They experienced Muslim gunmen shooting at children during their 15 years serving in Pakistan, but the Newmarch family say it is harder to be a Christian at home in Australia.

Who are we are seeking to share Christ with? A recently published report from the Church of England, The Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context (Church House Publishing, 2004) has much to teach us. Or rather, to remind us of what we are also finding in our own Mission.

Who are we are seeking to share Christ with? A recently published report from the Church of England, The Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context (Church House Publishing, 2004) has much to teach us. Or rather, to remind us of what we are also finding in our own Mission.

Trinity Grammar School has taken a bold step to support the Diocesan Mission and in doing so has revitalised a local church.

So great have been the technological changes of the last decades that many church buildings have had to undergo radical alterations. The result are frequently incoherent and messy.

Radical moves by the Church of England may see cafés and nightclubs opened up in parish buildings to pay for church planting, and historic bishop’s houses and palaces sold if they do not meet strict financial targets.

George Whitefield Theological College in Cape Town, South Africa, has announced the appointment of its first indigenous African lecturer. The college says the appointment of the Rev Siegfried Ngubane to the long-awaited Lectureship in African Church Planting and Leadership Ministries is an initiative to address the needs of a growing number of multi-racial churches.

With the nation’s emergency response arrangements under review, the role of Christian agencies in disaster recovery has been given unprecedented support by Australian governments.