New Directions is the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland. After a little break pdf files of August/September 2010 issue have been posted on the PCQ website. There’s a comprehensive report on the General Assembly (state church annual meeting) in addition to the usual pieces on local congregations, denominational camps and conferences, and news …
From the keyboard of Robert Benn, moderator of the 2007 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and received through the PresENews email network: Dear friends, On October 17th, this year, in Rome, Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint, is to be “canonized”. Of course we are interested in this, because some of our tax …
I would maintain that churches in my denomination don’t transition from one pastoral leader to another with consistent excellence and purpose. The overwhelming majority of our congregations do not have the resources to support two men in a transition, so congregations endure a time without a minister/teaching elder/pastor, which is called a vacancy. Even in …
Though I haven’t mentioned it for a while the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales magazine ‘The Pulse’ continues to be posted online each month. The September 2010 issue has a feature article on David Jones, the incoming Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. you can read about David, his …
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