“Earlier this month, Sri Lankan-born refugee and Multicultural Australia client Sisira Fernando joined in the working bee at Baroona Farm and immediately felt connected with the place…He was delighted, in particular, to see okra, winged beans and gotu cola (a herb) growing. However, most of all Sisira felt welcomed at the working bee,” says The Rev’d Samuel Dow
There is strong Anglican involvement in a long-running public campaign to keep in Australia a Tamil family threatened with deportation on 22 September, including from Biloela Anglican and close family friend Angela Fredericks and Bishop Jeremy Greaves
Over 300 organisations, businesses and community groups have signed a joint letter to all Federal MPs and Senators calling on them to take urgent action on the devastating situation in Afghanistan, including Anglican Board of Mission
“When I returned home to Bilo from Perth in June, which was an emotional trip leaving me feeling exhausted and deflated, my spirits were buoyed upon seeing a hand-written card from Bishop Jeremy Greaves which he had mailed to me while I was away,” says 33-year-old Anglican Angela Fredericks, who is leading the national fight to bring Nades, Priya and their girls back home to Bilo