Dear Friends, On Monday, as many of you know, John Clark, John Higgins, Megan Williams, and I met with representatives from Assembly Council. This was the first stage of the NSW/ACT Baptist Association’s disaffiliation process for churches. “The discussion was,” in John Higgins’ words, “cordial and respectful and conducted in Read more…
Dear Church, It seems a number of people could relate to Sunday’s wilderness metaphor! “But,” one said to me, “While I was thinking about how much I feel like I’m in the wilderness at the moment, I looked up and saw people – people in front of me and behind Read more…
Happy New Year! Or – Akemashite omedetō gozaimasu – in Japanese (my new year’s resolution has been to resume studying Japanese on Duolingo). Or as today is actually the start of the Lunar New Year – Gong hei fat choy! Today (as you can see!) our weekly ‘Sunday to Sunday’ Read more…
Dear Friends, I am blown away by this church – and by all of you! Last week the former pastor of Flinders Street Baptist in Adelaide, Rev Scott Cadman, said to me, in relation to the letter we’d received from Assembly Council, that – if you have a good church Read more…
Further edits to my Sunday to Sunday. Subject: Sunday to Sunday, 17 to 24 November 2024 Dear Friends, As was mentioned on Sunday, Canberra Baptist Church has received a letter from Assembly Council initiating the process (voted on by Assembly in June) that leads to the disaffiliation of a church. Read more…
Dear Friends, Apologies for getting my months mixed up in last Friday’s Fellowship News! I hope people worked out from the date (Friday 15th) that Judith Bauer is having surgery this Friday, 15th November! Please pray for her and for Richard as they both navigate significant health challenges at present. Read more…
I mentioned a prayer on Sunday which is often referred to as The Romero Prayer. It has a great deal in common with the teaching and the life of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, who was assassinated on 24 March 1980, as he conducted mass, for speaking Read more…
Dear Friends, There has been a change to this Sunday’s events!We have had to postpone Rev Dr John Harris’s talk on Historic Bibles and their legacy to Sunday, 17th November, at 3:30pm, in the Lounge. So rather than lunch, we will now be having afternoon tea before the talk begins. Read more…
While Belinda is away, she has invited me to produce the Sunday to Sunday reflections.I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some of the key learnings, from this year, of the Currie Crescent Community Centre Advisory Committee. Much of what we’ve learnt came from the three tours (ACT, Melbourne Read more…
As art of last weeks Sunday to Sunday, I shared some of the key learnings, from this year, of the Currie Crescent Community Centre Advisory Committee. Much of what we’ve learnt came from the three tours (ACT, Melbourne and Sydney) held through the year. The good news is that there Read more…