Pete Rollins is travelling all the way from Northern Ireland to be a one of four Keynote Speakers appearing at the National Christian Youth Convention in January 2007. Delegates, volunteers and participants will have the opportunity to engage with Pete as he speaks at the programmed evening rallies, bible study features and highlighted electives throughout the convention week. On his ...

ACCORDING TO Time Magazine, Dan Brown is one of the 100 most influential people of all time. His novel, The Da Vinci Code, has sold 40 million copies and the BBC claims it is the best selling novel ever and none less than Tom Hanks will star in the Ron Howard film version being released worldwide on May 19, 2006. ...

SEVERAL HUNDRED people took the long trek west of Hobart to the Styx Valley, an area of primal forest featuring majestic gum trees that were old when Captain Cook sailed up Australia’s eastern coast and for several years the focal point in the forestry debate in Tasmania. Those making this journey included church goers, forest workers and conservationists. They gathered ...

A REPORT proposing major changes in non-ordained specified ministries will be one of the big items on the agenda for the 11th Assembly when it meets in Brisbane in July. The report from the Specified Ministries Task Group appointed after the 2003 Assembly is titled From time to time, and place to place, a phrase from Paragraph 14 of the ...

The Aussie Bible (Well, bits of it anyway) Re-told and presented by Kel Richards DVD Divine Entertainment RRP $25.95 A few years ago I took a youth group on a chalk chase where we nearly got into a street fight with some older boys who were wandering the streets. That night it so happened that devotions were on some of ...

The National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) 2007 will be in Perth, Western Australia, 3 – 9 January 2007. The theme is Agents of Change and registration is open to all young people between the ages of 16 and 30 as of 3 January 2007. It is about transformation – inner and outer. What are the agents that change us, and ...

Fourteen thousand eager individuals wait for the band to begin playing. Chanting, clapping, cheering, the stage lights dim, the crowd jump to their feet and roar as the bright lights flash on. You thought the U2 tour had been cancelled? Which band could possibly stir up this much excitement? It’s the Newsboys. They have been on the cover of Rolling ...

A kaleidoscope of scenes whirls through my memory – moments, places, people – locked in a cell for four hours with two life sentence prisoners, sitting on concrete steps in intimate conversation with one woman while the things of earth grew strangely dim around us. Moments of prayer that have changed a woman’s anger into tears of healing, or have ...

North Queensland Presbytery Minister Rev Bruce Cornish reports that while there has been significant damage to property and crops in the area between Cairns and Tully and up on to the Atherton Tablelands, no major damage to Uniting Church buildings and ministers and their families are safe and well.. There has been the most damage between about Fishery Falls in ...

My brothers and sisters in Christ, In the aftermath of Cyclone Larry, I feel it is important to communicate with our people regarding the situation in North Queensland. You will be well aware through extensive media reports that the cyclone has caused widespread devastation of property and crops. I have this morning spoken with Glen Loutitt, our minister in Innisfail, ...