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Wagga Wagga Friends Host Their Own Fund-Raiser Lunch
An advertisement appeared in the latest Newsletter from Friends of St Saviour's Cathedral, which was an ‘Invitation to a Soup and Sandwich Lunch that Isn’t’. The Soup and Sandwich Lunch has been an annual fund raising event for the Friends, but this year COVID...
Meet Deacon Sarah Plummer
In May I was appointed Executive Manager for Mission and Training with Anglicare (NSW South, West & ACT), responsible for overseeing all induction, formal training, mission formation and chaplaincy within Anglicare. My role also includes engaging with parishes in...
Good things can be even better
Good things can be even better when we do them together. Next year, our Diocese will be participating together in three seasons of focussed engagement to help us better understand our shared call to mission. The first season, of study, will take place during Lent –...
Bishop Mark’s Christmas Message – Grace and Truth
Sometimes we struggle to know how to pursue two good goals simultaneously. Take, for example, the yearning for freedom and the desire to be safe. Both are important to us, but throw in a pandemic, the internet and a dose of scepticism towards authority and there’ll be...
Holbrook Finds Ways to Be Good and Be Different
The COVID Pandemic has created opportunities to think outside the box and be creative and stay positive. Holbrook Parish has been doing just that, especially with not being able to sing in worship. Someone at our church came up with the idea of getting all the musical...
Celebrating St Simon’s Day
On Saturday night, 24 October, St Simon’s in Kaleen hosted a dinner in celebration of St Simon’s Day. So many folk enjoyed seeing each other face to face at dinner, and then again on Sunday morning, that Archdeacon Paul Cohen had to referee the hugging. At the Sunday...
A COVID-19 Safe Morning Tea
Bishop Mark Short had the immense honour of preaching at the last of the COVID-19 combined services for St John's Anglican Church, Bega; St Martin By The Sea, Tathra; and Christ Church, Bemboka, on the 11th October. The congregations celebrated this transition in true...
Pet Blessing and Launch of Noah’s Ark Pet Ministry
St Francis Day was a glorious spring day which saw an excited group of people gather in the Community Garden at Holy Covenant in Cook for the pet blessing and launch of the Noah’s Ark Pet Ministry. The gardens were looking just lovely and the dogs and hamsters had all...
Reflecting on my Ministry
It was a privilege to attend the October Parakaleo basic training workshop, on 16-18 October 2020, with 28 ministry wives from Canberra and Goulburn and surrounds. Five of the women registered were from rural/regional Australia. Parakaleo is a Christian organisation...
The Jewellery of St John’s, Wagga Wagga
Early in 2019, St John’s chorister and local manufacturing jeweller, Roley McIntyre, approached the then rector of Wagga Anglican, The Venerable David Ruthven, with an idea of producing a wholesale jewellery range based on images from St John’s Wagga Wagga. They would...