by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
In this issue we look at what Australian Quakers are doing in the world and at home. At one level their field of activity is small-scale. They are teaching permaculture in Iraq, teaching sign language to children in Tajikistan, and through QSA they are supporting...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
Rowe Morrow, New South Wales Regional Meeting In a refugee camp in Iraq, people are preparing to return to their home city of Mosul which they fled when it was heavily bombed last year. With them, after a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) they will be taking new...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
David and Kirsten O’Halloran, Tasmania Regional Meeting One of my favourite passages in the “Red Book” is the following reflection from Deborah Haines (1978): “I think I have wasted a great deal of my life waiting to be called to some great mission which would change...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
Ai Leen Quah, African Project Manager Hardly six months have passed since St Jude Family Projects set foot in Lyantonde, western Uganda, and already there is a tangible feeling of community and friendship amongst these women. They sing together whilst they are...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
Barrie Pittock I came in touch with Quakers when called up for National Service Training in 1956. I was brought up attending a Presbyterian Sunday school, but came into conflict with the minister over the fact that Jesus said to “love your enemies”, yet Scots Church...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
Cathy Davies, New South Wales regional Meeting About a year or so after Garry Duncan and I were asked if we would help set up the Australian Quaker Tapestry Project I asked Garry how many panels he thought we should create. I was thinking perhaps ten or so, but...
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