Guardian December 2017 by Anglican Diocese of Adelaide

DEC 2017

GUARDIAN THE MAGAZINE OF THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF ADELAIDE

MEET THE MASTER BUILDER

THE ANGLICAN GUARDIAN

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GOD IS WITH US

Archbishop Geoffrey Smith

One of my favourite parts of the Christmas story is the linking of Jesus with the prediction of the prophet Isaiah and the description of Jesus as ‘Emmanuel’ which Matthew 1.23 helpfully tells us means “God is with us”. I have always found the idea of Jesus being ‘God with us’ very positive. The birth of Jesus, the coming of God among us is a powerful expression of God’s love for all people and the whole of creation. God hasn’t forgotten the world although it looks like the world regularly forgets God. God hasn’t ignored the world even though it seems like the world often ignores God. God isn’t far far away with little actual interest in our very small planet and all of us as we try our best to live our life. God is with us in Jesus, knowing our life, living our joy and pain. We are not abandoned or forgotten, God is with us. There is another aspect to this statement in that not only is God with us but God is with us In other words God is for us. The great news about Christmas is that only in Jesus is God with us, that is, present with us, the opposite of being away from us or abandoning us, but God is with us, in other words for us, on our

side, interested in our good, acting positively for us. We see God being with us in Jesus ministry culminating in his death and resurrection. Jesus is with us and on the cross made possible our reconciliation with God. Both aspects of ‘God with us’ are immensely positive. The question is how do we make this real in our life? The answer is found in something we are very familiar with at Christmas. Each Christmas many of us give and receive gifts. We know what to do with a gift-we accept it, we are thankful for it and we make whatever us of it we can (depending on the gift). In a similar way we can accept that God is with us (in both senses) we can be thankful that’s the case and let that reality shape our thinking, our attitudes and our actions. We can live each day with “God is with us’. Christmas can be a very mixed time of the year. It can be a time of great fun and celebration with family and friends but Christmas can be a time of loneliness, sadness, and isolation. May this Christmas be a time when we are very conscious that no matter what our circumstance God is with us in Jesus and may the gift of Jesus bring us joy, hope and purpose.

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From Breeches To Tobruk: A Conversation With The Diocesan Archivist

Meet The Master Builder

FAITH

A New Season Awaits St Barnabas College

The Ordination Of Women To The Priesthood: 25 Years On

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Meet This Years’ Ordinands!

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MISSION

SCHOOLS

Reed House Restored To Former Glory

COMMUNITY

Emergency Assistance Available For Those In Financial Hardship

Multi-Cultural Jamboree For All Saints

New Youth Conference Heading True North

CMS Farewells Branch Director

God In Australian Literature

Australian Anglican Deacons Conference To Descend Upon Adelaide

Film Review: Wonder

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From Breeches To Tobruk

A Conversation With The Diocesan Archivist Dr Sarah Black is Adelaide’s Diocesan Archivist and Guardian sat down with her recently to talk breeches, Tobruk, and everything in between;

Q. How did you come to be in this field? A. I started out as a high school teacher, but returned to university for postgraduate study. During my postgrad years I volunteered for the Anglican Archives and the University of Adelaide Archives, and out of that I worked for the University Archives for a year or two, where I received my basic training. Q. Was history always something that interested you? A. Yes, I think so. I received almost no history teaching at school, but history was all around me nonetheless – I would have had a hard time escaping it. My mother was interested in family history research, so I grew up knowing history as a very personal matter of backgrounds and origins. I had a grade seven teacher who got us all to do some oral history with a family member, so I interviewed my grandfather, and I still remember the wonderful stories he told me from his life. As a teenager in the 1980s I did a student exchange and lived with a family in Germany for six months. Being quite an ignoramus about the history of the war, I was astounded to find that many people of the older generations wanted to talk to me about it, to reflect on their own personal histories, or their parents’ histories, from that fractured period. It was important to them to share with me how they made sense of their past. I suppose this showed me, in a particularly direct way, that the past is always with us, with each one of us, and that we need to learn its lessons.

Q. How did you come to be the Diocesan Archivist? A. I was tapped on the shoulder by the previous archivist, Robin Radford, who asked for some help! I had volunteered for Robin years earlier, but in late 2013 she asked me to come back again. In 2014, she retired and at that point I took on the archivist role. Q. What does the job involve? A. Archiving is a wonderfully rich role. You may think it’s all about paper, but really, it’s all about people and their stories. It starts with identifying records that should be preserved for posterity. This means those records that document the life, work, organisation and history of the Anglican Church in South Australia. I work with parishes, church office and various organisations and bodies within the church, to help identify and deal with records of archival merit. I am sometimes approached by members of the church or the broader public who have items that they wish to donate. Sometimes it might be a picture, or a set of letters, or some other record that relates to the history of the Anglican church in South Australia. There are some treasures out there. Then comes the task of managing and caring for those records. You have to be careful always to preserve the known history and provenance of the record – who made it, when, what the context

