Anglican Youth, Children and Families

Exciting news came my way back in October last year (2018): Queensland was bringing back a beverage container refund scheme!   When I was a lad, way back when, you could take bottles back to your local corner shop and get a whole five cents each for them. Then you could go to the Ekka or a big sporting event, and literally climb into the rubbish bins with a big Glad bag to fill up with aluminium cans, making millions… or maybe a couple of dollars anyway. The message back then was pretty simple: if you could make the time and effort to go around and find bottles and cans to collect, you could make decent money out of the exercise, keep the environment free of rubbish, and good luck to you. So now the hands on the clock have gone full circle and people like you and I have the opportunity to generate a small income stream from beverage containers in Queensland once again. But is it worth doing? What follows are my thoughts on what I have discovered so far. 1. Opportunities t

The Most Reverend Dr Phillip Aspinall has released his New Year message, introducing this year's theme of 'Generous Hospitality'. His message, which you can watch here , is a good one to ponder on and a great next step after a year of exploring what 'Generations Together' could mean for us as a Church. In light of this message, I decided to set myself the challenge of doing some reading and research to pull together a range of different ideas and inspirations on this very theme. Hopefully they can inspire you to think about how your Parish, School, or Ministry can reflect generous hospitality in the things that you do. So below, I've come up with one idea each for Intergenerational, Children, Youth, Young Adults, and Families ministries. It is my hope that these ideas can inspire you and if you do end up doing one of the ideas below - please share them with us, as we love to hear about all the exciting things that you are doing! And for those of you who