St Marks, Picton may not have all the creature comforts but believers are thirsty for growth.

Many people dont bother with locks. Recently I spoke to a friend who, with his wife was travelling next day to Indonesia on behalf of a missionary society. When I said, "Lock your case," he answered, "I wont bother, I never do." That is the confidence of someone who has made the same trip many times before, as well as perhaps a certainty that no one will find anything to steal in the average clergymans suitcase.

Finding a church near you is now no harder than using your mouse, thanks to the advent of a new 'Church Search tool released by the National Church Life Survey.

Sydney may be in danger of forgetting the victims of Boxing Days tsunami, but not so staff and parents at Tara Anglican School where students' Christian commitment is driving them to get creative for a good cause.

The young clergyman [I can't believe I just wrote that...am I really so aged?] looked puzzled when I asked him if he had an up-to-date 'cradle roll'. I've done a bit of research (you know, asked around the office...real indepth stuff) and it seems that the term is unknown to 'post-boomer' generations.

For single mother, Joanne Mauceri, winter is particularly tough. "Some weeks it gets to the stage where you have to choose between paying the bills and stocking the cupboard," Joanne says.

I remember it well, my tenth birthday. My parents took me to see the new movie that everyone was talking about "Star Wars. It is now nearly thirty years later and George Lucas, the creator,is the head of a multi-billion dollar empire, and the Star Wars myth has become part of the late twentieth centurys fabric of cultural legend and iconography.

Australias fastest growing demographic is being targeted by Christian television programming, with the latest instalment delivered on the Aged Care Channel today.