was, and so on. Respecting the original order of records is another important principle of archiving. The science of archival management is quite a big subject. There is always plenty of listing, indexing and organising to be done. Records often need physical preservation work, whether it’s removing metal paperclips (tedious but necessary), polishing brass and silver, or preparing photographs for scanning. And then there’s the higher-order work of making sense of a pile of old papers, in order to transform them into a series that has a clear provenance and relationship to the organisational structure and history of the church. Many of our older Anglican records are lodged in the State Library of South Australia, where they are permanently housed and accessible. I liaise with the State Library staff on this process. Archiving involves being able to retrieve records as required for reference and research. The diocesan archives office receives many research requests each year, and we aim to provide people with appropriate information as well as we can. Ultimately, archives are about memory and about communication. People come to the archives when they have a puzzle they need to solve. My job involves finding pieces of puzzles for people, and helping them put the pieces together.

Q. What makes (Adelaide) Anglican history unique?

clergy families, and was gifted to the archives in 2012.

others, and to chart our course through the present and into the future.

A. This may sound trite, but – it’s us! It is our history, as part of the community of the people of God. We have our successes and our failures, our aspirations, our processes and our stories.

Another item that I find very evocative is a set of communion linens used by a chaplain in World War 2, including at Tobruk and at Lae in Borneo. My great uncle was at Tobruk, and I wonder if he might have seen those communion linens in action.

If we don’t, it’s like we are walking around with one eye closed. Try that, and you’ll see what I mean. With only one eye open, we see the same things but we lack depth perception. That makes it harder to move confidently, and we are more likely to stumble. Memory of the past is essential to our functioning. That’s true for individuals, and also for communities and institutions.

Each of the Anglican dioceses of Australia has historically been relatively independent of the others, and consequently we have our own culture and ways of doing things. Adelaide is, by all accounts, a good example of the breadth of the Anglican communion, and of how the Anglican church, being a broad church, has to respect and encompass difference. Our diocesan records reflect this selfunderstanding from quite early in our history. Q. What are some of the more interesting articles / items that you’ve come across? A. Gosh – so many! Inevitably, I have a few of my own personal favourites. One would be a copy of the Geneva Bible, known as the “Breeches” bible because Adam and Eve, in this translation, sewed their fig leaves together to make themselves some breeches! The Geneva Bible was an incredibly important bible, a powerhouse of early Protestantism and the bible that Shakespeare would have used. The copy held by us came down through some of our important early

Finally, I’ll mention our collection of clergy memoirs, diaries, correspondence and biographies. These are a marvellous resource. (Clergy, remember that the memoirs and biographies of today will be the resources of tomorrow, so keep on writing those life histories, and sending the archives a copy!) One letter by the young Reverend Leonard Maund, who came from theological college in Canterbury, England to be the curate of All Saints’ Hindmarsh in 1897, describes the joy of riding through the bush, on mission journeys through what are now the northern suburbs, the perfect silence broken by nothing but the sound of a laughing kookaburra. How times have changed! Q. Why is this job / the preservation of history important? A. One of our core challenges as human beings is to make sense and meaning out of the past. From our knowledge of our history, we build narratives that give us insight into our present times, and that help us to move forward in life. This is a foundational human activity that enables us to understand ourselves and

For an institution such as the church, archives are important for all those same reasons about memory, selfunderstanding and orienting yourself in the present and for the future. In addition, well-managed archives are essential for good governance, efficient administration, operational integrity, and for ensuring accountability both now and in the future. Sir Ninian Stephen, former High Court Justice and Governor-General, said in 1984, “without archives there would be no verifiable past and mankind would be left with no more than the fleeting present and the unknowable future.” Archives preserve the verifiable evidence of the past, and that what makes them so important. Every time I am able to give a former resident of our church homes information about their time in care, every time I can give somebody information that they need to do their job, or write their parish history, or run their school, or whatever it may be, I know how important the church archives are.

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MASTER BUILDER by Peter March They’re the 82-year-old interlocking blocks from Denmark that are loved the world over. LEGO a household name! Six of the famous eight-studded LEGO bricks can connect in 915,103,765 ways, and Rev’d Mark Hawkes at St Mark’s Golden Grove has now used them to connect primary school aged children in his community to the church’s Thursday afternoon Kids Club. The “Living Life with Lego” series ran from July to September this year, “One parishioner from our afternoon service had an idea for doing a Lego themed outreach service,” explained Rev’d Hawkes. “We jumped on board with that, and following much discussion and brainstorming, were able to run an entire term of Lego Kids Club, concluding with the Lego themed outreach service.” “Lego is very popular with children of all ages. But we were blown away by God’s goodness to us in organising things behind the scenes that we hadn’t even asked for. A woman who joins us twice a year from England, arrived a month before Lego Kids Club started, with a large box of well over a thousand Lego trading Cards from Sainsbury’s. She didn’t know we were doing Lego Kids Club, and thought that perhaps they might be useful for something. The children at Kids Club loved them. God was clearly going ahead of us and blessing us in ways we hadn’t even thought of asking.” Topics covered across the series included “Meet the Master Builder”, “Discover the Best LEGO Pieces”, “Build with Different Blocks”, “LEGO Lunacy”, and “God will never LEGO of you”. “It was great to see new people join the Kids Club as children invited their friends. It was also wonderful to

