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Generosity

Sunday December 22

Group of South Sudanese people holding up a blue event banner

To Fargo and back

“Hugging people with tears of joy was the highlight of my recent trip to the US for me. We former Lost Boys had lots to reminisce about because we are such good friends — we kept each other alive on the long desert journeys and during our 15 years in the refugee camps,” says Bishop Daniel Abot

Finding freedom

“The observance of Refugee Week invites us to recall their humanity, to ponder how their humanity might touch ours, and to challenge the narrative that we like to tell ourselves about being a generous country,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt

The Rev'd Daniel Sitaram and Parish of Strathpine Mothers Union members and supporters bless sewing machines and the hands of the people who will use them in the Diocese of Malaita, with (L-R) Noela, Pamela, Pat, The Rev'd Daniel, Hilary, Doris and Jenny

St Faith’s, Strathpine sew happy with seamless appeal

“When the President of Mothers Union in the Diocese of Malaita, Catherine Lamani, turned up to a mid-week service at St Faith’s, Strathpine in September last year, we got chatting,” says Pam Lynam

Bush generosity and a pub wake

“Towards the end of the parishioner’s funeral, I said that, ‘We will see all of you at the pub after the service.’ It meant something to her family and friends that I was part of the group of loved ones grieving her loss. Her son subsequently shouted me a beer, later commenting how much he appreciated my care for his mum…Our parish can only afford a full-time priest because of the Bush Ministry Fund, which is overseen by Bishop Cam Venables,” says The Rev’d Matthew Skelton from The Parish of Allora Clifton

TSAC students raise nearly $7,000 for Cancer Council

For the second year, a group of Year 12 students from The Springfield Anglican College has taken part in the Cancer Council’s Ponytail Project, cutting off their locks to raise nearly $7,000 and provide hair for patients’ wigs

Putting on Christ

“Every person who is baptised promises, or in the case of young children godparents promise on their behalf, to turn to Christ. They are signed with the sign of the cross to show that they are marked as Christ’s own forever. And they are called to Christian ministry, to serve Christ in the world,” says Archbishop Phillip Aspinall

Generosity and grace…well-seasoned by wisdom

“Somehow in Christ we are called to a new way of relating that is deeply grounded in the relationship we have with God. It’s not the transactional: you do something to me or for me, and – in response – I do something to you or for you. Instead, I think we are called to proactive generosity and grace…well-seasoned by wisdom,” says Bishop Cam Venables in this recent homily