Our suffering and sadness, well navigated, will cause us to look inward, but our gaze should not, must not remain there. Instead, acknowledging the emptiness, loss and confusion within, and convicted of our inability to endure suffering, we look to Jesus, who came and endured the true suffering of which ours is but the echo. …
This is an informal meeting of a group of people who believe the Presbyterian Church of Australia as a whole should have a common vision to plant and grow healthy churches. An encouraging time of sharing news about God’s blessings and exchanging ideas about how to respond to God’s challenges most wisely.
Here’s a photo of them hard at work. Travel into Sydney was a bit tricky for some. So far we’ve spent some time thinking about how to use our capital resources to enlarge our denomination’s vision for cross-cultural work. Let’s not be committed to maintenance but expansion and growth.
The Presbyterian church of Australia is a federation of six state bodies. Functionally, this means the national body oversees areas of responsibility ceded to it by the regions, the sort of activities that make sense to have national cooperation and/or standards. While the national church meets every three years, it charges a number of committees …
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