welcome some new families to our 4pm service as a result of the Lego theme.” While the Lego-themed series proved to be a raging success, things were slow going early on for the fledgling Kids’ Club in the north-eastern community, “One of our parishioners really had it on her heart to coordinate and start an afternoon Kids’ Club, to help the children of St Mark’s connect with God, with each other, and also connect with people in the wider community. She pulled together a group of families and leaders and we launched the Kids’ Club with 10-13 kids at the start of 2016. The first year was quite challenging as the group remained small and even diminished as families either moved away or had other commitments. However, we persevered and started to see children inviting their friends. It has been exciting that numbers have since grown to over 25 regularly attending.” “At St Mark’s, we firmly believe that all people of all ages can have a meaningful relationship with Jesus. We also believe that it’s important to communicate the good news about Jesus in a manner that people can understand. Thus, our ministry to children looks quite difference to our ministries to the middle-aged and to the elderly. Statistics show that the majority of people who follow Jesus, made a decision to do so before they were 18. Thus, we see the importance of being able to share and teach the gospel to young people in this area.” “We’re also very mindful that children’s ministry is not simply entertaining children, but rather introducing them to God in an age appropriate manner. That is why children hear from God’s word at every session of Kids’ Club as they learn of all that God has done for them and how he longs to be a part of their lives. It is thrilling to see children from nonchurch families enjoying hearing about God’s love for them and taking it on

‘Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures for ever.’ (Psalm 136:1) “Although it is a massive understatement, God is indeed good, and we have experienced God’s goodness at St Mark’s in a number of different ways over the years.” “When we arrived at St Mark’s, there were a number of friendly people who welcomed us very warmly. We found it easy to settle in to the area. But of course, while there was this lovely group of us who met together to worship God each week at St Mark’s, and many who gathered at other nearby churches, there were many more people in Golden Grove and beyond, who didn’t know God, didn’t know about salvation offered through Jesus, and were not connected to a church family. So that’s a challenge, to pray and work out how to connect with people beyond our church community, to bring people to church and the gospel to people.” “We were also conscious that there were a number of factors that made it difficult for families with young children, and also for ministry growth in general. For example, one of these was the lack of a safe space for children to play after the service. This made it very difficult for parents of young children to have conversations with other adults after the service.” “Several years ago, Parish Council decided to install a fenced area adjacent to the church building to give current (and any future families) a safe play area. Thanks to the forward thinking of some Parish Council members, the fenced area was made larger than initially required. We had been praying and hoping for a playground for a few years.” “We were so grateful to God when a nearby school contacted us at the start of 2017 asking if we would like to have their existing playground (that they were replacing) at no charge! Having raised

the funds to remove and install the playground, we are delighted to see that it fits perfectly within the fenced area. This has been well used by children at our Sunday services and at our Kids’ Club.” “It has been really encouraging to see God’s faithfulness and kindness in providing so many blessings. It really reinforces that God uses the gifts and work of believers, who plant and water the seed of the gospel, but it is ultimately Him who makes it grow. God is able to provide so much more than we ask or imagine.” “There are countless examples of times that God has provided us with things, and arranged things behind the scenes. These coincidences, or ‘Godincidences’, are encouraging reminders that God is growing His church here at Golden Grove. “ With continued growth across his church community, Mark has plenty more plans in the pipeline, as the Parish of St Mark’s Golden Grove wait in eager expectation for what the future holds. “With the success of the Kids Club’, we have recognised that there will soon be a need to start a youth group to nurture the children in their relationship with

God as they grow older. This will require leaders that we don’t currently have, and a space that we don’t have either! However, nothing is impossible for God, so we are praying about these things, and are looking forward to seeing how God will answer.” “We also recognise that we really need a separate hall, to use for a variety of things - Sunday School, Youth Group, and other ministry events. We are doing some consulting, planning, and of course lots of praying, and are hoping that we will be able to have this space sooner rather than later.” “God is good. And we depend on him completely, for sharing the good news about Jesus with people of all ages in our community, and for helping grow and mature the faith of everyone at St Mark’s.”

There are countless examples of times that God has provided us with things, and arranged things behind the scenes. These coincidences, or ‘Godincidences’, are encouraging reminders that God is growing His church here at Golden Grove. “

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board. It is also exciting when families start coming to church where they can grow even more in their relationship with God.”

