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Readers of Sydneyanglicans.net are among the big winners after Anglican Media Sydney picked up a record seven awards at the 2010 ARPA awards.
Richard Coekin, senior minister of the Co-Mission Initiative in London, has urged Sydney churches to work together at a recent conference for ministry workers.
Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild, recently featured in a Christian ad campaign and Anglican churches have had inquiries as a result.
Christian voters, like the rest of Australia, face a wait which could stretch to weeks, before the make-up of a new government is known.
The reigning mountain biking 24-hour World Solo Champion will line up in Canberra in October to defend his title, proclaiming his Christianity.
As the election campaign enters its final week, school funding and chaplaincies are among the issues confronting Christian voters.
Academic wins Christian book of the year by looking at Australian unbelief.
An Anglican judicial panel has disagreed with Sydney’s Synod on the introduction of diaconal administration of the Lord’s Supper.
In an unusual move, Mike Paget will be inducted as the new rector of St Barnabas', Broadway today. Meanwhile their grafitti signboard critic responds...
The so-called Christian vote entered the election spotlight at the weekend with journalists asking questions about atheism, catholic leaders and the ACL voting guide.
If you are of the opinion that theological institutions such as Moore College are just about head knowledge, students and faculty are out to change your mind.
NSW’s only Protestant Christian adoption agency has urged state MPs to vote against a private members bill which would allow the adoption of children by same-sex couples.
Australian leaders have been ignoring ageing carers, people with complex disabilities and others facing social exclusion, according to Anglicare.
Church planting, and particularly cross-cultural church planting, is becoming increasingly important in a city that is constantly growing.
A Bible owned by William Shakespeare has recently received sponsorship to ensure its continued preservation
A public meeting on the so-called 'ethics' classes has been told the prospects of NSW Labor's loss will cause a rush of last minute changes to long standing policies.
Yagoona parish is sponsoring the theological training of a dozen Zimbabwean church leaders.
Sydney churches collect more than 25,000 items for Anglicare to distribute to needy families.
Anglican Media’s quest to find our favourite church song is in its final stages and we need your help (and your vote!)
Warden dies before 500-seat church opens
More than 600 young people from 10 churches in the Sutherland Shire have launched a movement which aims to tackle the problems facing youth ministry in Sydney.
Archbishop Peter Jensen has hand-picked 18 rectors to be mission leaders in order to boost local mission endeavours across all parishes.
Anglicare Sydney today announced that an in-principle agreement had been reached with the NSW Government on the future of the education and residential services for students of Kingsdene Special School and their families.
Christian leaders are considering how new leadership will affect their relationship with the government.
Anglican Youthworks Year 13 students head to Fiji on mission
The Australian Christian Lobby's second leader's debate has been broadcast live from Canberra to hundreds of churches around the country, with both leaders mostly agreeing to agree on one some of the major issues of interest to Christians.
A recent ‘Connecting with Catholics’ conference is set to become an annual event, giving Sydney church workers an opportunity to share ideas and discuss effective ways of reaching the Catholic population.
Christians have an opportunity to apply for $100,000 worth of grants aimed at those who have a heart for mission.
UPDATED Nearly 400 people came to Christ as Will Graham, grandson of Billy Graham, spoke at a number of evangelistic rallies in north-west NSW last month.
A congregation from St Thomas's, North Sydney will soon move to Northbridge to start a new evening service at St Mark's.
An experimental new media approach is part of an appeal that is being run by CMS to raise $1.6 million by the end of the 2010 financial year.
Sydney is set to join other capital cities in hosting a citywide prayer breakfast
The boundaries for the 18 mission areas of the Sydney Diocese have been finalised and prospective mission leaders are being contacted with a view to the programme getting underway towards the end of 2010.
The Islamic Council of NSW and Cardinal George Pell have joined Sydney Anglicans in their disapproval of the ethics trial.
St Luke’s Anglican Church, Liverpool will move into a new ministry centre this weekend.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, have announced that they will address Australian churches via a web-cast on June 21.
One of the first major events of the re-purposed Evangelism Ministries has been announced.
A strategic church plant is about to begin in Canterbury to reach out to a city filled with cultural depth but increasingly ignorant of the gospel.
