Bionic ears and eyes – science fiction is now fact
Two television shows of the seventies \'The \'Six Million Dollar Man\' and \'The Bionic Woman\', where the hero and heroine respectively attained super powers from the insertion of electronic bits and pieces into their bodies. .
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Steve Saint seriously injured testing missionary technology
Steve Saint, the 61-year-old son of martyred MAF missionary, Nate Saint, has been seriously injured in Gainesville, Florida, while testing new missionary technology.
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Women on the land "feature" is a reminder of a mother's diary farming experiences
A recent article "Growing numbers show women are at home on the range" by Sarffron Howden in the Sydney Morning Herald celebrated NSW Farmers Association\'s first female president, Fiona Simson.
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Sport ministry experience is helpful - London Calling No.20 - 5 weeks to the Olympics
Many of those chaplains serving in the London Olympic Games Village and those ministering to Olympic athletes through other equally advantageous methodologies are people with many years of sports ministry experience.
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More and more Australian pensioners are serving in overseas missions as volunteers – pensions unaffected
A recent article in news.com titled "Offshore retirement makes dollar go a long way" stated that about 75,000 Australians are living abroad are sent Federal Government payments in 2011, including about 65,000 pensioners but that most of these people are migrants now living in their countries of origin.
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Bear Grylls backs appeal for West Africa
The food crisis has become so critical in West Africa that some families are being forced to survive on leaves, Tearfund has warned.
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Teachers are at the coal face on many counts
The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that a serious teacher shortage is on the nation\'s doorstep with so many teachers in the realm of retirement age. It reported that in 2012 in NSW alone that more than 900 new teachers took up permanent positions at public schools.
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Samaritan's Purse to boost maternal health in Uganda
Samaritan\'s Purse has launched a new health project in Uganda to raise the life expectancy of children under five and their mothers.
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Footplate Padre tells the story of a fireman engaging Middle Creek bridge after a burst air-hose
Footplate Padre Mark Tronson explained that changing an air hose has always been part of the fireman\'s responsibilities. The train\'s brakes are operated by compressed air which are connected throughout the train with air hoses. The driver usually knows when an air hose has broken. The compressed air escapes through the hole in the air hose, thus slamming on the brakes. The dash board gauge drops to zero air pressure.
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Scientific evidence supports common sense in protecting the health of our children.
Parents are confronted with conflicting information about their children\'s health and Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson and his wife Delma of 35 years knows something of this as he has raised four children and now has grandchildren.
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Basketballers for Christ - London calling No.19 – six weeks to the Olympics
Basketball is one of the major Olympic sports – men and women – with the US team dominating it gives everyone else a measuring stick by which they can gauge as to how well they can perform against the world\'s best.
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"Antipodean whitewash" - Baptist World Alliance ignores Australia in their team to dialogue with world Pentecostal representatives
Baptist World Alliance (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam has named the team that is to represent the BWA in the international Baptist-Pentecostal dialogue that begins in Quito, Ecuador, August this year, without any Australian representative.
