Listen again to the story of Charles Grant and how he transformed Indian society and education in the 19th century and beyond through his Christian world view. Broadcast on Songs of Hope segment “Christians who have made a difference” on 4 August 2013.
God gives Christians certain spiritual gifts. In “Words for Life” this week Rev Mark Durie of St Mary’s Anglican church in Caulfield, addresses this topic in his sermon. Broadcast on Southern FM on 28/July/2013.
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The Songs of Hope prayer is “Celebrating the harvest”, Psalm 126. Broadcast 2013 07 28 on Songs of Hope.
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126 It seemed like a dream
when the Lord brought us back
to the city of Zion. 2 We celebrated with laughter
and joyful songs.
In foreign nations it was said,
“The Lord has worked miracles
for his people.” 3 And so we celebrated
because the Lord had indeed
worked miracles for us.
4 Our Lord, we ask you to bless
our people again,
and let us be like streams
in the Southern Desert. 5 We cried as we went out
to plant our seeds.
Now let us celebrate
as we bring in the crops. 6 We cried on the way
to plant our seeds,
but we will celebrate and shout
as we bring in the crops.
The head of the largest church in the world, Yonggi Cho, has come to Melbourne expressly to thank a Melbourne church for sending missionaries to Korea late in the 19th century. The missionary endeavour they started has resulted in there being 17 million Christians in South Korea today.
The church he came to thank is St Mary’s Anglican Church in Caulfield. Our “Christians who have made a difference” segment today is brought to us by the minister of St Mary’s, the Reverend Mark Durie.
The first Australian missionary to Korea was Henry Davies in 1890, but he died of smallpox and pneumonia after 8 months, aged only 32 years, and is buried in Busan.
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