In his initial response to the Federal Budget last night, Anglicare Sydney CEO Peter Kell says, “the Treasurer’s zeal for a ‘fiscally responsible’ budget has seen Australians living at the
margins largely forgotten yet again”.
Amid ongoing controversy in the public education system about alleged mismanagement of grants from the Federal Government’s Building Education Revolution, schools under the umbrella of the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation (SASC) tell a different story.
Church planting, ministry to people in high-rise blocks and 'tough areas' will be the targets of the Connect for Life prayer day to be held this Friday.
If ethics classes compete with SRE as planned then Scripture enrolments will be slashed by up to 60 percent, the Government's trial at ten NSW public schools indicates.
The Board of the SDS and GAB has announced that the Chief Executive Officer, Steve McKerihan, has stepped down from that role.
Leaders of the Global South have called for a review of Anglican Communion structure after one prominent figure said it was moving “further into darkness”.
Archbishop Peter Jensen has delivered an address at the Remembrance service which ended the Sydney ANZAC Day march, as Anglican churches across Sydney marked the 95th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
Well-known evangelists Karl Faase and Al Stewart have launched a new TV show pitched as a cross between The Footy Show, Rove and Katoomba Men’s Convention.
Many Australian Christians see Islam as a threat to their way of life and instead of reaching out to Muslims they withdraw from them.
With those words, The Rev. Canon Peter Lindsay Hayward has undertaken the promises of a bishop at his consecration as the new Bishop of Wollongong.
Premier Kristina Keneally has assured Archbishop Peter Jensen there will be a full independent assessment of the trial of ethics classes in NSW schools.
More than 30 parishes have benefited from the State Government’s Community Building grant program.
The new Bishop of Wollongong Peter Hayward starts work today after a hectic three months finishing parish ministry and preparing for two family marriages.
The Archbishop of Sydney has raised the issue of loneliness in society in his 2010 Easter Message, calling it a major social problem.
Russell Powell, the Archbishop of Sydney’s media adviser, has been appointed as CEO of Anglican Media Sydney.
Anglican Retirement Villages has officially opened the doors to Marcus Loane House, a world-class facility for low level-care and dementia specific care, within a magnificent new retirement community at Warriewood Brook on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Free access to the Australian Christian Channel will end this month, after the regulator ACMA pulled the plug on the six-year trial of datacasting in Sydney.
For the first time, Archbishop Peter Jensen has recorded a special message for churches for Anzac Day, which this year falls on a Sunday.
Allan Dowthwaite, CEO of Anglican Media Sydney, has resigned to take up a new role with independent think-tank and media organisation the Centre for Public Christianity (CPX).
As horrific eye-witness stories arrive from earthquake-devestated Concepción, Chile's Anglicans are calling for financial support rather than material donations.
A practical need for more Christians to meet and befriend young offenders has emerged as Anglicare appeals for prayer and support of its chaplains.
I have always been a supporter of the minimalist view of the role of archaeology and its relationship to the Bible. Occasionally, however, discoveries are made which have a direct bearing on the historicity of the Scriptures.
Today marks the dawn of a new era in ministry to people with a disability.
An estimated 90 per cent of parishes are happy with the draft boundaries for 18 new mission areas, according to the bishop who is running the consultation process.
Three of the most prominent preachers in the Sydney Diocese are in Britain this month to take part in a nationwide outreach called "A Passion for Life".
CMS has confirmed Australian missionaries in the Chile quake zone are safe but there are concerns for local churches in the worst-hit area, the city of Concepción.
The first stage of the conversion of the Connect09 campaign into an ongoing program has begun with the launch of the slogan 'Connect for Life' and a new logo.
Anglicare Sydney and the running group at St Barnabas', East Roseville, are encouraging Sydney churches to use jogging to connect to the community.
The Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, swung the first sledgehammer blow into the remains of the old St Barnabas’, Broadway, in a special media event on Friday to mark the beginning of the rebuilding process.
Archbishop Jensen has asked for prayer for the health of Sydney Diocesan Secretariat CEO Steve McKerihan.
More than 500 students will study at Moore or Youthworks Colleges in 2010.
As ABC's Four Corners' turn its spotlight onto the nation's disability crisis, including the closure of Kingsdene school, Anglicare's CEO Peter Kell provides this backgrounder.
