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Deacon Profile – Hazel Davies and MakingPeasce
'For we are God’s handiwork created in Christ to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.' Ephesians 2:10 Arrernte elder Coco Wallace and I sat in the shadow of Untyeyetwelye. He is the story holder for this sacred space more recently known as ANZAC...
Zooming in on the National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast
Like many events this year the National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast adjusted to social distancing and ran a livestream event on Monday, 12 October. Groups around Canberra gathered together over breakfast to participate, including a gathering at St John’s Reid. In...
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
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
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
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
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...