Annandale has found that jazzing up the traditional Christmas carols has helped their event work in a trendy inner-city community.

The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, has responded to news that leading evangelicals in the Church of England have met with the Archbishop of Canterbury and presented a Covenant promoting "new, informal networks" among churches that are unable to maintain fellowship with Anglicans with whom they disagree.

There will be no Christmas shopping this year in the capital, but the Rev Maafu Palu hopes that the first Tongan biblical theology book will brighten up an otherwise bleak Christmas in the riot-ravaged nation.

Doug and Jill DeNiro* are choosing to go to the mission fields of South East Asia at a time when most couples would begin enjoying their retirement years.

Witnessing to your community at Christmas - a blitz or a process? Stuart Robinson examines a real conversion story and the arguments for the long-term lead-up to evangelism.

In part one of our series on top Christmas outreach ideas, a group of south coast churches have used video mini-sermons to reach the MTV generation as part of a community carols event.

Despite the shopping frenzy statistics still show church attendance by Australians increases by two and a half times at Christmas. So are there better ways for our churches to be telling them the good news? Each day this week we will rate a different parish Christmas event and reveal what worked and what did not.

As part of our analysis of top Christmas outreach events, we reveal how pony rides in a graveyard helped St Stephen's, Newtown, double their church attendance.