Paul and Jecinta were two of the students from the two-week Creation to New Creation course (also known as Introduction to the Bible) conducted during October in Nairobi, Kenya by the Rev Peter Sholl, assistant minister at St Matthew's, Ashbury.

The present case before the Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Victoria, under that State's Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, has raised the real questions of freedom of speech and religious tolerance in a civil society. The case concerns vilification purported to have been done by a charismatic Christian group in a seminar on the differences between Christians and Muslims. What stand should Christians take in such a matter?

Michael Youssef's dual-language broadcasts of the gospel have uncovered a great spiritual hunger.

I grew up in Greenacre, Sydney with my Polish parents. They were WWII refugees. I am 43, have two daughters and two grandkids, and I work as a chef and a TAFE teacher. My wife Jen and I live 40 minutes out of Orange on ‘Kataan', a sheep farm where we moved in 1991 to escape the ‘rat race'. My Dad had just died of cancer.

Orange Evangelical Church has found annual missions an effective strategy to keep evangelism on the agenda.

MADELEINE COLLINS meets Catherine Hamlin, an extraordinary Australian who has spent the last 44 years in Ethiopia, bringing the gospel to young women suffering the pain and the shame of fistula.

Why our churches need a radical change in mindset when it comes to the nature of Christian ministry.

As a child I remember Mum getting me to take my younger brothers' Christmas presents around to our auntie's house to be hidden and collected on Christmas Eve. Mum would also often hide our presents in our house. Most times we found them and we gradually perfected the art of unwrapping them, playing with them, then re-wrapping so that Mum would not find out. We actually thought that we could outwit our Mum!