Drug Addicted Youth Recover through God-Centered Mentorship in Africa
Education around the world is designed to empower our future leaders, and equip young people with the knowledge needed to be thoughtful contributors to society. Doing this well though goes beyond basic reading and writing skills, dealing with students’ moral compass, and personal self-belief. .
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Art for Laguna Quays Respite (PSI Best of 2018)
The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite coordinated by Well-Being Australia for missions in its seventh year has proven to be a lovely break away for a wide range of those in Christian service.
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Anzac 5 - Becoming Complicit or Apathetic (PSI Best of 2018)
Anzac means many things to many people and innumerable philosophical lessons have been of instruction to successive generations. One important subject that often gets lost in the stories of Anzac reflect the issue of complicity and apathy whether you're aware of it or not. It can be tricky.
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Sport Writers - big year ahead
Jeremy Dover, David Goodwin, Wes Tronson, Josh Hinds and Phil Hall are our sport writers, who week at a time, each write a sport article once every five weeks and they have a big year ahead.
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57 Years and Still Strong – African Enterprise
Over half the world’s population growth is expected to be in Africa between now and 2050. In the next few decades millions of people will build lives in countries marked by poverty, corruption and war.
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Queen Victoria said it and it resonates (PSI Best of 2018)
Over four years ago now I wrote an article relating to Her Royal Highness, Queen Victoria, who in her long widowhood was alleged to have said ‘We Are Not Amused’, and then listed some of the then current issues for which Australians were not amused.
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Learning from ants! (PSI Best of 2018)
The ant has always been seen as an analogy for industriousness and order in our society. There is Aesop's Fable about the Ant and the Grasshopper. Versions of this have been found in fables of much older origin.
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Laguna Quays Respite readying for 2019
The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite coordinated by Well-Being Australia for missions is completely full with two separate mission occupying the full month. Now in its eighth year the Whitsundays mission respite facility has provided many mission families / couples a much deserved rest and recuperation.
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Australian and NZ railway level crossings an issue (PSI Best of 2018)
A fascinating article in the NZ Herald from my archive once again highlighted the continual dangers of railway level crossings, citing one train driver who experienced the unfortunate situation of having motor vehicles drive in front of his engine resulting in the motorist’s death on each occasion.
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Tossers – and there about (PSI Best of 2018)
In my archive I found this Sydney Morning Herald article titled “How to tell if you're a tosser” written by Larissa Ham and it's quite a revealing piece of literature as having read it, in all honesty I can't think of anyone who hasn't qualified at some point in their lives, and this includes me.
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The issue of saying anything (PSI Best of 2018)
A friend who I went to school with, and a prominent member of the Sex Party and a number of other Eros type organisations, a few years ago sent me an Email, questioning why I and other church leaders had not been, in his view, prominent in denouncing the sex crimes within the Church (by this he particularly meant the Catholics and Anglicans).
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CARD – another ministry IT idea (PSI Best of 2018)
As an avid reader of Christian news media from the four quarters of the earth (as it were) there is not a week passes without there being some item on another ministry idea generated and put into the market place of Christian ministry.