Every religion, sporting movement and club has plans for recruitment of new members. Especially in today's world, where individualism is everything and membership is not valued, recruitment has to be intentional. Churches are no different. Even the large denominations are beginning to look into this question. All sorts of schemes and plans are launched to help attract new members. The trip overseas to see how it is done elsewhere is a favoured – and often useful – strategy.

With 2.5 million Australians aged over 65, the aged care system is breaking under the pressure of a fast-greying population. Elderly people who are immobile can wait for up to 12 months for a place in a high-care nursing home.

Over 1000 Anglican women around the country have signed a petition stating their opposition to a push for women bishops.

Searching for a good church for a workmate who lives on the other side of the city? Looking for new resources for your small group, but don't know where to begin? Wanting to be more up to date with Christian news from around Sydney? From October 18 Sydney Anglicans will have a new home on the Internet – [url=http://www.sydneyanglicans.net]http://www.sydneyanglicans.net[/url] – that is designed to be a ‘one-stop shop' for news, views and information about the Diocese.

Going to school on a Sunday might seem like the furthest thing from a student's mind, but ‘Christ Church @ the College', the new church plant at Penrith Anglican College, is changing the way students and their parents view the school community.

When Warren Stanley, 59, walks into a crowded Pitt Street auditorium this month, he will be transported back to his days as a young man in 1971. The member of St Paul's, Castle Hill, who became a Christian when he was 17, will listen to Archbishop Peter Jensen's address to the Synod, having witnessed three previous Archbishops take the stage before him.

Christian students at the University of Technology, Sydney fear the unique opportunities they have for evangelism will be lost if a proposal to close the University's Ku-ring-gai campus goes ahead.

Russell Grinter has three years left at Moore College, and plans to work in a rural church after he graduates. Supporters back home in the Riverina are paying his tuition fees, but next year he hopes their money will go to someone else instead. Mr Grinter has signed up for ‘Fee-help', new HECS-style government loans that will be made available to every student from 2005. “If we use Fee-help, then the money can be used for other ministries,” he said. “I'm really pleased about it.”