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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 Proserpine airport and a stone's throw from Midge Point. Opened in 2011, Well-Being Australia developed ...

Photo  -   Grease Rag Yarns As the Footplate Padre I attest this article is a railway whinge, but a fair one and I still don't know to whom I should write a letter of complaint. I set the scene as this is important, to get the full impact of the story. Some time ago my wife Delma and I were packing the 2000 model dual cab Holden Rodeo for our road trip from Tweed Heads to Laguna Quays (Whitsundays) to set up the Basil Sellers Laguna Quays Respite facility. This is the third such facility that Well-Being Australia provides for elite athletes and missionaries. The other two are in Moruya on...

Photo  -   A walk bridge  "Counting your chickens before they've hatched" is as true today as it has always been, as even explained in the Bible. The Online Idiom Dictionary explains it as "Don't make future plans on something that has not yet happened" and provides several similar idioms such as "Jumping the gun". Sometimes it takes more than one astonishing event to convince someone of truth, and this was such a situation for Ahab, King of Israel. The Bible gives the following background: King Ahab had not exactly been faithful to the God of Israel and as a result, his country had been...

Photo  -    Powerful imagery of a lighthouse The Sydney Morning Herald's published an article titled "Leaders behaving badly", which listed well publicised international and Australian examples along with anecdotal illustrations. The list includes politicians and business leaders. The article rightly quotes a number of authorities as to why leaders might behave badly. These are listed as egotistical and narcissist and on the other hand explain how temperance and prudence should be a hallmark of leadership. (www.smh.com.au) I could have pointed the writer to the Bible where a continual st...

Photo  -   An unfinished car port There have been numerous legal proceedings associated with alleged physical abuse, substance abuse and illegal betting linked to the sporting field, all presumably when rules of a particular sport have been breached in some way. Moreover these are associated with, when someone gets injured, loses unfairly or is subject to outside pressures to cheat in some way. This has given him reason to reflect that whatever happens on a sporting field, won't inevitably stay on the sporting field? For physical abuse situations, the video is utilised in many sports toda...