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december 2004
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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.
Nick Hadges is a busy man. An apprentice with the Ministry Training Strategy, part of his week is spent as a paid youth worker at St David’s, Arncliffe. The motorbike riding, Greek-born pastor also teaches scripture in several local high schools.
Mr Hadges, 43, wants to minister to young people for the rest of his life. That’s why he is keen on a move to allow people like him to become ordained as deacons without the expectation that he will give up youth work one day to become a priest.
A mission field of 28,000 for one person is a difficult ratio in anyone’s language. It is even more difficult when that language is Mandarin.
Hamish Godbolt, 20, says a ministry training scholarship has meant the difference between completing his studies at the Anglican Youthworks college and dropping out.
My vision is often filled with all the negatives and I fail to see the harvest. Let us pray that the Lord will help us to see our country as he sees our country.
Ever since I have been a Christian I have had a heart for evangelism, and for years had a vision for women’s ministry. Three others have had this position before me. Every time someone else got the job I said, “Hey Lord, what about me?!” Finally the job became vacant and I applied. The minister said “What! How old are you Nola?” I said, “ What’s that got to do with it?” He said, “ I’ll talk to my wife and see what she says.” He did! His wife said, “I told you that years ago.”
Canon Kuan, a guest of the Sydney Synod in October, said the Diocese of Singapore was carved up in the early seventies and jokingly accused Western missionaries of causing the burden.
“Let me explain by blaming everything on English people. The English came to Asia 200 years ago and left behind the Anglican Church,” he said. “Because we Singaporeans were not paying careful attention when the ecclesiastical boundaries were drawn, we ended up with everything that was left on the plate.”
Stuart interviews Dr Graham A. Cole, department of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Parishes on the decline need to reinvent themselves; parishes that are stable need to reform and parishes that are growing need the resources.
Ex-missionary to Pakistan, the Rev Michael Raiter, has been appointed Principal of the Bible College of Victoria.
The Rector of Norfolk Island is urging his community to turn back to God after two brutal killings.
Clergy will receive a wage increase of 6.3 per cent next year – almost double the pay rise they received in 2004.
Hamish Godbolt, 20, says a ministry training scholarship has meant the difference between completing his studies at the Anglican Youthworks college and dropping out.
The national Church has admitted it has ‘no strategies’ to tackle chronic decline in church attendance, despite two years of talks.
Thomas Keneally called it a ‘silly book’ – but wished he had written it.
It’s the old fashioned waterhole. A bulwark for the workers, a slice of rough and ready Aussie culture. With its pokies, meat tray raffles and smoke-filled haze, the Victoria hotel in Annandale fits the bill.
There would be no “witch hunt” for Druids, the Anglican Bishop of Pennsylvania declared following revelations that two of his clergy were active in the occult.
Enjoying a hot meal this Christmas has just been made easier for Sydney’s poor.