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Joel Edwards commissioned as leader of anti-poverty movement

Joel Edwards commissioned as leader of anti-poverty movement

PATTAYA, THAILAND - Leaders at the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly have commissioned Joel Edwards as the new international director of Micah Challenge. .

  • Mercy Ships Founder visiting Australia

    More and more Australians are among as many as 1500 serving each year as volunteers short-term or long-term, all paying their own way and raising financial support to do so. One of the charity's 14 national offices has operated at Caloundra, on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, for eight years. In earlier years, there was a support office in Townsville, later moving to Newcastle where one of the smaller ships, the Island Mercy¸ was based to serve the Pacific region.

  • World Evangelical Alliance opens General Assembly in Thailand

    PATTAYA, THAILAND - The world's largest evangelical body has commenced its highly-anticipated general assembly – the first in seven years – on Saturday night with invited Christian leaders from some of the most prominent Christian organisations in the world.

  • World Evangelical Alliance commences General Assembly 2008 in Pattaya

    PATTAYA, THAILAND - The world's largest evangelical body has commenced its highly-anticipated general assembly – the first in seven years – on Saturday night with invited Christian leaders from some of the most prominent Christian organisations in the world.

  • Hadleigh Remembered

    The authorities have changed the search emphasis. Whilst the use of aircraft has diminished ships, with specialised equipment, are being deployed in Buckingham Bay to search for the aircraft wreckage.

  • International Ecumenical Delegation to Visit Uganda

    The plight of people displaced by war will be the main topic of a \"Living Letters\" visit to Uganda, 27 October to 2 November. An international ecumenical delegation sent by the World Council of Churches (WCC) will discuss with representatives of churches, state and civil society about the protection of refugees, with a specific focus on sexual violence and the vulnerability of children.

  • MAF pilot missing - but not a MAF plane

    On Thursday, October 16, a MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) pilot, Hadleigh Smith (23) of Sydney was reported overdue on a delivery flight in Australia\'s Northern Territory. He was flying a Cessna GA8 Airvan aircraft, for the Marthakal Yolngu Airline, a company owned by a local Aboriginal Council on Elcho Island.

  • Harvest Wraps Up Year with Over 16,000 Decisions for Christ

    While 2008 will be remembered by more than 16,000 people as the year in which they committed or recommitted their lives to Christ through one of this year's three Harvest Crusades, the lead pastor behind the evangelistic events will also remember it as one of the hardest years in his life.

  • Little Hope in Finding MAF Missing Pilot Alive

    There has been little change in the situation since the last report. The search has been on-going but nothing further found. Realistically, the further out from the incident the more the realisation comes that there is little chance of finding Hadleigh (Smith) alive.

  • NSW prisoners pledge support for Bibles for South African prisons

    South African Pastor Willy Dengler is no stranger to prisons or detention centres. He's a regular visitor to South Africa's toughest gaols. "South Africa has the highest crime rate in the world," he said, as he spoke to thirteen inmates today at the Kariong Juvenile Detention Centre, near Gosford on the NSW Central Coast. "My challenge is to try and make a difference on the inside so that when those who have committed crimes are released, they are changed people through the power of Jesus Christ

  • Religious extremism 'one of the greatest threats', says WCC leader

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia has said that \"one of the greatest problems facing the world today is religious extremism\".

  • A Call to Prayer

    AUSAR (Australian Search and Rescue) have passed jurisdiction for the search for Hadleigh to the Northern Territory Police. Whilst still involved in planning AUSAR\'s physical presence has lessened. However, the search is on-going. Aircraft searched all day yesterday. Many local aboriginal community members are out on the water in their own boats looking and some have walked many kilometres of mangrove shoreline in search of Hadleigh. Nothing was sighted yesterday.