After months of uncertainty about the future, the head of Maroubra Surfers’ Church will become rector of Holy Trinity, Kingsford.
Consultations have begun on creating 18 mission areas, with Archbishop Jensen more convinced than ever about the proposal.
The first ever Anglican-linked church designed specifically for multicultural Green Valley in South-West Sydney opened its doors yesterday afternoon.
There were smiles all round for the 57 candidates attending their pre-ordination conference this week but one smile was wider than most.
More than 200,000 primary school kids from Sydney public schools are estimated to resume protestant Scripture classes in their schools this week.
The Dean of Sydney has told holiday crowds that Christians have become confused between emotionalism and rationalism and unable to think out the place of emotions in the christian life.
In Christian ministry, it’s taken for granted that we care. But sometimes, caring is not enough.
The Deputy Chancellor of the Sydney Diocese, Robert Tong has been named in the Australia Day honours list but describes the honour as a symbolic recognition of all who work in similar roles to support gospel ministry.
As Youthworks College celebrates its tenth birthday, the man who oversees theological education in Australia says it is rare: a newly established Bible College with a majority of female graduates.
Sydney-based Christian relief agency CNEC Partners International have confirmed that despite rioting, violence, and the death of a number of their link pastors, they are sending aid via their devastated partner congregations in earthquake-hit Haiti.
Anglican Youthworks hosted its seventh LiT Conference last week at Deer Park Conference Centre, attracting a record 152 Christian teenage students from over 65 schools across NSW.
Anglicare Sydney is launching a series of seven specialised workshops to assist local churches undertake more effective caring or mercy ministries.
It’s been more than 40 years, but in 2010 CMS is sending missionaries back to the South American country of Bolivia.
CMS (the Church Missionary Society) is in uncertain financial waters, said CMS-NSW General Secretary John Bales at the opening session of this year’s CMS Summer School at Katoomba.
After running at a loss for two years, CMS NSW launched the 2010 appeal at Katoomba yesterday to ensure missionaries have the funds they need.
Anglican Churches around Sydney have continued their Connect09 distribution of Luke's Gospel - 'The Essential Jesus' as crowds flocked to Christmas services.
The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, has referred to the recent political leadership issues in delivering his annual Christmas message.
Sydney Anglican churches have helped lead the way in providing gifts to 3,500 diadvantaged kids this Christmas via Anglicare's Toys 'n' Tucker campaign.
It may not be seemly to call it record-breaking, but St Andrew's Cathedral is preparing to hold 13 Christmas events in 7 days.
Plans for a major redevelopment of Moore Theological College, including seven-storey tower, have passed the first hurdle.
Canon Peter Hayward has been appointed as the new Bishop of Wollongong.
While two thousand students trekked to the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Friday night to make LOUD! as noisy as possible, the night was life-changing for nearly 50 young people.
Keen for the work of Parish Recovery Teams to continue within the Sydney Diocese, the Safe Ministry Board is looking for up to 15 volunteers
Landcom estimates that 35,000 people will move into Oran Park over the next 20 years.
Helping the people of Camden weather difficult times is a new counselling service through the kindness of an anonymous benefactor.
The St James Ethics Centre proposal to teach an ethics course to children who do not attend Scripture is ill conceived, misguided and discriminatory.
While many of his contemporaries are on schoolies break, one year 12 student is spending his time organising prayer for the youth of Sydney.
Christina McMillan volunteers one day a week to teach SRE. She is one of the many Christians who could benefit from the Timothy Partnership.
As 16 deacons prepare to be ordained as presbyters, two of the men already head up the parishes they will officially take charge of after November 28.
Four leading diocesan figures are being farewelled this month but the goodbyes are only temporary as they continue their ministries in different roles.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Rumour has it that there are more lay people – pewsitters – than clergy in our church. But the evidence can be hard to find.
The Connect09 campaign needs all Sydney Anglicans to pray with thousands already receiving God’s word and the campaign about to ramp up.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Misquoting scripture is way too easy
Archbishop Peter Jensen reflects further on the Diocese’s financial losses and says that we must continue to obey God in our ministry funding decisions
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Why don’t we pray? Why don’t we meet for prayer more often than we do? I know that I have a ‘natural’ resistance to prayer meetings.
