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 5/10/23

To say I've been inactive on my website is a serious understatement! I've written nothing here since early 2021. 

So, does this mean the world has stopped for us, that nothing is happening?
A major event for us in 2022 was moving house in October. We had been in Modbury Heights since July 1993.Now we're back in Klemzig.

In May 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.
Since then we have visited Box Hill & Loxton with Jonathan & Julie Krause as part of the Asante presentations, promoting the cause of ALWS. Still to come this year are Asante events in Toowoomba & Rochedale (Nov 26 & 27) and Perth (Dec 10)

Looking forward to seeing many people on these occasions.