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Southern Cross
january 2009
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Southern Cross is a free monthly news paper produced by Anglican Media Sydney. You will find this paper at your local Anglican church or get it sent directly to your home using our subscription service.
Get raw with modern-day hymnsters
Garage Hymnal is a band ‘going organic’ and writing very raw Christian music. This week, Josh Maule chews the fat with the members of this band, who are making quite a name for themselves across Sydney, and even as far as the US, the UK and Malaysia. Their new brand of ‘soul’ music is set to help launch the Connect09 campaign this coming Sunday.
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God lives in cyberspace
Australia Day is a celebration of the diversity we all share in this big, brown land. As Christians seek to reach numerous nationalities and language groups with the gospel, Sydney Anglicans are launching an innovative video-based website for Connect09 to assist this work. Journalist and Sydney Anglican minister Geoff Robson discovers that many people have already met God in the anonymity of cyberspace.
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X Factor to connect with Gen Y
A new punk rock outfit has been formed to connect with Sydney’s teens. Qurious are the x-factor in Connect09’s three-pronged youth strategy to connect with young Sydneysiders. It starts with peer evangelism, which then feeds into ‘off the shelf’ video-based high school seminars. The hope is to create a ‘buzz’ that by the end of the year will culminate in a series of live music events.
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Why Jesus is essential
To her surprise, Jenna Allen saw her worries melt away when she was given a Bible to read for herself. Her story is an encouraging example for Sydney Anglicans preparing to give copies of this 'essential' book to the 'Jennas' in their neighbourhoods in 2009, This week we report on how Connect09 aims to help people connect with Jesus, who has the power to transform lives.
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Christmas crowds not just at shopping centres
Sydney churches have seen good attendance this Christmas season with St Andrew's Cathedral using a seating reservation system for Christmas Eve carols for the first time.
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Life begins at Lunch
Volunteers from Turramurra’s Anglican church have helped make a silver-service lunch a hit with residents at a nearby retirement village. Natasha Percy found that the local clergy are surprised by the doors that have opened.
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I didn’t know where to turn
Depression sent Paula Vouris on a spiritual journey. Paula tells Judy Adamson how she ended up outside a church praying that someone would invite her in.
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Riding the church’s new wave
Judy Adamson goes inside a very unusual Sydney church, meets tough, hard-living surfers who have had their lives radically changed, and discovers how a whole suburb is being transformed.
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On a highway to Heaven
Andrew ‘Fishtail’ Fisher loves motor racing but he also loves Jesus Christ. In 2007 he found a way to bring his two passions together and formed the Jesus Racing Team. However, amid the thrill of being a race car driver Andrew has had to endure some extraordinary challenges on top of the mishaps of racing. Joseph Smith went to interview him at Oran Park.
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Collect and connect
Food drives in partnership with Sydney Anglicare offer churches a great reason, and not just a great excuse, to go out and connect with the local community.
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Making connections for life
Archbishop Peter Jensen explains why he believes the Lord is behind the Connect09 campaign.
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Christmas hits right market
Attracting many new community contacts, Mowbray Anglican Church successfully launched a new event in their church’s calendar in 2008: the Christmas Night Market.
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