Along with many other Australian Presbyterian churches, mgpc prayed for God’s blessing on the inaugural service of the third Presbyterian church in the Darwin region, Palmerston Presbyterian. Rob Duncanson provides the following short report: THANK YOU to everyone who prayed for us today. We had received messages assuring us of prayer support from every State …

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My review copy of Center Church should be waiting for me when I return home from Zimbabwe. I look forward to reading Tim Keller’s exploration of doing Gospel centered ministry in cities and beyond. Keller writes of the reasons for writing the book at the Redeemer City To City blog. Here’s the first and last …

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Over the next month mgpc are supporting two different trips, with similar objectives but in very different locations. Here’s the piece I wrote for the September edition of our monthly church newsletter. Africa. I know that Africa holds a special place in the memories of many of our longer term members here. I’ve been told …

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One aspect of having been around for a while is watching the passing trends of Church life. In the eighties the notion of large attractional churches was vaunted, now smaller groups are being commended. The capacity to offer a broad spread of ministry activity and life of a larger church is now seen as possibly …

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