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A New Season Awaits St Barnabas College by The Rev’d Canon Dr. Matthew Anstey Matthew Anstey addresses students in 2013 at St Peter’s Cathedral

When I was asked to write a reflection on my eight years as Principal of St Barnabas College, I thought of many things. I thought of just how amazing the journey has been – exhilarating and yet daunting, energising and yet testing. It’s been all this and more. I thought of all the people I could thank for their contribution to the life of the College – staff, students, lecturers, colleagues, friends, lay and ordained folk in the Diocese and the Province – and realised it would take the rest of the article if I named them all! So instead, I name just four very special people towards the end of the article. I thought of the many highlights of the last eight years: ◦◦ Staff & Lecturers: we’ve been blessed by staff and lecturers and volunteers from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Uniting, Baptist, Salvation Army, Greek Orthodox, Churches of Christ, Pentecostal, and Lutheran

churches, who come from all sorts of different ministry and life and cultural and theological perspectives, bringing a wealth of wisdom, experience, and expertise. I’ve loved working at the College with a wonderful array of people who so generously give of their gifts and time and passion. ◦◦ Students: it’s been fantastic to see growth in student enrolments, especially of lay students, but also of students from a diversity of denominations and age groups and theological traditions. The growth in students undertaking honours and doctoral programs has been a particular highlight. ◦◦ Visiting Scholars: we’ve been blessed with the public lecture by Professor Miroslav Volf; the monthlong visit by Professor Ellen Charry (our Inaugural Visiting Theologian) and the two conferences she participated in, Flourishing in Faith: Theology and Positive Psychology, and The National Anglican Women’s Conference; the two-week visit

of Professor Richard Middleton in 2017; and guest lectures by scholars such as Dr Stephen Barton, Dr James Alison, Professor Dorothy Lee, Dr Ben Myers, and Professor Liz MacKinlay. ◦◦ The New Library: it goes without saying that the donation of 75,000 books to the College in 2015 was a transformative event in the life of the College. This year we commenced borrowing for students and staff and in 2018 the hope is to extend this to the general public. This is a gift which keeps on giving. ◦◦ The Return to St Barnabas: the move in 2015 to the original St Barnabas Building opposite the Cathedral was very significant and placed the College in the heart of the Diocese. Yes, parking is not ideal, but overall, it’s fabulous being back where the College was founded in 1880. ◦◦ The 2016 Rebranding: the whole process of stakeholder research, scoping, planning, revising the new brand story of the College

– Encouraging people to know and love God through learning in community – was a unique opportunity for the College to articulate its identity more clearly and reposition itself in the market more strategically. (And we love the new logo and colour scheme and website too!) I also thought of all the lessons learned and hopefully wisdom gained, both personally and institutionally. At an institutional level, St Barnabas College has had to remain agile, flexible, and innovative in the everchanging theological education sector. This has been challenging at times, because balancing the needs of academic studies vis-à-vis those of transformative ministry training and formation requires constant attention and care. And finding ways to offer learning opportunities in Theology and Scripture for people across the Diocese means we’ve had to build our capacity to deliver creative and relevant content. Such challenges will remain.

At a personal level, I want to acknowledge and thank by name four very special people: Liz my wife, and our children, Tayah, Rhianna, and Jaden. They have been more impacted by St Barnabas College than just about anyone, even though none of them has enrolled! And though this impact at times has been tough, we have come to love Adelaide dearly and our decision to remain here as a family after I conclude as Principal brings us much joy. It’s a big change for us at many levels and the continuity of friendships and schools and the Anglican community here is very important and a gift to us. We are very much looking forward to the next season of life that our good God will bring us.

and Greek), and how all the parts of this story fit together, and how the story is refracted through culture and yet also responds to the pressing issues each context poses. And so, each generation in its own way must nurture its theologians: those (at times peculiar creatures!) amongst us who devote themselves to pondering the most important questions about the most important matters that there are.

And, finally, I thought of the future of St Barnabas College.

And one of the reasons I love Anglicanism is that it “gets” this, and it gets that this pondering, this nurturing, this vocatio, is undertaken in the midst of a community immersed in prayer, in Eucharist, in mission, and, no less, in suffering. And it gets that, in a very real sense, this calling is undertaken by us all, theologians large and small.

It remains my firm belief that theological education is vital to the future of the church and its mission. Each generation of Christians, be they priests or poets or potters or public servants, must relearn the grand story of God (and some must learn it in Hebrew

Thus it is my firm belief that we will always need places like St Barnabas College. And well might one believe, given the unfolding calamities of the twenty-first century, that theological colleges like St Barnabas College are needed more now than ever before.

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The Ordination Of Women To The Priesthood: 25 Years On by Julia Denny-Dimitriou It has been 25 years since the Most Rev’d Dr Ian George presided over the historic ordination of five women to the priesthood on December 5th 1992 in St Peter’s Cathedral.

… the first ordination to the priesthood of women in Australia since the way was formally cleared for women priests by the Anglican Church’s General Synod in Sydney on November 21.”

Dismissing objections from parts of the Diocese, Archbishop George went on with the ceremony and ordained the Rev’ds Joan Claring-Bould, Sister Juliana SI (Sisters of the Incarnation), Flo Monahan, Sue Pain and Susan Straub. Also ordained were the Rev’ds Michael Austin, Peter Brown, Richard Hayman and Paul Hunt.

