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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 miss...

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 op...

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 sp...

Walter Chalmers Smith 1824-1908 penned the famous hymn "Immortal Invisible, God only wise" but few know that his second stanza's first two words were quoted by Adolf Hitler in his description of the game of cricket. Very few people know that Adolph Hitler played cricket when recuperating from injury at the end of WWI (there were British POWs nearby). He was recuperating from being gassed and would walk across the the British POW camp and watch the cricket matches. Having done this for some time, he challenged the Brits to a game and gave cricket the insightful motto: (Ohne Hast, ohne Rast) - ...

Photo  -  Basil Sellers and John Hackwell cutting the ribbon at the opening of the Basil Sellers Art Centre in Moruya 2002 This is no longer a surprise – some years ago the Sydney Morning Herald reported that public schools did better than private school students in the HSC.  Even in my own experience and as a parent of now four adult children and a grand parent, a life time of interest in education and policy matters, the overwhelming input into a child's education are the parents. This has been borne out by numerous educational responses from Christian schools, Catholic schools and th...