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Thousands of Fijian families receives Bibles, after being introduced to Jesus through Operation Christmas Child

Bible League International is fulfilling its role as a strategic Christian service organization by supplying almost two thousand Bibles to Hindi speaking churches in Fiji. .

  • Three months have passed since Peter Roebuck died and the continuing interest raises issues for us all

    Every now and again, a talented individual will make a huge contribution to his or her craft or profession. Cricket writer Peter Roebuck 55, was such a person. He raised sports journalism to a higher level with his knowledge of cricket (as player and analyst), with his fantastic communication skills, with his quick wit and most of all with his immense intelligence.

  • Footplate Padre overviews of 100 years of Rail

    The Footplate Padre Mark Tronson maintains that February 2012 in celebrating the business start a new year, it might be a good idea to consider the past 100 years of Australian railway development. In a sense 1917 proved to be a pivotal year for the railways, at least in New South Wales and its ramifications affected the entire rail network across the nation.

  • The art of language

    The 'art of language' is the tool of authors, speech-writers, playwrights and writers of TV and film scripts. It is the reason we remember some 'classics' and yet others fall by the wayside. This 'art', whether written or spoken, is in reality very important as language conveys more than words of clarity, as it can also convey sentiment and emotion.

  • Sky news presenter Leigh Hatcher returns to Open House on Sunday nights

    Australia's Sunday night radio program Open House kicks off its 2012 season this Sunday night, February 5th with a compelling interview, in the lead up to the 3rd anniversary of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires.

  • The price of freedom - a review of the Berlin Wall

    Last month Germans commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall being built. The territory of the GDR (German Democratic Republic, commonly known as East Germany) that was formed as part of the Ponstam agreement after World War II, where the defeated Germany was divided between the USSR and the democratic West, included what was previously Prussia.

  • Sea change can mean coastal and affordable

    It takes more than eight times the average annual income to buy an average Sydney home, according to a report in a recent Sydney Morning Herald article. In relative terms, this is up from 5.6 times in 2001.

  • Sportsmen have 10 vital years

    Top athletes have a limited career. They may earn more money while they are very young than they will for the rest of their working life. However, to some, it is like a windfall – it comes all at once, 40 years' worth of professional work compressed into ten - and they do not have the experience to manage it.

  • Australia's remarkable Vegemite

    Mark Tronson, the chairman of Well-Being Australia, has a wicked sense of humour. When he travels on mission work to United States, he always takes small jars of Vegemite as gifts for his hosts.

  • Paranoid Pop

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson says that Paranoid Pop is the "fun and games name" his son gives whenever he expresses some caution over a seemingly everyday decision.

  • A just weight and balance are the Lord's

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson says that 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.

  • Maximising the value of discount air-fares

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson says that he and his wife travel a great deal in their missionary endeavours and one way to save a few dollars here and there is fly light with only carry-on luggage, but if they need to have a larger bag, then they only take one booked-in baggage item between the two of them.