Jan Rees is a poet and an associate minister at St Augustine's, Neutral Bay. The following verses are her reflections on the devastating terrorist attacks on the city of London over the past weeks. In it she poses the crucial question, what has become of the Christian distinctiveness in a world rent by innocent deaths?

Its easy to throw stones at ministries that are different to our own. In Sydney we have our traditional parish churches and newer "affinity" focused churches which gather people engaged in similar activities, who are usually more mobile so that the church draws from a wider region.

Snowbucks Café has proved to be a major drawcard for parents bringing kids to the HAWK holiday club at St Marks, Thornleigh-Pennant Hills.

Anglicare, the welfare arm of the Sydney Diocese, has announced major changes to its division responsible for a wide range of church-focused services.

On paper, Anglicare is marginal to the Dioceses main game of church planting. JEREMY HALCROW investigates the implications.

Its a long way from the town of Cheng Du to Sydney, but the journey has been the most important one of Wendy Wengs life.

Andrew Lim, a self-confessed technology junky, says ministers hoping to keep in contact with the generations of the new millennium will have to learn to make advances in communication work for them.

From the earliest days of the Sydney colony, Anglicans have been involved in 'good works. Anglican Chaplain Samuel Marsden established schools for orphans and training institutions for convict mums. These became the forerunners of the Church of England Homes.