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In our final episode for this season, Charlene and Craig hear the profound theological and practical insights of Graeme Turner and Joseph Pinkard, from CBM Australia. Graeme shares his lived experience as they both unpack what it means for all to be invited to the table. Have you noticed? Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
Today's episode tells the story of emptying yourself to find yourself, in Part 2 of the conversation with previous Surrender Directors, Nick and Anita Wight. We hear the journey of developing flourishing relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the impact on the way they live their lives. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
In this episode, Nick and Anita Wight (previous Surrender Directors), talk about their 'great undoing' and Surrender's formative years. We hear the journey of developing flourishing relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the impact on the way they live their lives. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
We hear about Anji's new book, "Missionary is not just a position" and other learnings from a life of radical surrender in part 2 of Charlene and Craig's catch up with Ash and Anji Barker. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
This episode is full of stories of radical surrender as Charlene and Craig catch up with Ash and Anji Barker. They tell the founding story of Urban Neighbours of Hope (UNOH) and Surrender, talk about becoming neighbours in a Bangkok slum, and now life as urban missionaries in the UK at Winson Green, an inner city Birmingham public housing estate to seek transformation through Jesus there. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
Today's episode is Part 2 of our conversation with Aunty Shirli Congoo (General Manager) and Aunty Sue Hodges (Engagement Officer) from the Salvation Army's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander team. We explore the personal side of reconciliation, the place of Jesus' redemption, and the application of their cultural competency framework. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
Aunty Shirli Congoo (General Manager) and Aunty Sue Hodges (Engagement Officer) are part of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander team in the Salvation Army. In this episode they share a journey of indigenous engagement that includes all levels of the Salvos, from board to frontline ministry leaders; and the development of the cultural awareness framework and Reconciliation Action Plan. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
Tri Nguyen shares his profound story of fleeing Vietnam, seeking refuge, and finding family at a local church in Melbourne. Tri shared this at a Surrender leader's event recently and has graciously allowed us to include it in our podcast here. As we consider the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, this story is a challenging reminder to the roles that we can, and need to play – and a pointer to what the Kingdom of God looks like. We encourage you to join the Australian call on our national leaders to provide urgent action for the wellbeing of refugees from Afghanistan. Take action at surrender.org.au.
Is there enough? Are people good? Can we do anything about everything? Charlene and Craig join the World Vision pastor's cohort to hear from CEO Daniel Wordsworth, who shares stories about meeting Mother Theresa and draws from experience with over 25 years in the world's conflict hot spots. Daniel has lived and worked with the urban poor in Australia, Hong Kong, China, India, Vietnam and Thailand and has written numerous publications on children and poverty. Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
Jo and Ash host a conversation about hearing God's heartbeat, from the Surrender mini-festival earlier this year. We hear the voices of Stevie Wills (performance poet and community education officer with CBM Australia), Brendan Nottle (Salvation Army Major and leader of Melbourne's Project 614), and Glenn Loughrey (Wiradjuri man, artist, Anglican Priest and vicar at St Oswalds). Have you heard? Have you seen? Have you noticed? Have you Surrendered? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. We invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au.
Carrying on from the first episode, Charlene Delos Santos and Craig Petty hear perspectives on marginalisation with Dave Andrews and Uncle Ray Minniecon helping us to explore the topic of marginalisation and continue to be challenged in the conversation about what it takes to put Jesus in the centre. We want to embody a lifestyle of justice. SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives, we invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au
Charlene and Craig hear perspectives on marginalisation from Uncle Ray Minniecon and Dave Andrews. What does it take to place Jesus in the centre? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. Find them and take action at surrender.org.au Pastor Ray Minniecon Pastor Ray Minniecon is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation and the Gurang Gurang nation of South-East Queensland. Pastor Ray is also a descendant of the South Sea Islander people with deep and abiding connections to the people of Ambrym Island. Pastor Ray ministers at St John's Church in Sydney, is a resource worker for the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, honorary pastor at St. John's Scarred Tree Ministry in Glebe and Director of Bunji Consultancies. He was a former National Director of World Vision Australia's Indigenous programs. Pastor Ray has a BA in Theology from Murdoch University and assisted in the establishment of Aboriginal studies and employment programs at that university. Dave Andrews Dave Andrews, his wife Ange, and their family, have lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised groups of people in Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal for more than forty years. He now lives in a large joint household with his wife, children, grandchildren and others in an inner city community in Brisbane. Dave is particularly interested in radical spirituality, incarnational community and the dynamics of personal and social transformation.
The studies will explore what these highly contentious and hotly contested words (along with their promises and problems) mean for Aboriginal Peoples embodying the way of Jesus Christ
The studies will explore what these highly contentious and hotly contested words (along with their promises and problems) mean for Aboriginal peoples embodying the way of Jesus Christ
The studies will explore what these highly contentious and hotly contested words (along with their promises and problems mean for Aboriginal Peoples embodying the way of Jesus Christ
The studies will explore what these highly contentious and hotly contested words (along with their promises and problems) mean for Aboriginal Peoples embodying the way of Jesus Christ.
