Several years ago, I attended a school seminar with guest speaker Hugh van Cuylenberg, who wrote the book “The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness”. Hugh expounds the benefits of gratitude in helping our overall wellbeing. He suggests three questions to ask ourselves to help us to be grateful: ‘What was the best thing that happened to … Read More

A Youth Pastor shared of the time he reconnected with an old youth group attendee. The young man recounted encouraging memories of fun and community. In the midst of tall tales and laughter he threw out a haunting line, “It’s really great how you teach young people good morals.” This left the Pastor puzzled. How did this young man get … Read More

Over the next couple of weeks while Jason is on leave, Sarah and I will be sharing from the Psalms. The Book of Psalms is filled with human cries of praise and of anguish to a holy God who doesn’t always fit human expectations. It also paints pictures of who God really is and his ultimate faithfulness to us. This … Read More

This article is a repost from Oct 2023 not because there are big issues in our church community, but because our wider society is finding these commitments to be safe, brave and gracious difficult. I want to encourage us to practice this in our relationships, and to help others to do the same. Be encouraged! Jason We work hard to … Read More

The SA Church Basketball season has come to the finals run. Here is an update from Peter B for last weekend.  “Congratulations to our ladies for winning last Saturday to progress straight through to their Grand Final.  The team played so well.  It was a magnificent effort given they had not beaten their opposition all year – well done ladies.   … Read More

This weekend it is time to remember our dads. What are the key memories you have of your father? Mine are of my dad as hard working, stoic, faithful, tough, clever. Dad could do anything. Well nearly. He wasn’t much good at hugs, playing soccer, coming to school events or relaxing. I have spent a portion of my life wanting … Read More

What would you advocate for? An advocate is someone who will ‘publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something.’ We see advocacy everywhere. Parents speaking up for their children, unions for their workers, managers for their team, lawyers for their clients, constituents to their politicians. Advocacy is necessary when something needs to be championed, and it … Read More

This is the sixth year we have held an Exhibition as part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival and each year our exhibition has grown both in size and quality. This year, we have 35 artists submitting 96 artworks! The SALA Team also learns more each year about putting together an exhibition! Our first workshop weekend went really well, … Read More

Did you know this year Baptist Care SA merged to join with other states to become a national entity? This, in the short term, financially secures Baptist Care’s work in our state. Longer term it is hoped it will expand the impact of this Baptist ministry across our nation. Through August our churches are encouraged to consider, support and pray … Read More