The Baru Beat
“The most impactful workshop conversations were led by those living with disability who said that, ‘If you just let me tell you what I have in place, I can be as independent as possible, even in a crisis’,” shares The Rev’d Loretta Tyler-Moss
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“Birds often give me solace, including a wedge-tailed eagle after the violent death of a cousin; encouragement from black cockatoos at the closing of a Kairos Outside prison ministry weekend; affirmation from bulbuls outside my house in Dodoma after my arrival and upon my departure,” says Marilyn Wright from St Bartholomew’s, Mt Gravatt, as the Season of Creation continues
“I think I have some unique insights about the climate because I have been sleeping in it for nearly 30 years in Queensland. I have noticed that there is less rain than before, but when it does rain, it rains a lot. And, the storms are much more severe. And, winters? What winters?” reflects Brisbane rough sleeper, Sean Higgins
“We moved stuff upstairs. The lights went out. We headed for higher ground, and there we stayed for five days. We were lucky because we had just a couple of inches of water in the rooms we had emptied. Our neighbours, a few metres down the hill, were not so lucky,” says Jon Eastgate from St Andrew’s, South Brisbane
“One of the great gifts of the Church is that there are always others with far more faith than me who can do the believing when I find it too hard, until I find myself able to believe again,” says Bishop Jeremy Greaves
St Mary’s, Kilcoy recently held a ‘Breakfast Under The Branches’ fundraising event, raising more than $1,000 for the Archbishop’s Emergency Relief Appeal
With the ongoing drought and recent bushfires in our Western Region, proud WestMAC mum Mandy Bower-van Deventer organises water drives for families and school children in and around Stanthorpe through ‘Mum On A Mission’
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