Tomorrow I’ll post the Ministry And Mission 2012 document and draft budget that Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church adopted last Sunday. One of the perennial questions we get each year is why our budget is always in deficit. It’s because we plan it that way. We do hold some invested funds, and that’s because folk either …

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I wrote this article for publication in Mount Gambier’s local paper, The Border Watch last Friday. Recently our town council has purchased the derelict site of our former hospital, now vacant for some fifteen years. Tours around the grounds were recently conducted to enable locals to refamiliarise themselves with the precinct. Having only lived in …

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Here’s a folky rendition of O Little Town Of Bethlehem with music by Alex Mejias from High Street Hymns’ Christmas album Love Shall Be Our Token. Most of the other tracks on this album feature traditional tunes, but I like this reworking. Notice how the movements in the melody reflect the thematic flow of the …

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