Part of our Sunday Eucharist at Holy Cross Hackett is a quick reflection called the ‘Eco Minute’. The minute is a time when we as a community pause to reflect explicitly on creation and our place in it. Recently as I was preparing the minute, images from the James...
Back in the late 1930s the Indonesians in Bali no longer wanted the Christians in the city area of Denpasar. To solve the problem, the ruling Dutch government offered the Christians free land in the jungles of West Bali. This suggestion was accepted and the first...
Picture above: Back: Bishop Mark Short, Prakash Mehta (President of the Hindu Council), Murray Norman (CEO, Better Balanced Futures), Andrew Guile (ADS Director Risk). Front: Professor Suzanne Rutland (Sydney University), Professor Zehavit Gross (Bar-llan University...
The parish of St Peter’s Weston has become the parish of St Peter’s Weston Molonglo. The new name was accompanied by an adjustment in the parish boundaries, with the addition of the Molonglo Valley suburbs of Coombs, Wright and Denman Prospect. The changes formalise a...
More than 50 primary-aged children heard about Jesus at an action-packed school holiday club at St Peter’s Weston in July. The ‘Out of this World’-themed holiday club was a joint initiative of St Peter’s and Scripture Union ACT and ran across two full days, featuring...
For 22 years our small dedicated team provided weekly free food at a tiny Community Centre in Canberra’s inner north public housing, together with wide-ranging support assisting the marginalised and those on low incomes. For my part, as a vocational deacon, this...
