December 2005
Issue 24, Number 11 PP 565 001/00190 ISSN 0726-2612
Some great tastes for Christmas DRIED APRICOTS and apricots covered with chocolate were on sale during the SA Presbytery and Synod meeting last month. The meeting was at the Royal Adelaide Showground. Dried and chocolate covered fruit – and fresh oranges – are now available through several Uniting Churches in Adelaide. Some fruit growers have been dumping some of their produce. The project also raises money for International Mission medical projects on Numfor Island, Papua, Indonesia. Several churches in different parts of Adelaide have agreed to act as depots. Other local congregations can pick up produce from them. Fresh fruit and vegetables should be available soon. An order form is on the Synod website. There are also more details about what produce is available – and about the International Mission projects being helped. More information is available from Graeme Cavanagh, of Waikerie Uniting Church, email almostorganic@hotkey. net.au” or Lyn Leane of the Synod office, email lyn@sa.uca.org.au
Lyn Leane and Graeme Cavanagh with some of the dried fruit and chocolate covered apricots.
inside… A plea for clemency
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It’s all about mission
3
Concern over IR laws
3
Meetings at glance
4
A slimmer church
6
The new networks
7
Zimbabwe: churches help
10
Aerosol art
13
…and a great message, too
ABOVE LEFT: This is the card being used in the Uniting Church SA’s 2005 Christmas campaign. More than 150,000 of the cards will be distributed across the state this month. There’s a story on page 2. ABOVE RIGHT: This Christmas card, “New Life,” is taken from the newly completed mural at the Port Adelaide Uniting Church. Other panels from the mural are being used on greeting cards. There’s a story on page 11.
Please hand out at your church door