I've spent the past week at a missions' conference held by CMS NSW. CMS stands for Church Missionary Society and the Australian Branches were started as a flow on effect from the Church Missionary Society in England. Church Missionary Society. As with all organisations these days, a missionary organisation has a statement of purpose, values, …
Another year over, a new one just begun... here's the books I read in 2022 along with my personal reviews. With a few shorter ones along the way, I managed to hit my aim of a book a month, plus two spares. I feel like I'm getting busier each year, but evidently I'm currently making …
Well, this weekend I smashed out the first essay for my Graduate Diploma of Divinity (I think that's what I'm enrolled in... I should probably pay more attention...). The assignment was interesting but it felt like I almost took just as much time with the referencing as I did the actually writing. Half a day, …
As I'm continuing to study this semester, I'm reminded of short-term missions and how often they can be 'interesting'. Personally, I've only been on two trips that you could call short-term mission trips. They were both for a week, which is about as short as they usually get. One trip was to Vanuatu and the …
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