Twenty-five years to the day, in a celebration to mark the occasion, three of the original five women – the Rev’ds Joan Claring-Bould, Sister Juliana SI and Susan Straub – concelebrated with the current Archbishop of Adelaide, The Most Rev’d Geoffrey Smith, at a service in St John the Evangelist Church, Halifax Street.

The Sunday Mail of December 6th reported: “Almost 1 000 people crammed into the Cathedral to witness

In addition to objectors, this occasion lacked other elements present in the original service. The Sunday Mail noted

then that there were plainclothes police in the congregation and bag searches and emphasised the tension and stress “evident in the faces” of the women. Now retired, Sister Juliana SI said: “It was a very stressful time. We had to prepare for ordination without knowing if it would go ahead. First we had to wait for the General Synod resolution. Then we knew there would be objections, but we didn’t know if there would be a confrontation or how that would play out. The final night before the ordination was particularly tense.” Describing the ordination service, the Rev’d Susan Straub, now retired, has vivid memories of “a wonderful, affirming experience after the stress of

Left to Right: Rev’d Susan Straub, Rev’d Joan Claring-Bould, Peter Burdon, Most Rev’d Geoffrey Smith, Rev’d Janet Phillips, Sister Juliana SI

the previous few days: Processing out of the Cathedral through balloons and streamers raining down from the gallery, purple, white and green, the colours of MOW, the Movement for the Ordination of Women.

that has improved with women being in charge of parishes now. Though, I must say I was blessed in the [male] priests with whom I was Associate Priest in the respect and autonomy they gave me. But perhaps women are still underrepresented in senior positions, even after 25 years.”

“People now can barely remember a time when there weren’t women priests, but then it was very new.” The Rev’d Joan Claring-Bould of Christ Church North Adelaide said: “I think this time it’s important to acknowledge the men who were ordained with us. At the time, they were overshadowed by the historical nature of the occasion. They were very gracious. They spent a sleepless night with us before the service because of the expected objections and they bore the brunt of that stress with us. They were very supportive and have remained good friends.” Commenting on the role of women priests after 25 years, Sister Juliana SI said: “In the early days, it was difficult for women priests to find properlypaid work or you would have ministry in two or three different places. But

The Rev’d Claring-Bould said: “There are still places at both ends of the ecclesiastical spectrum where women don’t go: High church and Evangelical. On the whole, they have done a wonderful job in country parishes and in the city. In the city, I really appreciate the complementarity of teams of women and men working together, I think that’s a great advantage.” The Rev’d Straub said: “For a few years there were those who stayed away or crossed over to another queue to take Communion from a man. However, I am full of thanks to be able to say ‘Thy will be done’ and to have been able to play a part in the great unfolding story of faith in God through Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

ADELAIDE DIOCESE BY THE NUMBERS 2017

1992

Male

131

Female

8 deacons

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

2+5 honorary

Female

CLERGY**

BISHOPS

ARCHDEACONS

AREA DEANS

CANONS

** Active clergy only, Retired and Permission to Officiate not included Sources: 1991-1992 Diocese of Adelaide Year Book; 2017 Diocese of Adelaide Synod Papers; Diocese of Adelaide

Left: Susan Straub’s ordination to the priesthood in 1992. Top right: Joan Claring-Bould celebrates her Ordination. Bottom right: Joan at her 25 year celebration service.

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Meet This Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ordinands!

St Peter's Cathedral held the 2017 Ordination Service on Saturday 25 November. Mark Peterson from St Augustine's Unley and Karl Forsyth from Trinity Inner South were Priested, while Wendy Morecroft from St Philip's Somerton Park was Deaconed. It was a wonderful occasion to acknowledge the gifts of God amongst His people and a chance for the Diocese to gather in support and celebration.

Mark Peterson St Augustine’s Unley

t is a wonderful mercy of God to be able to participate in the ministry of the gospel of Christ, which, through his power alone, reconciles people with their Creator. At a recent ministry retreat, these 2 ideas from 2 Corinthians 4 and 5 gave me a profound comfort as well as an uncomfortable urgency. Prior to my ordination to Deacon last December, I was serving as Music Director at Holy Trinity Adelaide. Since then, I have been Associate Minister at St Augustine’s Unley, and I am loving it. As I embark on this new calling of ministry, I am challenged yet again with both the mercy of God and the opportunity to make his salvation known. I have been involved in full time vocational ministry for 13 years now. And yet the last 12 months have in some ways sharpened my sense of what needs to be done.

Mark and Ally Peterson

Christ truly is this world’s only hope. I am challenged with the need to win them over through loving them and pointing them to how amazing Jesus is, to pray continually, to keep God’s words constantly on my lips, and remember the long-term nature of ministry. But who is up to this task? I am certainly aware that I am a “clay jar”. What a privilege it is that he uses us as his ambassadors!

