The Western Sydney Region will launch its first DVD at its Annual Conference at Kellyville Anglican Church on June 19. The DVD is an educational tool for parishes, aimed at promoting strategic planning for mission.

St Peter's, Richmond may have initiated the ninth annual combined Hawkesbury churches ‘Show Outreach' this year, but each church lent their own expertise in meeting the community ‘on their turf'.

Engineer Richard Bow hadn't been happy with his job for some time so when the opportunity to work in Singapore came up he jumped at the chance.

At a time when the parish of Panania is struggling with major property issues, the growing community of believers are also hard at work telling their friends and neighbours about the God they know and trust.

I think it is quite likely that in 50 years' time, our descendants will look back at this period of the history of our culture with wonder and bewilderment. Certainly if it were suggested 50 years ago that there would be dispute about the definition of marriage, all would have been amazed.

Those opposed to the appointment of avowed homosexual Canon Jeffrey John as the new Dean of St Albans received some heavyweight support recently when the Primate of the West Indies, Archbishop Drexel Gomez, said the preferment seriously undermined pleas for restraint.

While churches have done much good in terms of education and health, they could do much more, claims East Timor's Foreign Minister Dr Jose Ramos Horta.

By all accounts it was an ordinary night, even by Kings Cross standards, when a young backpacker with the unforgettable name of Mordechai Vanunu stepped into the entrance hall of St John's, East Sydney. The Moroccan Jew with halting English struck up a conversation with catechist David Smith, then a student at Moore College. He accepted the invitation to join a Bible study.