General News
21 January, 2026
The road ahead
As we drive along a road we haven’t travelled before, we never know what we will see or experience.
We might look back in the rearview mirror and see where we have come from, or stop and survey the scene.
This ‘in between’ season we find ourselves in, 2025 having ended and 2026 just begun, with harvest finished and cropping not yet commenced, it is a good time to stop and reflect.
Like a road that is new to us, as we travel into the New Year, all is unknown; we might have hopes and dreams, or just plan to get through what is to come.
We also know of the challenges of the year already, across the world and in Australia.
With fires and floods, acts of hatred and terrorism, we might feel uncertain and fearful.
This might cause us to follow our natural inclination to withdraw, to draw our circles closer and seek to protect and help our own families and communities in our own strength.
But what if we chose to look out? To make our framework bigger rather than smaller? To look beyond ourselves, to something or Someone other than ourselves? To look for strength, help and grace that enables us to love and care freely and generously for all? That helps us in the trials of life, big and small.
The life and mission of Jesus Christ was to live out God’s way of love, to show how we can live in faith and trust.
To bring new life and hope.
Your local church communities invite all to go on a journey of discovery this year to explore faith beyond ourselves, what that means and how it can impact on how we view life and the unknown.
To be able live in faith, hope and love and see where such a framework takes you.
Wishing all every blessing in the New Year and the strength, grace and courage that relationship with God can give.