News of the recent peace agreement in the Sudan has been met with ambivalence by displaced Sudanese in Cairo, according to CMS NSW worker Mark Bennett. The former Director of Refuge Egypt said the Darfur crisis reinforced their scepticism about the agreement.

The Mission calls for the multiplying of congregations, but just how is it done?

When a recent meeting took place between Indian Hindus in Fiji and eight Christians from Richmond, it was the start of an unlikely friendship built on a mutual love for Christ. In September a group from St Peter’s, Richmond embarked on a mission trip to Fiji to work with missionary couple Frank and Robyn Hawkes at an Indian Baptist church near the capital, Suva. The team shared the Matthias Media gospel presentation Two Ways to Live with the local Indian minority.

In January this year, Liz Burns went to Tanzania as a long-term CMS missionary, having spent two years there as a short-term volunteer. In July, after months of Swahili language study at Iringa in the south of Tanzania, she set up home in Murgwanza, in the country’s remote north-west. Liz joined the team of Kagera Technical and Christian Training Centre with a desire to see more people empowered to study the Bible meaningfully for themselves.

This is a brief reflection about three words found in Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. The first two words appear in Paul’s ‘thanksgiving’ near the beginning. He thanks God for (1) their ‘speech’, and (2) their ‘knowledge.’ Of course the two are connected. First they ‘know’ and then they ‘speak.’

The story of the Anglican Church of Australia could be interpreted as one like Jerusalem in the days of Jeremiah and Ezra. Our best days have become distant memories, our people are living in a far off land, the walls have collapsed and no strength is left.