schools

by Helen Beringen

For 68-year-old Queenslander Anne Maczkowiack, walking the 800-kilometre Camino De Santiago trail across Spain was only a part of a post-retirement reward in 2014. She and husband Robert decided to add an extra 300 kilometres to start from Barcelona. That says something about embracing opportunities

Yirara College was honoured to be chosen to host His Royal Highness, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex KG GCVO, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, acknowledging the 60th anniversary of the award in Australia.

South Australia’s Redeemer Lutheran School located in Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley was recognised recently at the Australian Education Awards, winning the national award for Innovation in Learning Environment Design.

Anne Hansen from Lutheran Tract Mission was asked by some school chaplains to write a series of tracts for children. The catch: the text had to express the love of Jesus, but not mention his name. Could you do it?

Being a Christian chaplain in a government school means you can’t explicitly preach the good news about Jesus to students. But that suits Sharon Salomon just fine, because there’s no rule against living the gospel!

Being a Christian chaplain in a government school means you can’t explicitly preach the good news of Jesus to students, but that suits Sharon Salomon just fine because there’s no rule against living the gospel as an example.