One of the uncomfortable things about God is the hard things he lets happen to us.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
An Australian church-planting network is in the wings after Bishop Al Stewart and four other Australian church-planting enthusiasts attended a boot camp and international church-planting conference in Seattle last month. The event was run by Acts 29, a network founded by Mark Driscoll and supported by Mars Hill Church, which provides friendship, coaching and resources to church planters.
Maroubra Surfers Church and St John’s, Maroubra were part of a group of four churches who worked with the local council to run the suburb’s first Clean Up Australia Day festival on March 1.
A Mental Health First Aid e-learning course has been taken up by an overwhelming majority of assistant ministers involved in Ministry Training & Development’s post-College Ministry Development Program.
The irony was not lost on Heathcote Anglican’s assistant minister, the Rev Tom Hargreaves as he prayed the rain would stop for their ‘Monster’ concert bushfire fundraiser. The February 21 event brought in over $8,000 towards the Archbishop’s Emergency Bushfire Appeal, which to date has raised $437,000, towards helping stricken churches.
Preaching from the gospel was the theme at this year’s third annual Stand and Deliver Conference at Parkes in the Central West of NSW.
Acclaimed photographer Ken Duncan explained his own testimony through a slideshow of his photographic works at Figtree Anglican Church last month.
The Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation will take over the Australian Technical College at Western Sydney by December, after the Rudd Government cut funding for technical colleges last year.
Research released this month by the University of Newcastle's Centre of Full Employment and Equity predicts some of Sydney Diocese's most strategic parishes will be impacted by high unemployment in the next 18 months.
This column is in favour of madness and mad people.
Dr Bryan Cowling argues that the Rudd Government's 'Education Revolution' provides a ministry opportunity for young Christian leaders.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Have you praised God lately? After an ‘outburst’ of praise on an afternoon walk, Archbishop Peter Jensen reflects that “all true prayer is a work of faith”.
Chatswood rector Stuart Robinson has been consecrated bishop of Canberra and Goulburn by Archbishop Peter Jensen, Metropolitan of NSW.
Anglicare Sydney is reviewing its data-collecting system as it prepares for a significant increase in demand as the financial crisis bites.
Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee in February.
ARV’s new state-of-the-art 238-bed facility, catering for high-level care including dementia-specific and palliative care, opened on February 12 at ARV’s Castle Hill site.
The text of Archbishop Peter Jensen's sermon at The Big Day In, the official launch of the Sydney Diocese' Connect09 campaign.
The Free Money for New Lives campaign, designed to care for the unborn and their mothers in light of the $1000 Federal Government economy boost for families has now raised $100,000, with money still coming in.
Regular readers of Southern Cross will notice regular sections – including news, features, as well as film and TV reviews - have been significantly cut back in this edition. They are victims of the current economic downturn.
The title won me, and I purchased the book: I Don’t Believe in Atheists, by Chris Hedges. I am sorry I succumbed because I think that the book is a diatribe with little to support it by way of evidence.
Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee in December.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Archbishop Peter Jensen explains why he believes the Lord is behind the Connect09 campaign.
Attracting many new community contacts, Mowbray Anglican Church successfully launched a new event in their church’s calendar in 2008: the Christmas Night Market.
Tough times require powerful life skills learned from God, often through families. But what if we’ve chosen not to learn them? We’re going to have to change our ways.
Tough times require powerful life skills learned from God, often through families. But what if we’ve chosen not to learn them? We’re going to have to change our ways.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee in November.
At its October meeting, and on the strong recommendation of the College’s Honorary Degree Committee, the Board of Directors of the Australian College of Theology awarded an honorary Doctor of Theology degree to well-known Sydney historian and New Testament scholar, Paul Barnett.
Former Premier of NSW, Bob Carr has defended the right of churches to ‘legitimate discrimination’.
Sydney Anglican and Bible Society NSW CEO Daniel Willis is defending his claim that Bible-smuggling into China is “wasteful” and unnecessarily puts Christians at risk, after his comments caused controversy in the US.
Hindu militants have offered bribes encouraging mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes and churches in the troubled state of Orissa, India.
