Thanks to technology and the Presbytery of South-West Victoria we were able to view the induction service of my friend (and predecessor here in Mount Gambier) into the charge of Heywood-Portland. If cross-border travel was not restricted a contingent of us would have ventured over in person, so this is a good substitute.
Leading groups through times when change is required involves identifying the nature of the change required. Often external changes that are applied when the change required is actually an internal one. From Peter Steinke. It is commonplace for systems to deal with both technical and adaptive problems. The latter will surely set in place high …
This is the final pre-recorded video prepared for Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church during the COVID-19 shutdown. It is for the weekend of June 21, 2020. On July 5 we’ll meet for public worship, in a service that will be shared between two spaces in our building and live-streamed online. The live stream will remain on …
That which is often portrayed as a love of freedom is really an adoration of autonomy. Freedom builds communities because it can only operate where there is trust. Autonomy fragments communities because it must view others as either threats to autonomy or the means to expressing it. In the Gospel there is freedom. This is …
