Education Week Today we welcome parents and students from Katoomba Public School to our 10.30am service to celebrate Education Week. This year we’ll not only be showcasing some of the students great talents but also recognising the Local Heroes who teach our children and prepare them for life. Local Hero’s tend not to get much…
The Greater Cause
Last week I visited the School of Ancient languages at Macquarie Uni, it was a heady time and I met some fascinating people. One guy mentioned how, for the fun of it, he’d spent a summer holiday studying Arcadian (an ancient language). Another guy who was a specialist in mediaeval latin, got very excited about…
Comfort Zone
I’ve just spent a week doing an intensive greek language refresher course. The New Testament is a treasure chest of teaching on the wonders of our Lord and to be able to read it in the original language brings a colour to its narrative that is an enormous help in teaching and preaching. After thirty…
Change of Service Times Trial
This week the PPP team met with me to discuss the feedback received regarding the proposed trial of changing service times and developing the early service to enable it to be more accessible to people. In the light of all the responses we considered a wide range of options, including the status quo, and I’m…
KidzArtz 2015 -Day one
KidzArtz got off to a great start this morning, with 40 underage pirates having aboard ship for a great, accompanied by about 30 helpers. The church has been converted into an amazing pirate ship for the week. The captain and his able seamen are off on an adventure. There is plenty of treasure on this…
Compassion
Today, we’re glad to hear from David Harrison and the work of Compassion Australia across the world. This afternoon St Hilda’s is hosting a fund raising concert you are very welcome to attend. It’s very easy for us in comfortable Australia to live a life focussed on our ‘first world’ problems and it’s a healthy corrective…