This year’s Synod meeting will be held at St Philip’s College in Alice Springs.
The Synod opening service will be held on the evening of Friday 5 October. Synod business will be conducted on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October, finishing at 5pm on Sunday.
This year there are some other meetings and professional development activities occurring before and after the Synod meeting.
Participants attending the Synod meeting will also need to:
1. complete the registration form (to be available soon) so the Synod office
At the Northern Synod meeting in July 2017 the leadership of the General Secretary Mr Peter Jones was strongly endorsed.
It was agreed to extend the placement of our General Secretary for one year to the end of 2018, and to ask the Synod Standing Committee to commence the task of recruiting a new General Secretary.
We continue to pray for and to appreciate the many gifts and skills Peter has exercised over the last 10 years in his role as General
With sadness the Northern Synod notes the passing of Rev Jovilisi Ragata.
The funeral for Jovilisi will be held on 2 June in Brisbane, some NRCC
members from Galiwinku will be attending to pass onto Jovilisi’s family our
condolences.
Jovilisi Ragata came to Australia in 1970. He came from the Methodist
Church in Fiji with a Certificate in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.
He began work as an agriculturalist at Milingimbi 1970 and was there until he
moved to Goulburn Island June 1974
The PPNA Continuing Education Fund provides grants to lay members of the PPNA to cover course fees and travel expenses. Applicants can apply for up to $700 over a two year period.
Please read the Guidelines – Grants for Lay people – Continuing Eduction Fund before applying. Applications can be submitted after reading by completing theGuidelines – Grants for Lay people – Continuing Eduction Fund and emailing it to Sue Smith, ppnaadmin@ns.uca.org.au.
Guidelines – Grants for Lay people – Continuing Eduction Fund
And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:43
Eternal salvation for man is the main reason Christ came into the world, willing to endure misery, accepting all suffering, and obeying the Father and dying on the cross. His whole life is aimed at carrying out the rescue mission and Christ has done it perfectly. Even to the hour of his death, He did not waste the opportunity to save the thief who was
