Dear Friends, I am on leave this week (until Thursday 9 October), but thinking about the May Mission Month theme, ‘Mending’, I was reminded of a reflection I wrote in May 2019 about the BBC series, The Repair Shop. (You might remember episodes of this programme being aired on the Read more…
I have two clear memories of unwanted prayer for ‘healing’. The first was when I was a young woman and went to see our pastor to relay the young people’s concerns about the Sunday evening service. (As background, the pastor had decided that every Sunday night service should centre on Read more…
Dear Friends, The events of Saturday onwards have been a constant onslaught. The news of killings in the Bondi Junction Shopping Centre. The heartbrokenness of parents grieving for the lives their son had taken, as well as the life of their son. The extraordinary acts of courage in the face Read more…
It was incredibly tragic news, over a week ago now, that aid worker Zomi Frankcom had been killed by an Israeli airstrike, along with six other aid workers, while delivering food aid in northern Gaza. It was particularly poignant to hear this news at Easter. As the Frankcom family reflected, Read more…
Dear Friends, What an incredible Easter weekend we have had! It started quietly on Maundy Thursday with a small group – 11 disciples gathered in a room (I only realised later the significance of that number!) – participating in the actions of washing feet, sharing the last supper, and remembering Read more…
Dear Friends, I have, quite literally this Easter, gone down a rabbit hole! Well, not a rabbit hole, exactly! I have been doing a course through Whitley College on Early Christianity in Context and I become very interested in catacombs! I assume many of you, like me, were brought up Read more…
Dear Friends On Sunday we were exploring the relationship between ‘God’s glory’ and ‘lives that are lived for others’. (John 12:23) And on Monday night I saw another beautiful example of this. (You might see a few faces you recognise in the picture!) At the Micah Women Leader’s Event, Asuntha Read more…
Dear Friends, Last Sunday’s bulletin included a knitting pattern! It was a new pattern for the Common Grace Climate Change Scarf, a scarf with a stripe representing the average global temperature for each year across the last 100 years. The new pattern has come about because 2023 marked the hottest Read more…
Dear Friends, I went to the David Hunter Memorial Lecture last night and was thinking – as we drove away – that the word I would use the describe the evening was ‘feisty’. But I’m embarrassed now I chose that word. Calling the evening’s speakers ‘feisty’ minimises the depth and Read more…
Dear Friends, We had a wonderful celebration on Sunday of 95 years of loving and serving God, God’s people and God’s world here in Canberra! Here is the picture John Clark took on Sunday – replicating the black and white image of people gathered around the church on our commencement Read more…