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Photo - Tronson du Coudray’s Art - AIS Canoe Unit Brian Hopley This is important to consider. Peter Sherlock some time ago published in The Conversation on church attendance at Christmas remains a contentious issue. He cited huge public events such as Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight and the similar gala occasions in Sydney where mystery galvanises Australians into a fresh world of wonder and Christian identification. He pondered on the increased numbers of people who attend local churches at Christmas and Easter and in spite of all this, he asks whether Christmas has been surrendered t...

Photo  -  Josh Woods and Russell Modlin pray over Mark and Delma Tronson – 2020 young writer conference A highly gifted sports missioner Nelson Cook who established Coaches of Influence (COIN) 40 years ago in Los Angeles USA writes a monthly letter to the many coaches at professional, college and high school levels and the current correspondence touches the spot. It has been my privilege since 1984 to have been hosted innumerable times by Nelson Cook in my years in sport ministry, the most recent was in 2009 where I addressed coaches over breakfasts, lunches and dinners. This is another ...

Photo  -  Lone Pine Throughout 2020 we heard on news casts the accusations and military determinations against specific current and former SAS members. These are those ion the front line in the hardest of situations for any military person.  So why write on War Graves, Australians would have to be deaf not have heard the drama associated with the war crimes allegations of Special Forces and the back lash of their families. Why would anyone bother joining our military? We surely recall Russell Crow's 'The Water Diviner'. The story line is about a father, an Australian farmer, who lost his ...

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...

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 ar...