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Photo - Midge Point Beach through the trees
Since 2011 the Laguna Quays Respite facility on the Whitsundays mainland has been available to missionaries and ministers (pastors) for respite and this year, eight years later a second facility was established at Aldinga Beach a little south of Adelaide.
Mr Basil Sellers AM has sponsored this second facility opened in 2016 which is designated for triage missionary respite. August 2013 Basil Sellers visited Laguna Quays Respite and from that visit he requested four missionary executives meet with him in Sydney to discuss triage respite.
The rest is history. Dr Omar Djoeandy (SIM), Reverend Canon Malcolm Richards (CMS), Reverend Ken Clendinning (Global Interaction) and Reverend Viv Grice (Clergy and Missionary burn out) met with Basil Sellers. Omar took the proposal to Mission-Interlink who endorsed it at their October with a formal set of parameters and personnel based at Aldinga Beach.
You know a musical brand is strong when you you can refer to the music / songs within it and people instantly know the name of the musical. In the case of Wicked, the best known song Defying Gravity exemplifies the peak of the protagonist’s journey. As always, spoiler alert!
Wicked compared to the Wizard of Oz
Wicked follows the background story to the already well-known character – the Wicked Witch of the West, from Frank L Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This literary classic from 1900 helped to propel Baum’s world of Oz into the minds of kids all over the world. In the original storyline, Dorothy was the protagonist – innocent and the heroine who defeated the big bad – encapsulated in the Wicked Witch of the West.
“The thing I love about Christianity is that it’s the one religion that basically says: you stink! Come on in!” This quote from comedian Brad Stine is actually quite true.
As Christians we know that when we accept Christ into our lives, we are loved and accepted despite our flaws or our pasts. But why is that? Why does God accept us no matter what and why do we seem to find it so hard to do the same to others?
Loving Father
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name. He gave the right to become children of God.” (John chapter 1, verse 12). As Christians we are children of God and He is our loving father. So he has unending and unconditional love for us, just like an earthly father.
Photo - State-Borders’ Business - art - Tronson du Coudray
Tronson du Coudray’s art work for the Tuesday 9 March Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce breakfast ‘business card drawer’ was titled ‘State-Borders’ Business’.
This art image is a reflection of numerous lorries lining up at any State Border one might wish to name when borders are slammed shut whenever one or two Covid 19 is announced.
Bang – Shut – Business can go ….. No matter how much damage a State might do to its own business community let alone national commerce – shut they are.
The consequences are meaningless. The people are told they are at risk. That one Covid 19 case will decimate their family, their community, their livelihoods – yet the case in Melbourne saw the entire State closed including Bairnsdale in the north east and Mildura on the western NSW border. Uproar was the outcome.