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.

Many people think the ideal youth leader is someone who wears the latest clothes, listens to the latest music, sports the latest haircut and body piercing"¦ but most importantly, is young. Yet one of the main reasons we have a preference for young leaders is due to the flawed mission strategy that expects adults to be the main agents in building bridges with non-Christian youths.

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.

Names for Nothingness is about a modern family dealing with empty spaces that should be filled to the brim. In relationships that are characterised by a one-step-forwards-two-steps-back choreography, the teenage Caitlin, her mother Sharn and step-father, Liam, live with disappointment, regret and things unsaid, trying to maintain a calm surface while the feelings beneath start to surge.

Amir Mesrinejad is from Iran. He is currently being held in Villawood IDC, where he has been for over 4 years. Since being in detention, Amir has become a Christian, but he may soon be deported.

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.

The opening sentence of Anna Karenina could easily be modified to fit families in which there is a disabled child, for each disability is different and each child with a disability is born in a different context, it makes a huge difference whether the child with a disability is the first born, the only child or as in my case the youngest of three whose elder brothers are healthy and active.