I am so excited about working with the Secondary Education students this year, and I am especially excited to work with the the student committee heading them up! Apart from being wonderful, they are also very creative! Check out this video we made at our planning days away:

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This year I am actually paying more attention to Lent than I normally do. I've concocted a reading plan to take me through to Easter Sunday, and will hopefully help me to mull over the significance of what Jesus did through his death and resurrection. I am already a couple of weeks in, but I thought I would share it so that ( Read more... )

We've been living in Newtown for nearly three weeks now and it's starting to feel like home ( Read more... )

Pause for a breath ( Read more... )

It's less than a week until I start my new job and a new surprise has reared its head ( Read more... )

Christmas was lovely this year. We got to spend wonderful quality time with friends and family, including family who we don't always see. In the middle of it all, on the 23rd, was a strong and wonderful reminder of why we celebrate Christmas at all and how gracious God is to us. I am very thankful to him that I have made it to Epiphany feeling ( Read more... )

Happy new year from sunny Currarong!


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At 5:30pm on Friday I rolled out of the Anglicare driveway for the last time, with my car full of flowers, canisters of tea and the contents of my desk. John, the best supervisor in the universe, was waving me goodbye and I had all the saddest songs I know playing in my head ( Read more... )

My little brother is flying to America this week to follow his new girlfriend home and spend Christmas with her. We had a partial family Christmas celebration to make up for missing Christmas Day with him ( Read more... )

I love singing, but I'm not particularly good at it. One of my favourite places to sing is in the car by myself. When it's late at night or early in the morning, whether it's been a long and horrible day or a day of celebration, regardless of my mood I will always be up for singing in the car ( Read more... )