Karl Forsyth Trinity Inner South

or me, it all became serious at university. Although I’d been raised in a Christian home and had always known Jesus as my Lord and Saviour, it was while at university that what that meant really hit home. It was there, as a member of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, that the storyline of the bible began to make sense. I was captured by the simplicity of the gospel message and intricacy of how the bible told, retold, and underscored that Good News message. It was also at university that I was encouraged to think about the implications of the gospel message. How would I tell others the good news that Jesus is Lord? For me, that meant considering a life of vocational Christian ministry.

Meredith, Karl and Hamish Forsyth

It was also at university that I met Meredith. We would go on to get married and today we have four children. Jemima (2008), Piper (2011), Fergus (2013) and Hamish (2016).

Although I knew that I wanted to eventually work in vocational Christian ministry, I began my working life as an engineer, seeking and gaining some formational real-life experiences. I began theological study, in 2010, at the Bible College of South Australia transferring to Ridley College in Melbourne, where I finished my theological training. After that I held ministry roles at St Jude’s Parkville and Christ Church Warrnambool. I am currently the Associate Pastor at Trinity Inner South. God willing in 2018, I will start a new church in Unley. Called Trinity Church Unley, my desire for this church is that it would be a place that makes and grows disciples of Jesus for God’s glory and for the benefit of our community.

Wendy Morecroft St Philip’s Somerton Park

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am a cradle Anglican, born in 1961 in Port Pirie to Bev and John Clark. I have been married to Andrew Morecroft since 1981. Our children are Sarah Raymond and Christopher Morecroft, our son-inlaw is Chris Raymond, our daughter-in-law is Haley Morecroft and we have 2 3/4-year-old granddaughter Zoe Raymond. Our daughter is pregnant with twin boys due to be delivered before Christmas. Andrew and I live on 10 acres of bushland in Crafers West in a mudbrick house that we owner-built in 1992. I have had several roles as a Sales Rep or Sales Manager over 25 years, mostly in the printing industry, but I resigned in May 2016 to focus on my Bachelor of Theology, which I have been studying part-time since 2011, and my Formation for Ministry. Together, Andrew and I enjoy time with our family and friends, entertaining, hiking, camping, skiing, gardening, and Latin & Ballroom Dancing.

Archbishop Geoff Smith prays for Wendy Morecroft

I am passionate about spreading the Gospel and creating caring communities. I am delighted to be joining the ministry team at St Peter’s Cathedral as the Assistant Curate.”

Walford Anglican School for Girls unveiled the newly restored Reed House at a special Junior School Assembly on Thursday 9 November. The school had been undertaking a heritage restoration of Reed House across 2017. Reed House was originally built in 1854 and prior to it becoming part of Walford School it was the Unley Private Hospital. School Principal Rebecca Clarke said, “This is an important building in the history of the school and also in the Unley community.” “We’ve re-roofed it, completely brought the bluestone back to original heritage, the veranda is all new. It needed a lot of care and love.” “We engaged some heritage architects, as there were strict parameters, and it was really carefully project managed by an old scholar.”

As well as being managed by an old scholar, another past student, Libby Robertson was asked to cut the ribbon at the ceremony after it was discovered that she was also born in the hospital, “It was really quite emotional –being that I was born here in this building, then to be cutting it to start its new life was very symbolic for me.” “I think it’s wonderful to see that they’ve kept the old building, but it’s going to become part of the new.” Principal Clarke was thrilled to have Libby involved in the event’s proceedings, “I think it’s important because, in a school like Walford, which is 125 years old in 2018, what we enjoy today is the result of what people sacrificed yesterday. So when Libby comes back, she’s an old scholar, she was born in the hospital, and she taught at the school, so she’s the living example of how you give and get much in return, such as a space like this.”

Rev’d Tracey Gracey addresses students at Walford Junior School assembly Libby Robertson cuts the ribbon at the official opening of the new Reed House

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Reed House Restored To Former Glory

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EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP People in financial hardship across the Copper Coast now have access to emergency assistance services through the AnglicareSA Wallaroo Emergency Assistance Centre, which will be officially opened on Wednesday 6 December. The Wallaroo Emergency Assistance Centre provides a friendly face to those experiencing financial difficulties. Our team will be on hand to assist and identify the best way to help; either by providing access to pantry items, supermarket vouchers or clothing assistance or connecting with them with other services. AnglicareSA CEO Peter Sandeman said the Centre, which is a collaboration between AnglicareSA, the Diocese of

Willochra and the Parish of Copper Coast, was a much needed service. “This region has a higher than average proportion of the population living in financial hardship,” he said. “AnglicareSA sees first-hand the impact of financial stress on people’s wellbeing. Families need to make choices: do they pay the electricity bill, or register the car, or buy shoes for the children, or keep food in the pantry? “The high cost of electricity and groceries, transport limitations, unemployment and health issues are all major contributors of people seeking Emergency Assistance in this area. “Together with the Diocese of Willochra and the Parish of the Copper Coast,

AnglicareSA looks forward to building on existing local partnerships to support and improve the lives of people from across the region.” AnglicareSA has been delivering emergency relief across the Copper Coast since March 2015. In the financial year to June 2017, it assisted 122 households in the region. Across South Australia AnglicareSA’s Emergency Assistance programs have assisted more than 8,000 households on 13,000 occasions in the past year. The AnglicareSA Wallaroo Emergency Assistance Centre is located in the St Mary’s Anglican Church Hall, corner of Hughes and Church Streets, Wallaroo. The Centre is open Wednesdays and Fridays from 10am to 12pm.

