Sydney-based Youth ministry The RICE Movement is growing from strength to strength and last Saturdays RICEfest was no exception.

Readers of sydneyanglicans.net have a special opportunity to ask questions of American preacher Mark Driscoll in the next 24 hours.

We are being inundated with a glut of Christian conferences and conventions.

Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle, has arrived in Australia for a range of speaking engagements. Sydneyanglicans.net spoke to the hippest hero for today's young evangelicals and found a man 'grieved that the ipod generation might idolise him instead of Jesus. Watch the video interview.

Read an extract from a talk Mark Driscoll gave in Edinburgh, Scotland in November last year which caused some controversy.

Many people today call themselves Christian or even Evangelical, but do not live by the word of God. They give lip service to the authority of the Bible, but they do not base their lives upon it. They use the Bible, but they do not submit to it. Their Christian faith was commenced in evangelical Protestantism, but those beliefs do not govern their actions.

As the World Vision 40 Hour Famine begins today, one 80-year-old will be seeking to top her fundraising effort from last year.

MCSI will not continue in its current form in 2009 following an insufficient number of students enrolling in subjects this year.