St John’s Young Hosts a Men’s Breakfast with Sir Peter Cosgrove
Sir Peter Cosgrove was the guest speaker at the Men’s Breakfast hosted by St John’s Anglican Church, Young, on Saturday 29 January in the church hall. This visit was extremely popular and over-subscribed. General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC(Mil) CVO MC...
Tips for Parish Strategic Planning
In the first part of this two-part series on parish strategic planning we saw that strategic planning was part of the core business of parish councils. Parish councils in conjunction with their rector/chaplain are called by the Governance of the Diocese Ordinance 2000...
Curtin Celebrates Ten Years with Rector
Reverend Guy Matthews recently celebrated ten years as Rector of Good Shepherd, Curtin. Guy and Sita were interviewed during the 4:30pm service by the Chair of Parish Council, Michael Simon, and Anglican News asked Guy some questions about longer term ministry in one...
Ordination of Deacons and Priests
On 26th February in St Saviour’s Cathedral Bishop Mark ordained four new priests and two deacons. Bishop Carol, who is also Director of Ordination, preached to those gathered saying: ‘Being called by God to ministry is both a wonderful privilege and serious...