Multi-Cultural Jamboree For All Saints St Peter’s Cathedral hosted a multi-cultural jamboree for All Saints Day on Sunday 5 November 2017. The Jamboree was a celebration of the increasingly multicultural nature of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide. Despite some inclement weather those who made it out were treated to an afternoon of food, fun, and entertainment culminating in a glorious Choral Evensong. Attendees were encouraged to dress in ethnic/national costume, and guests had the opportunity to enjoy an array of food stalls, music and cultural dancing.

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Special performances: On Monday night the One50 Dance team will perform for us. One50 is all about creating a positive space for young people to be inspired, build friendships and learn and perform incredible dance moves! They have clubs all over Adelaide. On Tuesday night, Adelaide Christian band Men in Boats will perform and share stories and testimonies. Check them out on Facebook.

SALISBURY YOUTH CONFERENCE hosted by Salisbury Anglican Church is a new initiative for 2018 seeking to use the facilities and contacts of Salisbury Anglican Church to be a blessing to youth in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. Conference Director Rev’d Ben Cosford’s vision for the event is to see youth from a wide variety of Christian churches coming along to be encouraged in their faith, and being able to bring their friends to clearly meet Jesus. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes” Romans 1:16

Details: Two full days from 9:30am 9:30pm on Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd January 2018 The Conference Speaker is Rev Dave MacGillivray, Senior Chaplain at Trinity College Gawler. He is an outdoor enthusiast, actor, coffee lover, married to Beth and father of two young daughters. He is always engaging and Biblically faithful, challenging youth in areas that are very current and need speaking to. He will be speaking on the theme of “True North - navigating life well with Jesus” There will also be workshops on a range of topics looking at areas like identity in Christ, the joys and dangers of social media, dealing with depression and anxiety and navigating life well.

Please note the registration costs and cut off dates below

Early Bird - $55 - Cut off Dec 15 Standard - $65 - Cut off Dec 31 Late Rego - $75 - Cut off Jan 15 All registration is online If you have any questions please send them to Rev’d Ben Cosford Conference Director Associate Minister at Salisbury Anglican Church. salisburyyouthconference@gmail.com or call on 0403412225

CMS Farewells Branch Director After eleven years with CMS, David Williams is moving on from the role of Regional Director SANT. Katy Smith will be taking up the reigns of new Regional Director SANT in January 2018 and will be commissioned at Summer Encounter – January 18-20 at Edwardstown Baptist Church. David said of his move into retirement, “I’ll be spending my time between our two grandchildren, home renovations and a new career: tree climbing! That is, as a professional arborist.”

Former SANT Branch President The Venerable David Bassett commended David on a job well done, “We are very thankful for David’s care of the society and his work towards making it a strong society by helping to increase the numbers of gospel workers that we have serving across the world.” An informal farewell BBQ is being held for David on Saturday, January 27, 5pm-8pm at Holy Trinity hall, Corner of North Terrace & Morphett St, Adelaide, with car parking available at the back of the church. RSVP: sa@cms.org.au Gold coin donation to cover costs.

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New Youth Conference Heading True North

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God In Australian Literature A.D. Hope wrote, in his famous poem Australia, that he hoped that it was ‘still from the deserts that the prophets do come’. I love this line because it speaks of biblical prophets raising their ‘voices in the desert’: Moses, Elijah, Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul in the Arabian Desert, and it speaks of St Anthony and the wisdom of all the desert fathers and mothers. But, it also speaks of Australia, a land which has been understood as hard soil to the seeds of Christianity. Hope’s vision suggests we might look to those who live in the difficult places in our country for wisdom. To the deserts, to the detainees, to the deep wisdom of Aboriginal people; to learn from those who have, ahead of us, learned some of the lessons that this land has to teach us. In a related literary move, Peter Carey’s novel Oscar and Lucinda tries Christianity out in colonial Australia. In this novel it comes to Australia in the unlikely hands of an awkward couple. Oscar, the young minister, made his way through his studies on the proceeds of gambling and this is also his truth and faith. Quoting the theology of Pascal,

Oscar tells Lucinda, ‘We bet that there is a God. We bet our life on it.’ In one poignant scene from the film based on the novel, Oscar is transported along a river inside a glass church the couple are taking inland. They are ‘betting’ on there being a God, they are living with the precariousness of faith and even life itself in outback Australia. There is also an idea here of the Christian person being seen, being vulnerable, and being what people look at in Australia, even as traditional church buildings become transparent in the harsh Australian light. Les Murray, one of Australia’s finest poets, also knows this Australian taste for authenticity, especially in matters relating to religion. He knows that it’s the person inside the ritual and the theoretical that matters here, perhaps, more than anywhere on earth. Murray offers us many insights, among them — ‘God is the poetry caught in any religion’ and ‘on the end wall hangs the gospel before he was a book.’ These and many more insights about what it means to be a person of faith in Australia can be explored through reading Australian literature together.

