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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...

Every experienced minister knows that when they relocate to a fresh congregation – you start from scratch. A few days after Australias new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull took office The Age by Michael Gordon ran a fascinating piece on the 10 Commandments for the new PM and these ten had such alliances to a fresh Christian minister coming to a new pastorate that I thought it provident to list them. There is an old saying that any new Minister to a fresh pastorate has whats referred to as a h...

Railway perway – is critical to railway running. It is the start and finish of railway success. A recent News.com article gave a fresh voice to the public alarm when so many rail lines get closed at weekends and even surprisingly in peak hour time slots for track maintenance. The article cites complaints from various Sydney politicians where so many complaints have come into their offices regarding closed lines for maintenance andf then see no maintenance crews. These would be rail passenger...

Photo - 2020 Australian Basil Sellers Award – Cartia Moore from the Sunshine Coast Press Service International which coordinates the young writer ministry in conjunction with Christian Today is calling for young people keen to explore their writing skills with Comment pieces published to an international audience. 18-30 years is the age bracket. Each young writer has their own editor to help them through the process. The young people write once every 5 weeks  -  it is very simple, there ar...

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...

Photo  -  Whitsundays a honeymoon delight We had someone from New Zealand visiting and it was the first time they had seen ‘Say Yes to the Dress’  -  like my wife she became an avid viewer of ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ – in their view every girl’s dreams is wearing the wedding dress. Is there a social conspiracy with all this. A recent Huffington Post article on Australian marriage statistics gave rise to me pondering whether marriage is in many cases, conspiratorial. Australians ...

Photo - Empty tomb ANZAC tourism in Israel has always been massive. My wife Delma and I have led two Israel (Holy Land) tours with InnerFaith Travel. Each year I write an article on tourism to the Holy Land and this year is of particular interest with ANZAC Israel on the agenda. By leading Holy Land tours to Israel therefore I feel I have a close association with this type of tourism. There are innumerable ANZAC sites in Israel and many of these are associated with the Light Horse. The securin...

Photo  -  Wild Animals, Midge Point – the Postie will get through How is this for a story  -  40 years late. A recent News.com article told the story of how the Viewbank Tennis Club were astonished to find a box delivered by Australia Post of sew-on patches, believed to have been ordered in the mid-1970s. The reason given by Australia Post: "The box apparently fell behind some machinery at an Australia Post sorting centre, only to be discovered decades later as staff prepared to move." ...

Jobs disappear, different jobs are created – how safe are these jobs. The Sydney Morning Herald recently ran this story. It lists a wide variety of occupations that are under threat and a host that are relativity secure. The article cites Professor Roy Green, Dean of the University of Technology Sydney business school, who says many Australian jobs are being off-shored, automated and devalued by low-cost competition. "We are going to see some very big changes," Green says. "Obviously, as job...

Photo  -  NZ Invercarhil – perhaps the Minister’s van  Penalty rates as a massive issue having gone through Covid 19 – Ministers have a heavy duty on Sundays. A recent article in The Conversation discussed the claim that restaurants were closing on Sundays due to the huge 200% mark-up of penalty rates in employing people. The claim was made on Q&A 5 years ago by then Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (now the treasurer). This was the quote: "Now, what the Productivity Commission ha...