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Curfews, COVID and Missionary Flashbacks

Being in an 9pm-5am curfew, under Melbourne’s strict lockdown, reminds me of our time in the late 90’s while serving in Cambodia as missionaries, except the reason for curfew then was so you wouldn’t get robbed or your kids kidnapped. How else can we relate to the restrictions we’ve been facing in this Coronavirus pandemic? In Thailand we greeted each other with closed palms in front of our face. How many times have you gone for the handshake instead of the elbow touch? Don’t worry, after a while it becomes second nature. Well, working from home is normal; MK’s (Missionary...

Jim Dawson

Christ in a Curfew

Jon Coombs

Melbourne has now been under a curfew for a week. What an amazing sentence to write. I’ve always figured that to be under curfew would mean I was living in a country under martial law or something similar; where there would be the threat of violence and war. Even living in the Middle East for a couple of years, in a country that had numerous political assassinations, bus bombings, a short-lived war with its neighbour, and military checkpoints throughout the area I lived, there was never a curfew. It’s a strange and sad sentence to write. And it’s a reality...

How We’re Praying for Victoria

Editor

As Melbourne and Victoria enter six weeks of Stage 3 and 4 COVID lockdowns, we asked six members of the TGCA Victoria committee how they’re praying for their city and State. Why not pray these prayers for Victoria over the coming six weeks? Join our Gospel Workers National Prayer meeting on 1:00pm, Friday, 7 August here. Murray Capill, RTC Australia I’m praying God will use this massive upheaval of our lives to cause many people to stop and think about what we really live for and where hope, security and purpose are really found I’m praying for three things. First, that...

Lead for Endurance Not Recovery!

Dominic Steele

In this post, taken from the EFAC/Peter Corney Institute online conference, Dominic Steele explains why Australian pastors need to make a strategic shift in their thinking. Australian church leaders need to make a philosophical shift across the board, away from leading for recovery and towards planning to lead for endurance.  We need to start using the catch-cry, ‘not recovery, but endurance, ’ in order to set our people’s expectations right. We need to start using the catch-cry, ‘not recovery, but endurance, ’ in order to set our people’s expectations right. Back in May, the Australian Prime Minister announced that he...

I’m Tired … But God Isn’t.

Heidi Tai

2020 has aged me. Although I am someone who fights hard for autonomy, the past seven months have exposed the delusions of my self-sufficiency. 2020 has shaken my idols of comfort and control, and my own throne too. There are days where I have dissolved into a child-like mess, dramatically begging Simba (my Maltese Shitzu) to live forever and to never leave me behind… 2020 has shaken my idols of comfort and control Although overcoming COVID-19 once seemed a possibility in Australia, the reality of the second wave has been discouraging to say the least. Just yesterday, borders closed, church openings were...

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