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 visit he requested four missionary executives meet with him in Sydney to discuss triage respite.
The rest is history. Dr Omar Djoeandy (SIM), Reverend Canon Malcolm Richards (CMS), Reverend Ken Clendinning (Global Interaction) and Reverend Viv Grice (Clergy and Missionary burn out) met with Basil Sellers. Omar took the proposal to Mission-Interlink who endorsed it at their October with a formal set of parameters and personnel based at Aldinga Beach.
Photo - State-Borders’ Business - art - Tronson du Coudray
Tronson du Coudray’s art work for the Tuesday 9 March Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce breakfast ‘business card drawer’ was titled ‘State-Borders’ Business’.
This art image is a reflection of numerous lorries lining up at any State Border one might wish to name when borders are slammed shut whenever one or two Covid 19 is announced.
Bang – Shut – Business can go ….. No matter how much damage a State might do to its own business community let alone national commerce – shut they are.
The consequences are meaningless. The people are told they are at risk. That one Covid 19 case will decimate their family, their community, their livelihoods – yet the case in Melbourne saw the entire State closed including Bairnsdale in the north east and Mildura on the western NSW border. Uproar was the outcome.
There are now four ‘mission’ writers on the Press Service International team being published in Christian Today.
Last year the CT editor asked me to add to the quiver of young writer articles, a fresh genre, Mission articles.
Since then, the mission writing team has grown to four – all published in Christian Today.
The mission writing team
Ben Campbell
Ben Campbell from Sydney is the CEO of Africa Enterprise. He or a team member provides fortnightly articles with photographs mission articles. These are very well received and have a wide distribution throughout the Africa Enterprise mission situations around the world.
Photo - Morning sunrise is like a fresh start, like conversion to Jesus Christ
Any number of my readers have rejoiced in the Lord to have been directly or indirectly involved in witnessing quite a number of young people acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, in other words they have become Christians, followers of Jesus.
They have made these very personal decisions from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and speak of how the Lord guided them individually through this or that situation whereby they in effect, fell at the foot of the Cross seeking forgiveness of sin and opening a whole new realm into their lives.
Photo - Kelly Thompson a new sport writer, Melbourne
The Australian young writers program was initiated way back in 2009 when Christian Today editor David Chang and Australian cricket chaplain Dr Mark Tronson put their heads together.
In 2008 Mark Tronson was invited by then editor Szelang Chan to commence a daily column and a year later new editor David Chang suggested adding a daily sport article. Too much, but five young people writing sport was adopted.
This worked so well, that by the end of 2009 other young people had joined the Christian Today young writer team writing on a broad spectrum of subjects. Today there are 110 young writers.