St Saviour’s Glen Osmond invite you to come and enjoy an evening of wine and cheese, discussion of great literature, and to be introduced to the God Australians have come to know. Topics will include Where is God When it Hurts? — Tim Winton’s The Riders It’s OK to Doubt — Reading Patrick White and Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda God of Small Things — poetry and painting Michael Leunig, Les Murray, Paul Kelly, and Albert Namatjera When: The first Tuesday in February, March and April 7:30pm Where: ‘The Meeting Room’ St Saviour’s Anglican Church, 2 Pridmore Rd, Glen Osmond. Contact: Dave McDougall revdave.mcdougall@bigpond.com 0447 307 386

Australian Anglican Deacons Conference To Descend Upon Adelaide The Australian Anglican Diaconal Association (AADA) will meet for their Biennial National Conference from Sunday 8 April to Thursday 12 April 2018, at St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide.

The theme of the conference will be "Walking Sacraments" and guest speakers will include Rev’d Rosalind Brown from Durham Cathedral and author of Being a Deacon Today and

Can Words Express our Wonder?, and Rev’d Dr. Matthew Anstey, Principal of St Barnabas College, Adelaide. The AADA unites and supports Australian Anglican Diaconal workers in fellowship, ministry development and engagement in the wider church. Membership of the AADA is open to all Anglican Deacons, Deaconesses, and fully-trained diaconal workers holding a Bishop’s licence. For further information on the conference mail to: aadaconference@gmail.com To find out more about The Australian Anglican Diaconal Association go to: aussiedeacons.org.au

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.” happen in our lives. Then to have the film show the value of male friendship that does not contain a hidden agenda was refreshing. Friendships are essential in life, but in our modern society, we have done more harm than good in the raising of boys. Showing that boys have different ways of communicating and relating, these connections are critical in their development. These elements moved Wonder from being another ‘good for you’ film to an exceptional family choice for the season. The book by R. J. Palacio is meant to be a lesson for children around the world to be kind to others, but there is something more profound to this New York Times Bestseller. It is a testimony to all of the families who have the unique blessing to have family members who are born with different physical conditions that bring about stares and judgement from others. Wonder is not merely a tale of a child with a disability or deformity, but a glimpse into the multi-faceted impact it has on the lives of everyone in the family. August “Auggie” Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) was born with Treacher Collins syndrome, and despite enduring numerous surgeries, he still lives with multiple facial deformities. His mother Isabel (Julia Roberts) has homeschooled him for the first few years of his life, but his parents decide it is time for him to enter school at year five. His new principal tries to help Auggie to adapt to the school by introducing him to some of his classmates before the term, but nothing can adequately prepare him for the other students’ responses to his condition. As he travels through this new season of his life, he becomes the centre of the story, but director Stephen Chbosky (Perks of Being A Wallflower) manages to shows what effect it is to be a person in Auggie’s relational orbit. What is striking about this story is that the central character is born with a physical deformity, but the film is not

about the condition. Palacio’s story takes us through the different layers of how situations like these in our lives do not happen in a vacuum. Watching the narrative unfold on the screen provides an appreciation for families who strive to make the most of the challenges that come into their lives. The cast and writing do help to help this journey move beyond a mere ‘after-school special.’ Despite the antibullying campaigns that may coincide with the release of the film, the final product is a good film. Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson play to their strengths as actors and show what has helped to make them into household names, but these are not the roles to celebrate. Ever since his performance in Room, Jacob Tremblay is proving to be the latest child sensation in the industry. Even though he is unrecognisable, his performance is noteworthy and will be sure to grab the hearts of audiences. Another performance of note is Izabela Vidovic who portrays Auggie’s sister Via, who is another actor to keep an eye on in the years to come. The overt message of caring for humanity despite the package they may arrive into this world in, is hard to miss, but the secondary topics of discussion that can come from this film are just as valuable. The importance of family is critical within the structure of the storyline, especially that everyone has a part to play in the different things that

‘A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.’ - Proverbs 18:24 What show I know as a parent before going into Wonder? The only warning that would be associated with film is it dealing with bullying situations. It is a confronting storyline, but it is accessible to all in the family. Even though this film is worth sending your children to see, it would even be better for parents to attend the screening with their child. This is a marvellous opportunity to engage with your child and discuss life’s difficulties, how we respond to them and the means of helping others.

reviews written by Russell Matthews based on a five star rating. http://russellingreveiws.blogspot.com.au

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Film Review: Wonder