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Share a Yarn ambassadors 2021
14 athletes across 11 different sports have been selected as ambassadors for this year’s Share a Yarn Program. As part of the program, First Nations and non-Indigenous athletes are chosen as ambassadors to undertake cultural training and activities side-by-side, supporting each other to foster reconciliation and improve cultural competency within their own sports.
Australian Matildas football representative Kyah Simon recalls playing at the 2015 FIFA World Cup and locating her family in the stands by looking for the Aboriginal flag.
Netballer Gabrielle Coffey recalls accompanying her mother, a nurse, across the red dirt desert roads to the remote Aboriginal communities around Alice Springs to teach basic health prevention.
Australian Institute of Sport Share a Yarn ambassadors build Indigenous cultural understanding
By The Ticket and ABC sport reporter Tracey Holmes
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MarMarch 2021 at 2:54am
A 2021 Share a Yarn ambassador, Australian softballer Janice Blackman said gifting her team mates with an Indigenous jersey was an emotional experience.
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A national softballer and three-time Paralympic track-and-field athlete are among 14 athletes to be named as the Australian Institute of Sport s 2021 Share a Yarn ambassadors.
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Tokyo-bound Olympian Janice Blackman says her team mates want to learn about Indigenous culture
Non-Indigenous Paralympian Brad Scott says the experience has been eye-opening
Photo - Rev Peter Nelson, ret AIS Chaplain, Well-Being Australian Board Member
This is my 44th year in Christian ministry and it s remarkable to look back and rejoice in what the Lord has done in one s life s ministry. In the midst of this have been some amazing people who have been mentors.
This is a tribute to one of these, the late Reverend Roger Reid. Roger loved Delma and me in our early years in Christian ministry and it was his wisdom that saw the development and growth of the sports ministry I was blessed tgo initiate and found.
Reverend Roger Reid was the foundation Chairman of the Sports and Leisure Ministry. Five years ago Roger documented for the first time, why in 1982, the InterChurch Trade and Industry Mission (ITIM) and Heads of Churches supported me, a young Baptist minister, vision for ministry into professional sport.
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).
Matildas star Katrina Gorry opens up about her eating disorder and using pregnancy to heal
By Samantha Lewis
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FebFebruary 2021 at 1:03pm
Matildas midfielder Katrina Gorry says as she got older she started to identify her struggle with body image issues and nutrition.
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Katrina Gorry doesn t quite know how or when it started.
There wasn t a single moment a passing comment from someone she trusted, a photo of herself she didn t like that flipped a switch in her head, making her care more about numbers on the bathroom scale or the nutrition panels on food containers than how she felt within herself.