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by Pastor David Schuppan

What is renewal and is it optional to the Christian life? No! It’s not optional. It’s the life of Christ at work in our life. God for us and in us. God loving us entirely, saint and sinner, successes and failures.

by Helen Beringen

God’s messages of love are sometimes burnt onto people’s hearts through humble means. Take a sheet of plywood and wood pen, a little scroll saw, and a willing set of hands, and anything is possible, through God.

by Eleanor Long

Dorothy Hamilton (nee Nuske) was born in Rainbow, in the northwest of Victoria, in 1926. Dorothy was born blind. ‘Not vision-impaired’, she insists, ‘totally blind!’ 

by Helen Beringen

There’s gold in Olga Radke’s library of tattered, worn magazine clippings, and treasured pearls in photos discovered from centuries past.

by Helen Beringen

For Helen Middelmann, her recent retirement from hospital chaplaincy means the end of another season. Though tinged with sadness, the change is part of a life richly blessed for the Canberra retiree with a range of seasons, each one bringing a budding blossom of promise.

by Helen Beringen

Just as a farmer sows seeds and leaves it to God to grow them into bountiful crops, every day God gives us a story to share with those close to… Read more