Twenty-Nine Years of Catering for Uni Student Conferences
Many of the students I have cooked for have become full-time ministry workers. I feel blessed that I have participated in ministries that have led to a life-changing and wide-ranging impact.
Many of the students I have cooked for have become full-time ministry workers. I feel blessed that I have participated in ministries that have led to a life-changing and wide-ranging impact.
During the COVID-19 crisis, social media has seen an explosion of home-baked sourdough, oven-fresh dinner rolls, and bouncy cinnamon scrolls. After years of paleo, blood-sugar, and keto diets, carbs are king again. And there was much rejoicing. But why? What was it about this pandemic that made so many of us instinctively want to make and consume bread? At the heart of the meaning of bread is domesticity, homeliness, what the Danish call hygge. Bread requires us to be home, and to embrace being home. And the pandemic has forced many of us to make peace with a place that...
This year I watched my 18 month old nephew open his Christmas presents via FaceTime. It was 9.30pm on Christmas Eve and I was sitting in a friend’s guest bedroom in London. My nephew and the rest of my family were back home in Sydney having recently woken up to an already sweltering Christmas morning. I watched him rip off the wrapping paper with ever more vigour. My mum, who was pointing the phone camera towards him, kept asking if I could see him OK. My brother in law pulled faces at me each time the camera caught him. My...
Right now one of our beloved church couples is winging their way to Taiwan to finally take home their adopted five year old boy; a little one has spent five long years in an orphanage. They would have adopted in Australia, except the adoption laws are way too restrictive and there are no unwanted babies being put up for adoption because there are no unwanted babies making it to birth. They chose life. In Australia there are no unwanted babies being put up for adoption because there are no unwanted babies making it to birth. And on this same weekend,...