The studies will explore what these highly contentious and hotly contested words (along with their promises and problems) mean for Aboriginal Peoples embodying the way of Jesus Christ.
The studies will explore what these highly contentious and hotly contested words (along with their promises and problems) mean for Aboriginal Peoples embodying the way of Jesus Christ.
To reflect on disability is to explore the limitation, vulnerability, dependency, and creative power that is central to every human life. We are born utterly dependent, at every point in life we are at risk of illness and a disability. This series of the bible studies invites participants to look at the Bible through the lens of disability
To re ect on disability is to explore the limitation, vulnerability, dependency, and creative power that is central to every human life. We are born utterly dependent, at every point in life we are at risk of illness and a disabling injury, and old age itself is a form of disability. This series of Bible studies invites participants to look at the Bible through the lens of disability.
To reflect on disability is to explore the limitation, vulnerability, dependency, and creative power that is central to every human life. We are born utterly dependent, at every point in life we are at risk of illness and a disability. This series of the bible studies invites participants to look at the Bible through the lens of disability
To re ect on disability is to explore the limitation, vulnerability, dependency, and creative power that is central to every human life. We are born utterly dependent, at every point in life we are at risk of illness and a disabling injury, and old age itself is a form of disability. This series of Bible studies invites participants to look at the Bible through the lens of disability.
To reflect on disability is to explore the limitation, vulnerability, dependency, and creative power that is central to every human life. We are born utterly dependent, at every point in life we are at risk of illness and a disability. This series of the bible studies invites participants to look at the Bible through the lens of disability
To reflect on disability is to explore the limitation, vulnerability, dependency, and creative power that is central to every human life. We are born utterly dependent, at every point in life we are at risk of illness and a disabling injury, and old age itself is a form of disability. This series of Bible studies invites participants to look at the Bible through the lens of disability.
Where Wendell Berry's wisdom meets the timeless insights of scriptural - How do we inhabit our personhood, our shared humanity, and out place with a sense of profound connection.
Where Wendell Berry’s wisdom meets the timeless insights of Scripture - How do we inhabit our personhood, our shared humanity, and our place with a sense of profound connection.
Where Wendell Berry's wisdom meets the timeless insights of scripture - How do we inhabit out personhood, our shared humanity, and our place with a sense of profound connection.
Where Wendell Berry’s wisdom meets the timeless insights of Scripture - How do we inhabit our personhood, our shared humanity, and our place with a sense of profound connection.
Where Wendell Berry's wisdom meets the timeless insights of Scripture - How do we inhabit our personhood, our shared humanity, and our place with a sense of profound connection.
Where Wendell Berry’s wisdom meets the timeless insights of Scripture - How do we inhabit our personhood, our shared humanity, and our place with a sense of profound connection.
Where there are programs they will flounder, where there are services they will cease, where there is ministry it will pass away. But love: Love never fails
Where there are programs they will flounder, where there are services they will cease, where there is ministry it will pass away. But love: Love never fails.
Where there are programs they will flounder, where there are services they will cease, where there is ministry it will pass away. But love: Love never fails.
Where there are programs they will flounder, where there are services they will cease, where there is ministry it will pass away. But love: Love never fails.
Russell shares his learning on curating worship events, creating stations and reflection spaces anchoring around the idea of communal worship for one.
Russell shares his learnings on curating worship events, creating stations and reflection spaces anchoring around the idea of communal worship for one.
What does it mean to live as neighbours in a global village with new people in developing countries? We discuss what it means to love people, to learn how to act justly and love mercy in a global context.
What does it mean to live as neighbours in a global village with people in developing countries. They discuss what it means to love people, to learn how to act justly and love mercy in a global context.
Where there are programs they will flounder, where there are services they will cease, where there is a ministry it will pass away. But love: Love never fails.
How understanding and interegrating our identity as men to our ability to walk alongside others as God has designed us to
Where there are programs they will flounder, where there are services they will cease, where there is ministry it will pass away. But love: Love never fails.
How understanding and integrating our identity as men is key to our ability to walk alongside others as God has designed us to.
How Do we Think Biblically About Constitutional Recognition of Australia's First Nations People's
How Do we Think Biblically About Constitutional Recognition of Australia's First Nations People's
How Do we Think Biblically About Constitutional Recognition of Australia's First Nations People's
How Do we Think Biblically About Constitutional Recognition of Australia's First Nations People's
How Do we Think Biblically About Constitutional Recognition of Australia's First Nations People's -
How Do we Think Biblically About Constitutional Recognition of Australia's First Nations People's
Brooke shares how non-Indigenous people can learn about the struggles in our land, and how we can engage across cultures to bring about a better future.
Brooke shares how non-indigenous people can learn about the struggles in our land and how we can across cultures to bring about a better future.
Bruce & Hannah Tucker share on their journey around mental health issues and how churches can often end up doing more harm than good.