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Some Christians shudder when another missions offering is announced. Money for local needs. Yes. Money to aid the poor. Yes. Money for outreach. Yes. But why give to missions, whether they be for nations far away, or for the homeless in the inner city, or for indigenous people or for someone’s pet project? This question is raised by people whose God is too small! Understand more about God and you will support His mission.

As a teenager in Christian Endeavour, I was deeply moved when a former missionary to China, Mr H.A.G.Clark, explained how the Christian missionaries in China had been expelled after the Communist take over in 1948 and what was happening to the persecuted Christians left behind. Especially Pearl Anderson. Pearl was a nurse, who had been adopted by Mr and Mrs Albert Anderson, Churches of Christ missionaries in China, after she was abandoned as a baby.

Stephen Lungu began life as the oldest son of a teenage mother, who was married off to a much older man by her parents while living in a black township near Salisbury, Zimbabwe. The marriage was violent and after many attempts, Stephen’s mother eventually took the children and ran away from his father. Worse was to come. Stephen was three years old when his mother abandoned him as well. She had taken Stephen and his younger brother and sister to the local market, where she told Stephen to watch them while she went to the toilet. She did not return.

The ABC TV Program “Compass” over two weeks screened “The Delusion of God” featuring Professor Richard Dawkins. He accused the three main religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism – of beliefs that defy science, and of stunting the mind’s capacity for understanding. He embarked on a personal, controversial and, at times, humorous journey [...]

The discovery of your roots in the past, gives meaning to the present and hope for the future. When I was a boy growing up in Box Hill, Victoria, my widowed mother was concerned that I could defend myself against rough boys like the fighting O’Gradys next door. So I went to boxing and [...]

Dr Nikolay Nikandrov, an educationalist without peer in Russia, (Google his name) recently told Russian University Chancellors of the importance of universities including teaching the Bible in their courses. He told them, “You cannot call a person educated who does not know the Bible.” Can you imagine any leading educator saying that at such a conference in Australia?

It was an early crisp morning on January 17th this year. About three hundred people gathered on a railway bridge looking down on the railway tracks. A wave of 83 roses fell to the tracks. People in tears hugged each other. On the Bold Street Bridge, an attractive young mother hugged a large policeman, recently retired.
Thirty years earlier, we can all remember where we were when we heard that morning that a train from the Blue Mountains had crashed at Granville, in western Sydney. But this was no ordinary crash. It had crashed into the staunchions that held up the 170 tonne concrete road bridge which were brought down crushing three carriages packed with commuters on their way to work.

You cannot take a picture of the mission of the church, unless it is a moving picture. Missions must always be in action.

Christians are to worship God, witness to His Gospel of salvation, serve the needs of hurting people, bring comfort to broken hearts, release to the captives and hope to the despairing. We [...]

On Boxing Day, 2006, I received an unexpected email in my inbox from Greg Reinhardt of Gympie, Queensland. I have never met Greg, but he runs an excellent website featuring the changed lives of people who have been converted.

On Sunday 10 September the King of Tonga died. I met him on several occasions. King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV, 88, was the benign feudal ruler of Tonga, the South Pacific kingdom known as the Friendly Islands since the days of Captain James Cook. The King was the world’s only Methodist sovereign.