sustainability

Creative festival connecting community, faith & sustainability

In a spirit of community-building and healing, the faith communities of Holy Cross Anglican and St Margaret’s Uniting in Hackett in Canberra’s inner north recently hosted a festival focussed on sustainability. The ‘Sustaining Our Future’ Festival on the weekend of...
Dirrum Festival 2020: From Canberra to the World

Dirrum Festival 2020: From Canberra to the World

Canberra’s Radford College hosted a very different Dirrum Festival over Friday 14 and Saturday 15 August. This year’s Dirrum Festival theme, ‘Tipping Points’, was chosen in 2019. As the Dirrum Festival fast approached, the theme felt increasingly apt. The Dirrum team,...
Six Months Feels Like a Lifetime

Six Months Feels Like a Lifetime

On 2nd September Chaplain (Flight Lieutenant) Emma Street received a certificate from the Director General Chaplaincy – Air Force, Mark Willis, in recognition of outstanding ministry in 2020, particularly during Operation Bushfire Assist and in the early months of the...
Doing Year 12 in 2020

Doing Year 12 in 2020

Bishop Mark recently recorded a message for Year 12 school students, encouraging them with a reminder of the unchanging truth that education is far more about the people we are becoming than the facts that we remember, which is why times of challenge can sometimes be...
Deacon Profile – Judy Holdsworth

Deacon Profile – Judy Holdsworth

I am an Honorary Deacon serving The Southern Monaro Parish for the last twelve years. I have lived in the Bombala region for twenty three years now. When I arrived in Bombala, I was not sure where my ministry would take me, having been involved in Lay Ministry for...