Justice & Advocacy
May is Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month in Queensland. Several ACSQ clergy and lay leaders recently completed a free self-paced online Ridley College course on domestic and family violence education and effective responding. Three participants share their course reflections, including Bishop Cam Venables, Carole Danby and Jenny Clark
Justice & Advocacy
Burleigh Heads Anglican Church recently installed a Red Bench in partnership with the Red Rose Foundation as they serve to advocate and care for women and children impacted by domestic and family violence
Bob and Nettie McMurray recently celebrated 66 years of being happily married. Nettie is a resident at Abri Residential Aged Care on the Gold Coast, and Bob visits her a few times a week so they can spend quality time together. They’re a beautiful couple with a sound piece of advice for those who want to reach the marriage milestone they have: “Give and take”
For both Bob and Nettie McMurray, who have been married since 1956, Valentine’s Day is all about spending quality time with one another. Nettie is a resident of Anglicare Southern Queensland‘s Abri Residential Aged Care home in Southport where she has been living for the past 15 months, and Bob regularly visits his wife around midday
“I gave a copy of this book to the last couple I married and they told me that they read it together on their honeymoon! They say it helped them understand much about each other and even about relationships they’d had in the past that hadn’t gone too well,” says The Rev’d Jim Raistrick from The Parish of Surfers Paradise
The Lambeth Conference was a series of remarkable surprises and examples of God’s gracious action as we gathered before God’s face and prayed. There was a beautiful and deeply moving sense of coming together, and in so doing truly meeting each other — learning from each other, committing ourselves to love across difference
“I follow Jesus, for starters, by being a good father to my kids and a good husband to my wife, and attending church regularly and trying to learn the Bible as much as I possibly can,” says St Bart’s Kids team member, Garang Chut Deng
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