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Some changes can only be embraced when you know the God who doesn’t change.

The 2015 Easter weekend saw Coober Pedy celebrating 100 years since the discovery of opal.

"What do you think of that, Steve?" We stared up at the roof together. I tried to work out the implications of what we saw. None of them were good.

After eight years of living in a cyclone prone area as an adult and many cyclone alerts, Frank Nicol shares what it was like to experience severe tropical cyclone Olwyn, which hit Exmouth and the coastal Pilbara in mid-March.

In 2013, Brad and Joh launched a Mainly Music program from KI Anglican in Kingscote, the largest town on Kangaroo Island, but God showed them that there was a need to provide a church service more tailored to families.

Messages of congratulations, welcomes and farewells from across the BCA family.

BCA Field Staff Rod and Christene Oldfield arrived in Cloncurry in February 2015 to start their new pioneering ministry in North-West Queensland.

Moving to the Pilbara has reminded me vividly of the massive size of Australia. The town we live in is five hours from the closest McDonalds (which some would consider a blessing), and even the closest Coles is 80km away.

Keren Luke, our Children’s and Family Worker is an active contributing member of our Church Leadership Team in Roxby Downs.

After much prayer and discussions Peter and Lee Caspersonn moved to Hay as BCA Co-Workers to support the Lay leaders and people in the church in their ministry.

Messages of congratulations, welcomes and farewells from across the BCA family.

When it comes to leadership, where you put the emphasis makes all the difference.

Joel and Hannah, along with their three children Amy, Finnegan and John, have moved to Roxby Downs to begin a Ministry Training Arrangement in partnership with BCA.

For the last two days of Term 2 and the first few days of the mid-year vacation, 23 students and four staff from Penrith Anglican College went out to Broken Hill as part of a Dusty Boots service trip.

The Reverend Stephen May, Vicar of Ivanhoe, is the new chair of BCA’s Victorian Regional Committee.

It is with great pleasure that we can announce the appointment of the new BCA Regional Officers for South Australia/Northern Territory and Queensland/Northern New South Wales.

David and Priya will be heading to Paraburdoo as BCA’s newest Field Staff.

Robyn Williams, BCA’s National Administration Manager, is a student at Mary Andrews College in Sydney and was recently interviewed about her passion for studying God’s word and the importance of Bush Church Aid’s work in rural and remote Australia.

Earlier this year all the BCA offices took part in the #3postivethings initiative.

Rod and I have many reasons to be thankful – our upbringing in Christian homes, healthy children and grandchildren, purposeful work and the list goes on.