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Russell Brown: just another year

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Alison Atkinson-Phillips

For Perth film maker Russell Brown, 2007 has been a milestone year. He has completed his first feature-length documentary, Seven Days, attended a packed “world premiere” screening, seen it nominated for a host of awards both locally and internationally, and scored his first commercial distribution deal.

 

Defender of God's creation

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Meera Atkinson

John Williams is a renowned Australian water scientist who has dedicated his life to the study of hydrology, land salinity, and the use of water in agriculture. He has served as Chief of Division of Land and Water for CSIRO and Commissioner of NSW Natural Resources Commission.

 

Life after Larry

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Meera Atkinson 

Cyclones have been the motif of Rev Glenn Louttit’s ministry. Having progressed from youth worker to lay pastor to Gympie minister for five years, Glenn received an email out of left field one day asking him to consider at placement at Innisfail Uniting Church.

 

A witness to transformation

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When people commit a crime and go to jail, what is the Christian response? According to prison chaplain, Beatriz Skippen, it should be to look for the opportunity for transformation. “All of us make mistakes,” says Beatriz. “It’s easy to say oh, they’re just bad people. But God transforms us. God has performed miracles before.”

 

Community in a digital age

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Alison Atkinson-Phillips

Adrian (Age) Greenwood is the founder of MorePraxis, an online community aimed at supporting young adults who “long for a more interconnected Christian spirituality". As the name suggests, the site is focused on an action/reflection model, where the personal is political and so is the spiritual.

 

Getting on with giving

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Andrew Hutchins is a resident of Cremorne - one of Sydney’s exclusive Harborside suburbs. At 56, he was financially comfortable enough to retire early, but not yet ready to “put his feet up and relax.” So Andrew began volunteering at Edward Eagar Lodge, a crisis accommodation facility run by Wesley Mission in Sydney’s Surry Hills. That was 11 years ago.

 

Looking behind closed doors

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Tiffany Rochester decided to become a psychologist at the age of 13. Even before that she knew she wanted to help people but when she herself experienced the rocky road of adolescence, a terrain she safely navigated thanks to the support and inspiration she herself was given, she realised she wanted to make a career out of returning that in kind to future generations of young people.

 

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