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As I write this, I’m camped outside the main auditorium at KCC, my blue CMS Summer School bag slung at my feet with my notes from the Bible talks spilling out.

Volunteers from Turramurra’s Anglican church have helped make a silver-service lunch a hit with residents at a nearby retirement village. Natasha Percy found that the local clergy are surprised by the doors that have opened.

Depression sent Paula Vouris on a spiritual journey. Paula tells Judy Adamson how she ended up outside a church praying that someone would invite her in.

Judy Adamson goes inside a very unusual Sydney church, meets tough, hard-living surfers who have had their lives radically changed, and discovers how a whole suburb is being transformed.

Andrew ‘Fishtail’ Fisher loves motor racing but he also loves Jesus Christ. In 2007 he found a way to bring his two passions together and formed the Jesus Racing Team. However, amid the thrill of being a race car driver Andrew has had to endure some extraordinary challenges on top of the mishaps of racing. Joseph Smith went to interview him at Oran Park.

Food drives in partnership with Sydney Anglicare offer churches a great reason, and not just a great excuse, to go out and connect with the local community.

Archbishop Peter Jensen explains why he believes the Lord is behind the Connect09 campaign.

When I tell people I’m headed to Summer School this January, they tend to look at me with a little confusion. I guess it’s understandable – I graduated from university back in July. Plus, they know me too well to think I’d spend the sunny season cooped up in classes.

Mission amongst Muslim peoples is one of five strategic areas of ministry that CMS Australia is emphasising in Vision 2012. This Vision outlines the blueprint for how CMS will do mission over the next five years. As thousands gather for CMS Summer School in Katoomba this week, CMS Federal Secretary John Thew is highlighting the importance of mission in Muslim areas and hoping to see CMS have at least 65 workers in the Muslim world by 2012 – an increase of 50 within the next four years.

I am glad that the good old fashioned ‘Giving your testimony’ kind of talk has died out. I became a believer back in the late 1950's! My question is, “Why are you still a Christian?”

In the first of two talks on the subject, Al Stewart addresses the parts men and women play in the world God has created.

This is the first sermon in a larger series, Some things you ought to know... delivered at a range of venues in 2008.

I re-read the recommendations on the back of the book for the twentieth time, wondering whether I had read something quite different by accident...

Attracting many new community contacts, Mowbray Anglican Church successfully launched a new event in their church’s calendar in 2008: the Christmas Night Market.

As the financial crisis deepens, Sydney Anglican organisations are working to cut costs.

In the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten in the balmy spring of April 2008, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a normal suburban home.

Penny Reeve worked for TEAR in Nepal for 10 years with her husband. She has now written two children’s books - 'The Back Leg of a Goat' and 'Water or Goo'.

This summer Crusaders are supplementing their traditional ‘offline’ methods of reaching students with the gospel with a new ‘online’ strategy.