When a new arrival turns parents’ lives upside down, the changes come thick and fast. How can churches help?

A ukulele festival seems like an unlikely gospel opportunity, but that’s reckoning without the enthusiastic community outreach of St Hilda’s at Katoomba.

Thank you for the sacrifices our ministers make to point us to Jesus. Thank you for the way your gospel has gripped their hearts, for the humble leadership they show. Thank you for the way they point us to you, for their insight and wisdom.

Junior Jivers at Glenmore Park has been running for more than 10 years. It started out as a group of about 20 parents and ballooned from there. Other churches in Sydney have visited to see how the program runs and use its model in their own context.

There is a huge number of people out there waiting to hear the gospel from Christians

"There's been a lot of talk about burnout of clergy and those sorts of things. We want to make it normal that we as gospel ministers are developing, making time to develop our convictions, our character and our competencies – and not feeling guilty about it."

There's been an urgent call for members of the Billy Graham Crusade choirs to reunite for a Thanksgiving service on Friday, 9 March.

Belmore Anglican Church has been connecting with its local community through regular community dinners. The plan for the 2018 dinners is to continue to expand on some brief interviews with church members that were introduced last year, and also seek to cater to the wide range of ethnic backgrounds represented.