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 Whitsundays Laguna Quays respite.
Photo - Green’s Beach Respite
Aldinga Beach Retreat
Aldinga Beach Retreat is a one hour south from Adelaide airport and coordinated by MissionsInterlink, opened in November 2016, funded by Mr Basil Sellers AM who visited the Laguna Quays Respite in 2014-15. Basil asked me to send him in Sydney four mission executives toward a triage facility (more than rest).
Photo - Fred and Carol Schaeffer and family
Fred Schaeffer writes - My hard drinking, shrewd father, thrust me into my own business at age nine as a paperboy in the violent streets of Chicago. I was soon immersed into a neighbourhood gang and began mastering fighting and gambling. Fortunately, I was plucked from the street scene by responding to Christ. Jesus, the truth, led me out of the ghetto.
My “friends” wondered how I could make more money working than they could stealing and still attract a girlfriend, more lovely and loving than theirs. I married Carol 57 years ago, studied business, worked in advertising and then as a marketing manager. God blessed us with the birth of our son, Fred, and our daughter, Kysa.
And what is this experience that most churches encounter.
In a word, fed up ! (two words sorry).
The facts are pretty clear and the test is at grass roots level. It relates to men. These fellows have grown up in the life of the local church. They became a Christian during their teenage years. Well versed in the Word. A handsome giver to the finances and mission needs. More than likely a bit of a leader, well at least he s always around and he s solid.
One day he walked. He was fed up – there was no typical internal church dispute going on, he had no intention of moving church, but after what seemed a life time in a rut of religion he needed out .
Photo - 1938 tree felled by my father, Seymour Tronson, a Crediton Qld, pioneer bushman
Australia is known far and wide by the voice of their bushmen. My father in the 30s on his dairy far, his voice carried and the dairy herd knew it.
Our young writer program now in its 11th year says that Christian Today provides young people their own Voice!
There are many ideas behind a Voice. Actors, by necessity, acquire the skills associated with creating a different voice for the specific role in the film or the repertory production.
Politicians when giving a major speech more than often raise their voice as do corporate leaders and preachers. Athletes after a match are often struggling for breath and we don t hear their usual voice , as say when at home.
WWII steam Alice Springs
General Douglas MacArthur arrival in Australia began with his railway journey - the brief back-story is explaining the three different rail gauges (widths between the tracks) used in Australia.
In the 1940s, different states used one or more of three different gauges for a variety of political, economic and historical reasons. South Australia used all three. They were narrow gauge (3ft 6ins or 1067 mm), broad gauge (5 3 or 1600 mm) and standard gauge (4 8.5 or 1435 mm).
Since the 1990s, most of the long distance trains have been converted to standard gauge, so passengers can now traverse the country more conveniently. But this isn t universal, and there are still some areas where the gauges vary, for one practical reason or another.