More than thirty Moore College students have held an impromptu prayer meeting at the gates of the Villawood Detention Centre, asking God to save the life of an Iranian asylum seeker imprisoned there.

FEVA, an evangelistic ministry to Sydney's visual arts students and working artists, is holding an art exhibition today at St Stephen's, Willoughby to raise funds for their newly employed evangelist Cameron Blair.

A Sydney Anglican faces a death sentence if the Department of Immigration pushes ahead with plans to deport him to Iran, says the Principal of Moore College.

To win the Jews, Paul was prepared to 'become like a Jew'. To win rowers, Malcolm Reid is getting ready to climb on board at the Sydney International Regatta Centre.

In almost any other career, people would regard 38-year-old Andrew Patch as being at the peak of his working life. But in the world of youth ministry, most would have expected someone of Andrews vintage to have long since moved on to other areas of Christian work.

A group of Moore College students and lecturers are inviting interested people to attend at protest at Villawood Detention Centre tomorrow afternoon.

Meeting together regularly is vital for Sydney Anglican women involved in the Diocesan Mission, says an organiser of a sell-out womens dinner held this week.

Prayers will be answered this Easter Sunday when Glossodias one and only church opens its doors for the first time.

More than twelve hundred people have crammed the Hills Centre in Castle Hill to testify to the evangelistic efforts being made in Sydneys north west.

In just two months Andrew Lewis has gone from running Australias naval operations for tsunami-ravaged South Asia to deciphering ancient Greek in a Newtown library.

In an unique evangelistic event, the 10.45am congregation at St Pauls Carlingford are inviting their friends and neighbours to the movies this Saturday night.

The street names of Macquarie Fields conjure up images of paradise: tea tree, hibiscus, rosewood, peppermint, wild orange. But appearances are deceptive in the sleepy suburb nestled in bushland southwest of Sydney. Young lives have been lost, blood has been shed and Anglicans like Prue Gregory are left to heal the wounds.

Its a new academic year and Sydney Christian university groups are running at top gear to promote their activities and make contact with new students. On the other side of the world a handful of Italian students have been learning about evangelism from their British brothers and sisters.

Consumerism is the new religion, Christendom is dead and buried and the Church is widely seen as peripheral, obscure, irrelevant and confusing. This is the reality facing Sydney Anglicans today, the Bishop of Maidstone has warned, and it is an illusion to assume people outside the Church are just waiting for the right invitation to come back.

A single vessel, grounded on the sand, holds the hopes of dozens of people from one devastated village in Sri Lanka. Boats donated by the Archbishops Overseas Relief and Aid Fund (ORAF) are slowly transforming the lives of communities devastated by the Christmas tsunami.