Soon this website will undergo a major overhaul: you’ll like it! I’m very grateful for the voluntary help of many people – especially Bradley, Dave, Bonni, Ray – and others. And to Pastornet in Canberra, for hosting the site.

This may be Australia’s busiest religious website: thanks for visiting! May I commend the daily religious news updates: why not print off excerpts for your church bulletins, and use them for public and private intercession? I post these news items also to about 20 religious Usenet newsgroups. Some clergy-visitors here also use the Sunrise Sunset articles for church bulletins. From your feedback, I hear that many people log on to the site each morning or evening, to read a devotional article, or the New Articles, or something from the humour section!

If you have a good poem or sermon/article or book/film review, email it to me for inclusion on this site. (But don’t be disappointed if it doesn’t make it, eh?). Put your name on it, with ‘Reproduced with the author’s permission’ or some such – and your website’s URL if you wish.

My travels recently have taken me to Hong Kong (Baptists), Nowra (Church of Christ), Brisbane (Anglican Diocese), Order of St. Luke (International Conference), Warrnambool (Baptist), Wycliffe Bible Translators’ staff enrichment day, and Kalgoorlie (Baptist). Thanks to these churches, clergy and leaders for their patience with many words! In the next few weeks there’s quite a bit of preaching, plus the annual Youth For Christ staff and volunteers’ conference. During December-January 2002-3 I’m taking time off from counselling/mentoring, to write a Code of Ethics manual for the Baptist Union of Victoria, and to work over the JMM and Pastors’ Wives’ websites.

Here’s an intelligent website I’ve just discovered: Idaho Mountain Ministries

On a personal note, I turn 65 on December 5. In Australia that means I’m eligible for an ‘old-age pension’. That’s odd ‘cos I don’t feel old – still working over many ideas, and still running up steps! Although John Mark Ministries will continue (parousia-permitting!), I’m scaling back my counselling program, to spend more time in reflection, reading, writing, organizing boxes of old correspondence, and collecting F W Boreham books (got any lying around?)