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Intergenerational ministry

Thursday March 23

Dom Fay (Faith and Spirituality Coordinator, Coomera Anglican College), Natasha Materne (Head of RaVE, Coomera Anglican College) and The Rev'd Mary-Anne Rulfs (Associate Priest, The Parish of Robina)

How can parishes connect with schools?

“I’m a long-time advocate for schools and parishes working together. Our special service was a tangible and purposeful interaction between people whose common mission worshipping and serving in the Anglican tradition is the flourishing of families and individuals and making Christ known,” says The Rev’d Mary-Anne Rulfs from Resource Church The Parish of Robina

"Old people's home" for CAC teenagers

Students from Coomera Anglican College and their new “grand-friends”, including a former international football referee, are stepping outside their comfort zone through a digital intergenerational learning project

Anglicare Southern Queensland client Joyce with Starting Strong children Freya (back) and Synthia with Miss Kelly Slattery at Paradise Point in September 2021

Playgroup bridging the gap between children and elderly on the Gold Coast

Babies and Boomers playgroup is bridging the intergenerational gap and providing benefits for kids, their parents and elderly people

Creating a grace zone

“…inclusion is part of a culture that welcomes and nurtures who people are and not who we want to make them,” says The Rev’d Michael Stalley, from St Bartholomew’s, Mt Gravatt