Nicole Reardon
Rev Lekima Gonerau is a prison chaplain for the Methodist Church in Fiji. He counsels prisoners who have been cut off from their families, communities and loved ones, helping them heal and regain a sense of belonging.
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Food, shelter and water are not the only necessities of life. To be denied the chance to learn or to suffer emotional distress when family and friends can't offer encouragement and empowerment, may be defined as poverty. Melissa Scoular regularly encounters children from across NSW who suffer these forms of poverty. 
Sometimes distance is felt most when, after returning home from an overseas adventure, a person experiences culture shock in their own country and realises they’ve been forever changed by their time away. 
The role of ordained ministers is something that is not well understood. The stereotype tends to be a fairly conservative male figure, lacking in humour and with little understanding of ‘how the world works'. Apart from being male, Rev Allan Mackenzie couldn’t be more different, but he has found that this particular cap is one that fits him well.
Val Murphy is a potato-farmer and a Christian, who lives and works in south-east Victoria. Val runs tours of the farming district and tells how, some years ago, the small community of Thorpedale grew spuds to raise money for a new church.
If you didn’t know where to look, you could easily walk past the frosted glass windows signalling the entranceway to UnitingCare’s Medically Supervised Injection Clinic (MSIC) in King’s Cross, Sydney. With its clean, discreet access, few would suspect this site holds one of the most controversial and successful drug injection clinics in Australia.
