A thanksgiving service for plane crash victim Morgan Mellish will be held at St Andrew's Cathedral tomorrow.
The 36-year-old Australian Financial Review journalist was one of five Australians who died in the Garuda plane crash in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on March 7.
Mr Mellish was in Indonesia working as a Jakarta-based foreign correspondent.
The thanksgiving service will be held on Wednesday March 21 at 10.00am in St Andrew's Cathedral on George Street, Sydney.
As many as 600 family, friends and work colleagues are expected to attend the service, which is being organized by the Rev Dominic Steele, leader of the Christians in the Media ministry.
"In the media we are very good at dealing with disaster when it is far away, but we find it very hard to deal with tragedy up close," Mr Steele says.
"Morgan's death has sent shockwaves through the industry, firstly because he was so popular and such a good journalist, but also because he was a reporter who died doing what every journo does. It could have been any one of us."
Mr Steele is preaching at the service. The Archdeacon of South Sydney, Deryck Howell will lead the service and the Bishop of South Sydney Rob Forsyth will lead the prayers.
Ben Hunter, a childhood friend of Mr Mellish will present the eulogy. Other friends including Australian Financial Review editor, Glenn Burge, will speak at a morning tea following the service.
For further details contact Dominic Steele on 0409 468 387 or Margaret Rodgers on 0411 692 499.
