FEVA (The Fellowship for Evangelism in the Visual Arts) is halfway to reaching its goal of wiping out their deficit of $32,000.

A new report on the growing number of children in care has highlighted the need for early intervention strategies for families, says Anglicare Sydney.

It is arguable that evangelical Christians in Australia today are as well taught and informed on the basic truth of justification by faith in Christ alone as believers anywhere at any point of time in the Churchs history. But often an intellectual and academic understanding of this core Gospel truth fails to grip the heart and lead to inner peace of conscience and joyful closeness to God.

Pastor Bob Kraft is hoping for a match made in Heaven as he brings the gospel to professional tennis players at the Australian Tennis Open this week.

"Example is not the main thing in life"”it is the only thing." Through that sentence, the famous medical missionary and author, Albert Schweitzer, stated clearly the importance and power of example. How many of us reading this, have been influenced by the powerful life of some pastor, elder or other Christian that we saw early in our lives. If I mention "a faithful pastor," whose image crops up in your mind? If I mention "a faithful Christian," who do you think of?

The year's best-read stories on Sydneyanglicans.net included a royal wedding, a papal death, an immigration crisis and a minister shortage. Jog your memory with 2005's ten most popular news items.

Matthew and Samantha Archer fly out this Monday as new CMS missionaries to Tanzania but a last minute hitch with Matts fashion sense almost cost them their visa.

We have had a great week teaching Creation to New Creation to the pastors and leaders here in Delhi. We had 23 male pastors and 15 female leaders sit the course. They were very keen to learn and gave us a heartfelt farewell at the end. There are so many stories to tell, we will share them with you when we return.