In the wake of the execution of the Bali Bombers last month, North Sydney Bishop Glenn Davies says the death penalty is the right punishment for murder.
Raised in London’s west end, Geoff Huard never expected to end up in Sydney, Australia. Yet this stalwart of the Georges River Region had completed two decades as an archdeacon in Sydney Diocese upon his retirement in September this year.
There are some people who carry cheerfulness and hope with them wherever they go. They light up a room by entering it; they create confidence by their sheer presence. Sometimes, when things appear at their most grim, the appearance of such a person can turn everything around.
List of parishes & provisional parishes, vacant or becoming vacant as at 7 November 2008.
Sydney’s Synod has voted overwhelmingly to endorse GAFCON’s Jerusalem Declaration. Archbishop Peter Jensen said the declaration would “help bring order out of chaos”.
Sydney parish representatives heard a blunt assessment of the progress of the Mission from Dean Phillip Jensen and other leaders at two special Synod sessions.
Outreach Media were at Synod last month showcasing their creative wares, as they gear up to help parishes improve communication for Connect09 at the Create Conference this month.
Sydney Synod has overwhelmingly restated its in principle support for lay and diaconal administration of the Lord’s Supper.
Analysis by Bishop Glenn Davies
St Stephen’s, Belrose is meeting the needs of the people in its area by running a ‘Health for Tomorrow’ conference for over-55s in September.
Abortion is legal in Victoria after a 23-17 conscience vote victory in State Parliament.
List of parishes & provisional parishes, vacant or becoming vacant as at 13 October 2008.
An evangelical hero of the Great Depression shows us how to respond to the current economic crisis.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians are homeless after fleeing their native Mosul, home to the largest Christian community in Iraq, after Baghdad.
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
List of parishes & provisional parishes, vacant or becoming vacant as at 11 September 2008.
A report leaked in The Canberra Times has revealed five nominees for bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, and the list includes one current and one former Sydney Anglican.
The Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion (EFAC) in Australia announced last month that it will hold a conference which is expected to attract up to 1000 evangelical clergy and lay people from around the country.
Ngukurr’s indigenous community devoted a whole week to celebrating the 100th anniversary of the arrival by boat on the Roper River of the first missionaries to the area.
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has welcomed what it calls the “resounding” defeat of Victoria’s Physician Assisted Dying Bill 2008, lost last month with a vote of 25 to 13.
The first Connect09 Ambassadors have been trained and are ready to help encourage lay people across Sydney for the campaign which officially kicks off on February 8, 2009.
Youthworks CEO, the Rev Zac Veron has kickstarted the Joan Adams Scholarship to honour his former Sunday School teacher, who was instrumental in his conversion.
Connect09 should be a campaign characterised by a love of God and of our neighbour, and our communities need to see this love in us when we meet them.
Victoria’s Physician Assisted Dying Bill was defeated last month with a vote of 25 to 13. “The Victorian Upper House politicians who voted against this bill should be proud of the role they have played in safeguarding our State from the travesty of turning doctors from carers into killers,” said Australian Christian Lobby Victorian director, Rob Ward.
Christians continue to deny Hindu allegations of ‘paid’ conversions, as violence which started in Orissa has spread to the south-western state of Karnataka.
Dr Karin Sowada has been appointed chief executive officer of the Anglican Deaconess Institution Sydney Limited (ADISL).
Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...
List of Parishes & Provisional Parishes, vacant or becoming vacant as at 13 August 2008.
Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee in July and August.
The Rev Dr Andrew Cameron of Sydney’s Social Issues Executive has said two bills before the Senate could be the beginning of major change for the status of marriage in Australia.
Just four days before the Northern Territory’s election last month, the leaders of the state’s two main political parties addressed the local Christian community at ‘Make it Count NT’.
The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) appointed Walter Vanderpoll as the new NSW State Manager on August 4.
The son of a top Hamas leader, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has converted to Christianity and prays his family will do the same.
Church buildings are the latest target in a fresh wave of persecution facing Christian churches in Indonesia.
St Peter’s, Campbelltown celebrated the cultural diversity of its congregation in July with an international night.
Legendary evangelist John Chapman led four weekly training nights during August and early September on 'Preparing Evangelistic Talks' as part of the revamped Sutherland Shire Youth Network.