Every month, STUART ROBINSON will introduce us to people with a connection to the Diocese of Sydney, who are now serving God overseas. In the first installment, we catch up with David Short in Vancouver, Canada.

Record numbers of students at Moore College are making history and sowing the seeds for mission.

The division often drawn between evangelism and social welfare is an unhelpful one. There is a proper order with evangelism coming first, but there is no disjunction between the two.

Wondering if you have the right gifts to head onto the mission field? Simply speaking English may be enough to open doors for ministry in 21st century South-East Asia, writes GEOFF ROBSON.

Archbishop Peter Carnley has announced that he will retire as head of the Anglican Church of Australia from February next year. He will leave his post as Archbishop of Perth and Primate of the Anglican Church on May 25, 2005.

For many globetrotting Christian missionaries, the biggest challenge may not be finding their way around the world, but making their way around once they have returned home. But David Burn and ‘Missionary Motors' are helping to provide the crucial motorised support for missionaries to conduct the local arm of their ministry.

The mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse by police and teachers may prevent DoCS from identifying children genuinely at risk. NSW opposition leader John Brogden made these claims to 100 representatives from church and charitable groups last year at the launch of the Coalition's new social policy document, Testing the Heart of our State.

Drawing on five decades of wisdom, Tim Hawkins says genuine leadership, not age, is the key to Christian ministry.