As Katoomba Christian Convention celebrates 100 years of Bible teaching, the future may lie in helping to train Christians for ministry in the local church, found Geoff Robson

The year was 1947. During a choir practice at St Clement's, Mosman, Trevor Young was, by his own reckoning, ‘overwhelmed by Jesus'. Not having had much to do with church, Trevor was now passionately committed to serving the Lord. He recalls, “at home, in sport, in friendships, every moment was taken up in finding people with whom I could share Christ.”

For several years, plans have been drawn up to plant churches in the new housing areas of western Sydney. Work has been proceeding steadily in the ‘North-West Sector' (centred on the parish of Kellyville). While three years ago a church was planted in Arndell Anglican College.

When Niki Shepherd committed her life to Christ at the age of 12, one of the consequences was the merging of two passions that would shape her future: music and God.

Link speaks to regional Bishop, Ivan Lee, about the challenges and opportunities ahead for Western Sydney

After all the twists and turns of the Hollingworth saga will anyone ever again want to be the Governor–General of Australia? From now on we can expect a close scrutiny of the previous career path, professional decisions and personal relationships of any proposed incumbent for the office.

Mark Calder says that in our enthusiam to fight against ‘worship' being reduced to the Sunday service, Anglicans in Sydney have actually made ‘worship' everything bar the hour on Sunday.

“There is a big need for this sort of training in Kenya,” says Stephen Mbogo, head of African Evangelistic Enterprise – Kenya, of the Moore College External Studies course ‘Creation to New Creation', which was recently taught in Nairobi.