Suzanne Lim
The Reason for Tim
The Reason for Tim
Suzanne Lim
Grace and Grief

Life, Death, COVID and Professional Change at Work

Grace and Grief
Suzanne Lim
The Disappearing Church

What leaps to mind for you when you see the question “Is the church disappearing?”

The Disappearing Church
Suzanne Lim
The Incubator

Samuel Muchoki completed the Incubator program in Melbourne, and in the style of a New Testament epistle, he wrote a letter of reflection and encouragement to the rest of his Incubator cohort.

The Incubator
Suzanne Lim
Soma Australia has joined City to City Australia
Soma Australia has joined City to City Australia

Faith and Work

Gotham 2015 Kicks Off

Forty three participants from six churches gathered for the Gotham Kick Off Retreat at Springwood, Blue Mountains over 13 to 15 February.

It was exciting to see nine members from the Dalby Presbyterian Church travel approx. 1,000 kilometres to be there, along with their brothers and sisters from four Sydney churches and one church from Wollongong.

City to City Australia's CEO, Andrew Katay, opened the retreat by welcoming participants and framing the program as an intensive experience to study, explore, debate and reflect on those things at the heart of a Gospel Dynamic, which shapes the whole of our lives.

"This is not just a program, this is an experience, covering heart renewal, community renewal and cultural renewal."

Andrew also welcomed the Australian Centre for Faith's principal sponsor, Reventure, represented by CEO, Lindsay McMillan and City to City Australia's Chair, Wendy Simpson, both of whom shared the crucial nature of bringing a Christ-focussed perspective to the marketplace of our work lives.

Those who will be taking up Gotham this year represent a wide variety of careers and industries, including teaching, medicine, para medical, youth work, engineering, business development, sales, electrical contracting, IT, Not for Profit management, accounting, agriculture, agronomy, administration, small business, law, data analytics and community development.

To learn more about Gotham for your church, contact Gabriel Lacoba at gabriel@citytocityaustralia.org.au

 

Common Faults of Leaders

We spoke with author and consultant, Leigh McLeroy. She has a strong warning for leaders: Don't surround yourself with sycophants and loyalists. "Sometimes people reach a position where they're surrounded by people who can no longer afford to tell them the truth, and they end up with a lot of "yes" people and no one who really is fearless enough or has the ability to say to them this is how it really is. And, what happens is they get so isolated and so locked in that they no longer hear the truth, and the people around them, whether it is out of loyalty or love or fear or respect or whatever, no longer say it to them. And, so I think that isolation, pride, arrogance---I think every leader probably has to face that and fight that."

A 60 second grab highlighting a common pitfall for those in leadership

Cultivating a Cultural Imagination

"... where my soul is floodlit by light which space cannot contain, where there is sound that time cannot seize, where there is a perfume which no breeze disperses, where there is a taste for food no amount of eating can lessen, and where there is a bond of union that no satiety can part.

All human beings long for transcendence. The yearning for something holy, something that we currently experience, can be the spark for much of our work. But what if our longing falters and our imagination fades? And how does our common longing for what's transcendent shape communities and industries? Author and cultural commentator, David Brooks, sheds new light on the reality of our common longings and the hope that it bears for our society.

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