Sydney Anglicans will have to prepare for a severe case of culture shock if they are to provide any useful service overseas, two prominent missionaries will tell a city meeting later this week.

Struck down with an utterly debilitating 'mystery illness, Sydney Anglican and Sky News presenter Leigh Hatcher falls from the high-flying, adrenalin fuelled life of one of Australias best known TV journalists to an anonymous welfare recipient in a matter of months.

The tragic and gripping life story of Bernard Suwa, who arrived in Sydney as a refugee in 2000, gives insight into how Christ has transformed thousands of lives devastated by the darkest of evils.

The Christian service of a Sydney choir master has been rewarded by national recognition with the release of the Queens Birthday Awards.

When talk in church turns to evangelism, reactions in the congregation typically range from adrenalin charged excitement to sheer terror. From best selling author and evangelist, John Dickson, comes a practical guide to the biblical art of sharing your faith.

A tragic pedestrian accident has built new bridges for St Andrews Cathedral School as the community unites to support an injured friend.

Last month I put in a plea that we see church planting as ministry multiplication, and ministry multiplication is something we are all engaged in. This month I want to argue that the success of ministry multiplication is not measured by long term viability of the new ministry.

Many people, viewing the tiny, frail, elderly deaconess speaking often in the Sydney Synod may not have realised that they were listening to one of the most extraordinary female ministers in the history of the Diocese of Sydney. It may be some time before her like is seen again.