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Perri Pyle, Archivist and Librarian at the Arizona Historical Society, was a SALALM conference scholarship awardee in 2018. Amanda Moreno caught up with Perri in February 2022 to learn about the impact of the scholarship on her career. Did you know about SALALM before you applied for the scholarship? My MA history advisor, who heard … Continued

I am a historian of early modern Asia. My work is concerned broadly with the transnational circulation of ideas, people, practices and commodities across East and Southeast Asia. My first book, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan, was published in 2014 and received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History from the American Historical Association, the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2015 Humanities Book Prize, the Forum on European Expansio...

Photo -  Midge Point Bible Study group celebrates Delma Tronson’s 68th birthday at the Point Tavern Three respite facilities for missionaries, home mission, chaplains, pastors, church professional personnel fall within the mission orbit of Well-Being Australia. The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite Aldinga Beach Retreat – 1 hour south of Adelaide Greens Beach, Bass Straight, TAS These mission respite facilities has provided many mission families / couples and chaplains - a much deserved re...

Saturday 22nd May. Enjoy delicious authentic food and hear from Anita Crown about what God is doing in Thailand and how you can be involved. All money raised from donations will go towards Global Interactions work in Thailand. Register your details and any dietary requirements by Monday 17th May through Eventbrite If you have any questions please contact Adele Shim - missions@neb.org.au. This will be a covid safe event with a covid safe plan. Please refrain from attending if you have any col...

Photo -  Midge Point Bible Study group celebrates Delma Tronson’s 68th birthday at the Point Tavern Three respite facilities for missionaries, home mission, chaplains, pastors, church professional personnel fall within the mission orbit of Well-Being Australia. The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite Aldinga Beach Retreat – 1 hour south of Adelaide Greens Beach, Bass Straight, TAS These mission respite facilities has provided many mission families / couples and chaplains - a much deserved re...

Audrey Bennett is a graphic design scholar who studies cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary design that make use of images that permeate global culture and impact the way we think and behave. In her book, Engendering Interaction with Images, she argues that engendering user interaction with images improves their communicative effectiveness by enabling them to convey meanings effectively across cultures. Bennett writes: “No longer passive spectators of images, these days we are more likely to...

Photo  -    Midge Point Beach through the trees Since 2011 the Laguna Quays Respite facility on the Whitsundays mainland has been available to missionaries and ministers (pastors) for respite and this year, eight years later a second facility was established at Aldinga Beach a little south of Adelaide. Mr Basil Sellers AM has sponsored this second facility opened in 2016 which is designated for triage missionary respite. August 2013 Basil Sellers visited Laguna Quays Respite and from that ...

Photo - Laguna Quays Respite – Whitsundays Within the orbit of Well-Being Australia are three respite facilities for missionaries, home mission, chaplains, pastors, church professional personnel… The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite Aldinga Beach Retreat – 1 hour south of Adelaide Greens Beach, Bass Straight, TAS These mission respite facilities has provided many mission families / couples and chaplains - a much deserved rest and recuperation. This is a two 2 min video is of the Whitsun...

The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite coordinated by Well-Being Australia for missions is celebrating 10 years of ministry. The Whitsundays mission respite facility, opened 10 years ago in 2011, has provided many mission families / couples and chaplains - a much deserved rest and recuperation. This two 2 min video is of its ministry for missionaries, home missions, church full time personnel is remarkable. Laguna Quays Respite The respite cottage is situated a fifteen minute drive south of Pros...