WILL YOU BE COMING HOME THIS CHRISTMAS?

1. WillyoubecominghomethisChristmas before this lonely year is done?
Will you be born a child among us
to make our family one?

2. Will you be driving through the desert across the wastes where dingoes roam? Will you return, our drover brother,
to heal our broken home?
Will you be coming home a swagman, your billy slung across your back,
and set our weary feet in rhythm along the homeward track?

3. WillyoubecominghomewithMary, brown girl with child upon her knee? Will you be home to reunite us beneath a Christmas tree?
Will you be coming from the outback, a traveller sent from God above,
to stir the goodness deep among us with silent human love?

4. WillyoubecominghomethisChristmas before this lonely year is done?
Will you be coming from the outback
to make our family one?

ALWS 29/5/24

In May 2023 we travelled to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia, seeing work supported by Australian Lutheran World Service. Dorothy and I are Ambassadors for the ALWS programme, Lives You Touch. We are encouraging people to leave money in their will for the work of ALWS. We committed to leave a third of our will many years ago and hope many others can touch lives in this way.

Last year we visited churches in SA, Vic, Qld and WA with Jonathan & Julie Krause promoting the cause of ALWS.

Coming up soon:

* Nuriootpa (St Petri) Saturday June 22, 4 pm

To be confirmed:
Bordertown July 28,
Everton Park (Qld) August 17,
Canberra August 24 

Looking forward to seeing you at one of these events