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2020 Advent Reflection

2020 Advent Reflection
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Our 2020 Advent Reflections are available!  Advent is a festive time that helps us reflect more deeply on the choices and practices that sustain us in life. The theme we have chosen for this year’s Advent reflection booklet is ‘A Christmas Menu’. As ...
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Bible Study: Learning from the early church’s response to pandemics

Bible Study: Learning from the early church’s response to pandemics
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For the early Christians, crises, including pandemics in the first few centuries, were opportunities to show the love of God to those around them. BIBLE READING “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the p...
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2020 Lenten Reflection

2020 Lenten Reflection
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Our 2020 Lenten Reflections have arrived and are available!  This year our free Lenten Reflection is themed Learnings for Life. It contains reflections that may probe, stretch and challenge - but hopefully in positive and life-giving ways. While some of...
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Reflections from a war zone

Reflections from a war zone
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AOA Board member, Dr Robin Ray, has been instrumental in spreading the word about the wonderful work of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Robin was our first ambassador and visited the hospital in April 2019, along with other board members on a self-funded tri...
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Theology of Disaster Resilience Bible studies

Theology of Disaster Resilience Bible studies
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The countries where we work are some of the most vulnerable in the world. This is especially the case in the Pacific, which is highly prone to natural disasters. The question of why disasters happen has plagued people of faith for thousands of years. A part...
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2019 Advent Reflection

2019 Advent Reflection
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Our 2019 Advent Reflections are available!  This year we have endeavoured to go a bit deeper and push past the popular veneer of Advent. Sentimental reminiscing about the baby Jesus does not, in our view, do the season justice. This is because the impli...
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2019 Lenten Reflection

2019 Lenten Reflection
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Our 2019 Lenten Reflections have arrived and are available!  This year we have called the Lenten Reflection An Armchair Pilgrimage to encourage us all to take time out of our usual routine to go on a journey, a pilgrimage, in the lead up to this deeply ...
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2018 Advent Reflection

2018 Advent Reflection
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Our 2018 Advent Reflections have arrived and are available!  This year we have focused on what Advent and the Christmas story mean within our Australian context. Our Australian culture and experience inevitably impacts our understanding and how we c...
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Blessed are the pure in heart

Blessed are the pure in heart
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As part of Common Grace's Lenten 2018 reflection series, our CEO, Bob Mitchell, explored how, when we turn to God, and put our trust in him, his grace makes us pure and we are invited into a new way of relating with God. Throughout Scripture we see God reveal...
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Bible Study: Preparing for difficult times

Bible Study: Preparing for difficult times
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BIBLE READING Read Genesis 41   BACKGROUND Anglican Overseas Aid is increasingly involved in preparing for disasters. This includes making sure that when disasters occur, the risk of harm is reduced and the people affected are able to cope in...
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Order your Lenten reflection booklets now

Order your Lenten reflection booklets now
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In 2018 we are producing our annual Lenten reflection booklets again. Ideal as a personal reflection, small group study guide, or whole of church resource, these booklets are again FREE to any person or church that requests them. Our focus for this year'...
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Bible Study: Restoring dignity to everyone

Bible Study: Restoring dignity to everyone
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BIBLE READING Read Mark 5:24-34 BACKGROUND When looking at the stories of Jesus in the gospels, we see that he always treated people according to their circumstances. He never actually operated according to a formula. Some people he healed away from the...
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Bible Study: “…I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”

Bible Study: “…I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
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Our 2015/16 Annual Report features, on its cover, the Anglican Overseas Aid motto, ‘Life. Abundantly. For All.’ The motto is drawn from St John’s Gospel, so we thought that it would be good to understand it a little deeper. This statement from Jesus comes i...
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2017 Lenten Reflection: Giving Up, Taking Up

2017 Lenten Reflection: Giving Up, Taking Up
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Lent is the season in the Christian calendar when the focus turns to simple living, prayer, self-examination, and fasting in preparation for Easter. People often talk of ‘giving something up for Lent’ which is a part of its rich tradition of self-sacrifice ...
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Prepare: An Advent Reflection

Prepare: An Advent Reflection
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This year we are again producing our very popular Advent booklets. Once again, we are following the traditional themes of Advent: hope, love, joy and peace. This year we have invited reflective input and images from our overseas partners as we seek to share...
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Toward Christmas: An Advent Reflection

Toward Christmas: An Advent Reflection
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In the run-up to Christmas 2015, we produced a FREE pocket-sized Advent reflections booklet called Toward Christmas: An Advent Reflection. The booklet was hugely popular, and we no longer have paper copies available, but you can download a pdf copy. Based o...
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Bible Study: Thy Kingdom Come… on Earth

Bible Study: Thy Kingdom Come… on Earth
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The kingdom of God is mentioned more than 100 times in the gospels. It is what Jesus spent most of his time talking about. But Jesus never actually defined the kingdom of God. When he talked about it he spoke in parables, often using analogies, saying, “it ...
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Toward Easter: A Lenten reflection

Toward Easter: A Lenten reflection
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For the 2016 Lent season, we have produced a FREE pocket-sized Lenten reflections booklet called Toward Easter: A Lenten Reflection. The booklet is not specific to the year 2016, and will still be available for future years, until stocks run out. Based on t...
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Bible Study: Helping in hard places

Bible Study: Helping in hard places
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In June 2015, we wrote the following bible study that linked to our End of Financial Year Appeal theme, Helping in Hard Places. Exploring how Jesus often when to the 'margins' to serve the people that nobody else cared about, this study is also a challenge to ...
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