Church plant of the month. The quiet voice on the other end of the phone is Alex Ho, IT consultant, gospel worker and, believe it or not, a missionary sent from Cabramatta to Pyrmont. He is an honourary worker at Peninsula Community Church helping people “to know Jesus, to know him more and more, and to share that with others,” he says.

The recent tragedy involving Daniela Dawes, who killed her autistic son after struggling to care for him, has highlighted the need for programs that offer respite care to families with a child with a disability.

God is being praised because Sydney Diocese's special school has been saved from closure, writes Madeleine Collins.

Dean Phillip Jensen has written to all rectors in Sydney urging them to consider employing a graduate from Moore College in 2006.

Prime Minister John Howard has commended St Andrew's Cathedral School for its efforts in ‘fostering relationships with USA schools and leading musical centres' during one of the School's most successful overseas music tours to the United States.

Most of the Diocese of Sydney is in full engagement with the Archbishop's challenge to mission. We are in mission focus and this is leading us to reconsider all our usual activities and the presumptions on which they are based. Time has been spent reviewing the present so we can effectively move into the future.

Well-known Australian sociologist Hugh Mackay, has written his latest book Right & Wrong: How to Decide for Yourself in direct response to his research over the past few years which shows that Australians are finding it increasingly difficult to make moral decisions.