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Promoting change through Pacific prayers

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:18:23 +0000

The Pray for Our Pacific campaign from 3–11 September is encouraging Australian faith communities to host a special service or event to highlight the region’s ongoing challenges of climate change and environmental damage. Pacific Island nations, which are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, face a range of environmental threats such as cyclones, ...

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From the kitchen to the pulpit

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:33 +0000

Pacific Island women are challenging a culture which excludes them from leadership in church and society. Dianne Jensen talks to education advocate Lisa Meo. Fijian-Australian Lisa Meo has been knocking on the doors of the male-dominated Pacific Island churches for a long time. The retired educator and academic has been a leading voice in challenging ...

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The truth shall set you free

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 06:45:07 +0000

Multicultural advocate Lesley Bryant talks to Dianne Jensen about her passion for building trust in fractured communities. When Lesley Bryant first learned about her Samoan great-grandmother, it seemed like a romantic addendum to an ordinary family history. Years later, she came to understand how the legacy of Queensland’s dark history of indentured South Sea Islander ...

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Climate change: a spiritual crisis

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 04 May 2015 22:00:38 +0000

Climate change isn’t just an issue of science and economics, it is also a spiritual crisis for people in the Pacific who are most affected. Cath Taylor explores. Can God fix climate change? It’s the question on the lips of many within Pacific churches—this month more than ever in the wake of one of the ...

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Courageous faith paves the way

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:11:16 +0000

We interviewed Betty about her life and faith on Friday 27 June and sadly advise that since this article was written and went to print Betty has passed away. We have been informed that Betty did have the opportunity to read the article before her passing. She died on Wednesday 6 August 2014 after a short illness. ...

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