The festive season is a special time to connect, and students from St Michael’s Primary School at Nelson Bay, and residents from Regis Port Stephens and Harbourside Haven nursing homes, recently did just that when they shared an inspiring intergenerational interaction.
For thousands of years, Indigenous people have taken part in yarning circles and for the St Mary’s Primary School, Warners Bay community, it was a tradition they wanted to incorporate in their bush tucker garden.
Jackie Coleman has travelled far and wide pursuing her desires to support linguistic minorities to achieve good literacy in their societies’ dominant languages and in their own.
From replacing sheets and bandages more than 90 years ago to its role today as the major fundraising arm, the Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital Auxiliary has had an evolving association with the infirmary.
Teachers, students and their families from across the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle gathered on October 23 at St Joseph’s Catholic Parish in Toronto for the 2019 Diocesan Mission Mass. They came together to celebrate the prayerful and practical support generated by their school for children like themselves around the world — children often living in difficult and life-threatening circumstances caused by poverty, disability, racial discrimination, community conflict and war.
With a career spanning more than two decades in the social services sector, there is no denying Gary Christensen has a drive to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable people.