In July, Charlotte, Sam and Noah went to Fiji with Year 13 for a month of mission. Together, their purpose was to encourage and support the local church, and to partner with them in sharing Jesus with those they met. What is Year 13? Year 13 makes the most of the crucial first year out […]

God is never afraid of the hard questions. He welcomes us asking the big ones. Read through the Psalms and see how the Bible gives space for those that even sound accusing (eg: Psalm 13:1, ‘How long, O LORD? Will you forget me for ever? How long will you hide your face from me?’). Like the Psalmist, our community asks Big […]

A devotion on love: 1 John 4:7–21  What does true Christian love, true “agape”, look like?  1 John is one of the best places in Scripture to think about the love that propels us to love our neighbour. In this letter, John has already tested his people’s love twice — in 2:7–11, making sure it comes from the true light of […]

Hello to the good folk of Wollongong and Corrimal! If you could sit down and have a conversation with God, what would you ask him? It’s part of our human nature to wonder or question the way things are in our world, and why we exist. Perhaps you’d ask something along these lines… Whatever your […]

St Michael’s has been a great trainer, sender and supporter of people going into Christ’s harvest field. That’s what Harvest: Next Steps in Focus [Wednesday, June 24th from 6:30-9pm at Wollongong Hall] is all about – to continue as a church praying, raising up, sending and supporting God’s people into Christ’s massive harvest field. Now […]

How God took a quirky kid from Coffs Harbour and made him a catalyst for the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus across two continents and throughout many parts of the world 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote the poem ‘Who am I?’ from the confines of a Nazi concentration camp.   He expresses the disconnect between his confident appearance & his inner trembling.  It’s uncertainty we all know, to varying degrees.  That mismatch between who we feel we are, how we present to others & who we imagine should be.  Which – if any […]

We were made to worship and pray — but that doesn’t mean it comes naturally.  There’s a common assumption that prayer should be instinctive. If your heart is full enough (or desperate enough), it will simply overflow into prayer. And if it doesn’t, there’s no way to learn and grow in it.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian, called this out as a […]