School of the Prophets

The committee of the School of the Prophets would like to invite you to the School of the Prophets to be held 20 January - 26 January 2014 at the Australasian Christadelphian Bible School at Rathmines, on beautiful Lake Macquarie. Studies will be conducted by Bro Matthew Norton and Bro David Burke.

A huge amount of renovations have been done recently at the Bible School and many rooms now have ensuite facilities. For more details, visit the website at www.sotp.org.au. All booking details or inquiries can be sent to info@sotp.org.au. Bookings can be made by those 18 years and over. Cost of the week is $320 for students, and $350 for workers.

With love in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Bro David Olsen 

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Long term Fieldworkers/Volunteers Needed in Thailand

The work of spreading the life-giving gospel in Thailand shifted gears early in 2012 with the establishment of a Bible Education Centre in Chiang Mai, in the north. More than 30 brothers and sisters have worked at the BEC since start up and we are now in search of brothers and sisters, possibly a married couple, willing to make a longer-term commitment at the BEC. For those with an abiding interest in extending real hope to those without it, the work at the BEC is exciting, invigorating and rewarding. 
Street in Chiang Mai, Thailand (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In Chiang Mai, itself, we have developed a small group of friends who are intent on learning the true gospel. In the near future we are expecting, God willing, further developments from one or more in this group. Outside of Chiang Mai, we have friends in a number of other centres within 3 to 6 hours by road from the BEC. In these other centres (visited in most cases multiple times by fieldworkers) we believe we have real and serious opportunities to bring life and light to places darkened by spiritual ignorance and idolatry. But we need helpers to reach out to our friends in these places and to teach and encourage them. (Visit the blog, acbmthailand@blogspot.com for lots more information.)

Chiang Mai is a comfortable and modern city with first class facilities and services. The BEC, located in a quiet neighborhood,  is pleasant, well equipped and with plenty of space (4 bedrooms, study area  and downstairs rooms for teaching). And Thailand, of course, is renowned for its tasty food.  
Tuk-tuk used as a police vehicle. Photo taken at Tapae Gate during the Sunday Evening Walking Market in Chiang Mai,(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you may be able to help, please get in touch with us asap at thailand@acbm.org.au

With love in Christ,

Terry Nutter
38 Wright Rd, STANMORE, Queensland, 4514, Australia
+61 7 5496 1682
+61 408 549 616
thailand@acbm.orb.au
Thailand Area Team
ACBM (Asia-Pacific Christadelphian Bible Mission)

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Relieve the current humanitarian crisis in Syria

At the end of March the Samaritan Fund made a significant donation to an Emergency Appeal by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help relieve the current humanitarian crisis in Syria. This is in addition to the donation made in January to the UNICEF emergency appeal for children in Syria. The DEC appeal provides a grim summary of life in that troubled country: 
Map of the autonomous areas under the French Mandate of Syria before 1937. Only the entities within the territory of the modern state of Syria are shown, so that Hatay (Alexandretta) -- which was ceded by France to Turkey -- and Lebanon (often considered part of Syria before 1936) are excluded. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Two years of war have had a devastating impact on many Syrian families and have left more than four million people in need of aid. In many parts of the country the health system has effectively collapsed, water supplies have been cut and food is in short supply. In addition, over one million people have now fled to the neighbouring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq. Refugees are arriving at camps which are already stretched to capacity, and many families are living in crude shelters they have built themselves, with host families in overcrowded conditions, or in partially finished buildings.

The Samaritan Fund is also able to forward donations from ecclesias and brethren and sisters wishing to support this appeal. Donations should be sent to our Treasurer, Brother Ken Smith, Westhaven House, Arleston Way, Shirley, Solihull, West Mids., B90 4LH, with a note earmarking it for the DEC Crisis Appeal for Syria.

 Neville Moss (Secretary Samaritan Fund)

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Helping against or causing more homophobia

Everywhere in the world we see that there is a growing trend of verbal/physical abuse and life threatening violence by friends, family members, teachers, mobs and in worst case by the law enforcement officers from time to time to people who do not fall into the mainstream or to those who are considered 'queer'.

Can you believe in the fact that organisations could make a difference? Is it possible that the physical, spiritual, social and economic well-being of communities can be greatly influenced to the good by effectively mobilizing religious societies to collaborate for change?

The Interfaith Consortium in partnership with United for Life Ethiopia, the local Pro-life, western Conservative Evangelicals ally organized two national anti-homosexuality conferences and pass a joint statement to plea the government to further restrict the practice of homosexuality in December, 2008 at UN Convention Center and June, 2012 at the newly built African Union headquarter in Addis Ababa.

According to rainbowethiopia1the corrupted and politicized Interfaith Consortium is unfortunately, doing nothing and remains silent in several pressing issues of the country; when the government was repeatedly and openly criticized by international human rights and press organizations as well as by some government officials from the European Community and United States for its abuse of freedom of the press and civic association and human rights since the introduction of  the restrictive charities and societies, press and anti-terrorism laws.

Read more about it: Is the Ethiopian Interfaith Forum for Development or for Homophobia??? and the Support from The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR/Emergency Plan) ???

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A non paragraphed Bible

Crossway had made the decision to introduce the first ESV not to be paragraphed. New Bible ideas go through multiple stages of review by the committee before approval and publication. Usually this process begins with the review of a brief proposal and summary of the new idea. Then it progresses to a careful review of sample pages and proposed specifications.  The initial idea for the Legacy Bible originated in 2009.

From the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, double column, verse-per-line text settings were the norm. Every Bible looked like an old KJV (then again, most of them were old KJVs).
Over the past fifty-odd years, however, Bibles have tended to be presented in paragraphs, the way other books are formatted. That was true of the ESV when it was released in 2001.

Single column Bibles were a rarity until recently. The success of the Message Remix brought them into the mainstream, but a number of years passed before other translations got into the game. The first efforts, while promising, did not quite manage to pull off the difficult balancing act inherent in rendering the vast text of Scripture in readable novel-like page spreads.

The Single Column Journaling Bible is printed and bound in China, opens flat from Genesis 1.1 forward, and is sold at a affordable price.

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