Operation Christmas Child follow-up program leads to four new churches in Fiji
Four new churches have been started on the Fijian Island of Vanua Levu, as a direct result of The Greatest Journey, the discipleship program that follows Operation Christmas Child. .
-
Branson highlights a truth in business and theology
Business tycoon billionaire Sir Richard Branson recently speaking at a University of Queensland Business School lunch told a room full of MBAs, undergraduates and high schoolers not to waste money on business degrees.
-
Five pointers on making your skills aware to your employer, has similarities to one to one evangelism
In a recent News.com article by Debra Killalea titled "Risky Business: Why playing it safe is killing your career" has remarkable similarities in the way on which one to one evangelism might be being hampered.
-
Ford Falcon and its genre had little to do with Ford pulling up stumps
A great deal been written and said about the Australian Ford company's strategy of maintaining the Ford Falcon and its genre over the past fifteen years and not establishing a vibrant export market for it, as say opposed to Holden's Commodore export schedules.
-
2013 is the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary's Mount Everest remarkable achievement
The Sydney Morning Herald\'s Nick Galvin recently noted the diamond anniversary (60) of that first ascent to Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary (later Sir Edmund) is especially poignant following the death of the last surviving direct member of the 1953 expedition – Hillary\'s lifelong friend, George Lowe – earlier in the year.
-
The ideal of a furniture salvage hunt interests us all and so too finding those special verses of Scripture
One of our wider family members is an artisan with most things, including working with fine timbers and has produced for family members a range of fine furniture from lounge suits to single chairs to stools to coffee tables, whatever.
-
Is Turkey being presented as an example of slow but sure Islamisation of a fiercely secular State?
Many in Turkey have become alarmed with the latest directive which to a host of Turks represents another nail in the coffin of a free Turkey – that of a slow death - to that of an Islamised Turkey – this is the banning of red and pink lipsticks on Air Turkey\'s Airline hostesses
-
International Christian young writer for Christian Today, China's Oscar and Heyley Duan are honing their skills
Oscar and Heyley Duan are the faces of this new wave of highly educated young people coming into Australia and making an enormous contribution to the nation as a whole, and in this specific situation, to Christian ministry through Oscar's monthly article in Christian Today, as a young writer.
-
Nelson Cook sends every day family humour to sport coaches
Nelson Cook who established Coaches of Influence 25 years ago in LA USA writes a monthly letter to the many coaches at professional, college and high school levels and the current correspondence touches the spot.
-
Australia's indigenous animals and birds have a knack of visiting and becoming comfortable
A recent AdelaideNow.com news article detailed how a Koala on a very hot day, climbed the garden and pool fence, had it's fill of water being so hot, and then took its rest under the jetty on the cool rocks all afternoon, moreover with the householders doing their own things. (www.adelaidenow.com.au)
-
Footplate Padre tells the story of railway nicknames and how they stick
The Footplate Padre has written sixteen books on railways, more specifically, train driver\'s anecdotes, and these books served a niche market in the 1980\'s and 1990\'s, ranging from titles such as "Driving Trains the Australian Way", "Old Stories Steamy," "Railway Chronicles" and "Train Driver\'s Stories" to list four of them.
-
Achievements in Australian science – a mid-year update
I can\'t believe it is June already, and time to briefly review some recent awards for innovative Australian science. There have been successes from Australians from a variety of different areas of science that I would like to highlight in this article.
