Archive for the 'Pastor to the Slums' Category
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 60’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
It was not long after we had shifted in to our very [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 3:31 pm | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 60’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
It was not long after we had shifted in to our very [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 3:28 pm | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 60’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
After I had been a student minister in the Newmarket and Ascot [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 3:25 pm | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 60’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
One of the identities in the streets of Newmarket in those days [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 3:16 pm | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 1960’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
I had started preaching in those two little inner area churches [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 12:32 pm | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 1960’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
We very rarely saw Aboriginal people in the community during those [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 12:25 pm | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was a young minister freshly graduated and ordained, my first ministry in the 1960’s, after seven years of the slums of Newmarket, was in a small country church, in the small country town of Ararat, gateway to the Wimmera in Western Victoria. There I learnt the difficult art faced by all city bred [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 9:40 am | Pastor to the Slums, A Country Parson |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 1960’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
After more than seven years as student minister, then part time [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 9:31 am | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 1960’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
After three years of working in the two small churches in [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 9:29 am | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |
When I was studying to be a minister of the Gospel, my student churches were two adjacent wooden churches in the inner slum areas of Melbourne. For seven years during the 1950’s and 1960’s the people of those inner slum areas were my parish.
At different times while I was a student minister at the [...]
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Friday, 10th February, 2006, 9:17 am | Australian Short Stories, Pastor to the Slums |