We need your questions!

Fiona Hammond

Imagine you are sitting by the campfire late at night and there’s time to talk, about beginnings, endings, choices, what’s next.

What questions do you wish someone would explore with you?

The FormEdFaith team have a new project, about connecting to life, each other and community.

It has a few layers, including a deck of conversation starter cards, see the ASKaround webpage.

The questions are very important, and we hope you can offer some of your best for use in this deck!

Submit you best ‘deep and meaningful’ question, one that you’d love to hear others discuss, and have a chance to contribute.

Email Fiona on fhammond@anglicanchurchsq.org.au with your ideas by October 15, 2024.

ASKaround conversation cards will be available early in 2025.

Why do we worship?

Fiona Hammond

So here’s a great question for those of us who can meet as Anglican communities once again. What is worship? Why do we do it? What was it that I got out of bed for on a Sunday again?

The new SFC Short Course: Understanding Worship, explores six themes related to these questions, and 1.3 asks the big question: Why do we worship? Check out what Bishop Jeremy Greaves and Reverend Penelope Jones have to say, and then perhaps take this question into your week: ‘When people say they didn’t find God in worship it’s often not about an absence of God, but an absence of themselves’. https://www.stfran.qld.edu.au/1-what-is-worship  

Faith Formation 2.0

Fiona Hammond

There’s an analogy going around that likens our current pandemic experience to riding out a blizzard, at the start of a winter, that may be the beginning of a minor ice age.  John Roberto – the international advocate for inter-generational ministry and all-around awesome guy – expands this idea into some very useful thoughts about how we do church together in the coming weeks, months and years. This article provides a profound foundation from which to launch conversations about where to from here?! Find the pdf here: Guide to transforming faith formation in a changed world.

Let the light shine

Fiona Hammond

Jarrod McKenna (Diocesan Mission Advisor, Perth Anglican Church) writes poignantly about times where God’s people are called to shine their light in the darkness.  Jarrod includes here a story written for his baby, which gently illustrates our call to justice and action in times when others are marginalised and victimised. See if you can find somewhere to read it… as a prayer, as a sermon, as encouragement to keep the light shining in darkness. Mission 2020+ Little Oma's Duty

ABM stories - towards reconciliation

Fiona Hammond

During the COVID-19 lockdown, ABM Missioner, Jazz Dow used Zoom to catch up with some inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Anglican leaders. Check these out and have a listen to these raw and truthful conversation. They explore the many dimensions of what it means to focus on reconciliation in our country and our church. Thoughtful and perceptive insights capture stories and ideas for authentic listening and
growing together. I started with Rev'd Glenn Loughrey  as he discussed his background, and his ministry which includes activism, art and advocacy, and his reflections on a pandemic…and just kept watching!

Zoom in and build community

The Virginia Theological Seminary regularly produces or highlights fab resources for intergenerational ministry. I really recommend a visit, but make sure you have time to mine… there’s just so many wonderful resources. Take this one for example: for those of us who are still operating with physical distancing protocols, a page of stellar ideas for connecting with your people via Zoom - buildfaith.org