The funding strategy for Sydneys Connect 09 campaign has divided Sydneys Synod, with an alternative means-based charging system narrowly defeated at Wednesday nights session.

After hearing that a pilot study of six church sites found that four had loose asbestos, Synod yesterday voted unanimously to pass a new law which will help clean up the risk.

Sydney Anglican parishes are set to pay "the price of a movie and a Big Mac" every week for the next three years to fund the resources for Connect 09, Synod heard last night.

The Sydney Diocese reclassified three churches to parish status at Synod yesterday and there are still two more to come.

The Mission presentation at Synod last night has given Sydney Diocese the first glimpses of the new Diocesan strategy, Connect 09.

The Archbishop Peter Jensen says Sydney Anglicans have reached a spiritual mountain of scepticism and secularism that must climbed if the Diocesan Mission is to succeed and the city won for Christ.

No one is color blind. Issues of race affect our thinking, whether we are conscious of it or not. You wont find Frank Wus book Yellow in the Christian section of the bookstore. But if youre a pastor or church leader interested in knowing how to love and serve ethnic minorities in your congregation, it may be worth reading.

As the Mission reaches its half-way mark, sydneyanglicans.net republishes Archie Poulos' helpful reflections on the goal to see 10% of Sydney in Bible-believing congregations that has energised the efforts of the past five years.