Synod 2025
Presidential Charge to Thirty-Eighth Synod of the Diocese of the Northern Territory
Introduction and welcome
Welcome to our 2025 diocesan synod. I’m talking to you on the screen but I’m reading from paper, so that will explain why my eyes are going up a down! It seems strange to say welcome when I’m recording this more than a month before our synod begins. We are doing it this way again after trying a recorded speech last synod because it gives synod representatives more time to think about what I am saying and to ask questions about it during our synod session. Our experiment from last time of running synod from Thursday night until Saturday lunchtime worked well enough for us to do it again this time, although the airlines have changed their flight times between Alice Springs and Darwin so, sadly, the Alice Springs people still can’t get back in time for church the next day after synod. Thank you for being part of synod. I appreciate the time that you are giving to be at synod. You might know that one of the big things that the Roman Catholic Church has been exploring since the time of the last pope is whether they should have more of a kind-of-synod structure in their decision-making, rather than decisions just being handed down from the pope and bishops. (I’m sure that even those decisions have a lot of wide consultation and prayer behind them.) As Anglicans we are used to clergy and laypeople together making decisions for the life of our church, and from my perspective that is a precious and important thing. We each have a significant part to play as members of the body of Christ. I think in the last few decades in many churches (especially in the big cities) there has been a large increase in “paid ministry” (for example churches having “staff teams” of more than one or two) rather than the army of volunteers that kept churches going when I was a child. I’m sure that there are good reasons and benefits in that new way, but we must guard the truth that our churches are full of people who have received the Holy Spirit’s gifts to build the church – not just the gift of giving so that others can do the paid work. We do not have a huge number of decisions to make at this synod, and what we do have is important for the life of our churches and the diocese as a whole, but I hope we can see that simply coming together as representatives across the diocese is an important way of expressing that we belong to one another. We belong because God has rescued us through Jesus and brought us into his family. What we do together at synod, wherever we come from in the Territory, is done as part of a fellowship that wants to see the gospel grow across the whole of the NT.
I looked recently at the latest Australian census figures, from 2021. Who knows how they will change before our next census in 2026?! In the NT between 2016 and 2021, the number of people who said in the census that they were Anglican dropped from over 19,000 to under 14,000 – or in percentages from 8.4% to 6% of the total population[*]. In that five years, the percentage of people who said they had no religion rose from 29.4% to 38.1%. Out of every three Territorians, one says that they just aren’t interested in church. But of course that means that the other two out of three might be interested! And God might soften the hearts of the 38%. Not to mention that we are well short of having all 14,000 census Anglicans in our Anglican churches. The Territory still needs a lot of gospel growth. And we know that it is God who gives the growth, so we keep doing our part as his workers, praying and trusting that God will use our work for his good purposes. Paul in Colossians 1:29 talks about “working and struggling hard with all the energy that Christ so powerfully works in me”.
Diocesan strategic plan
Our work as a diocese has as a focusing framework a strategic plan, which was endorsed by our last synod and is due for renewal by the time of our next synod. That means there is work to be done in the next twelve to eighteen months on how we should adjust what we are doing, under God. We must remain faithful to our gospel calling and at the same time carefully analyse and evaluate what is changing around us and therefore needs a new response. A two-part question we could ask in all our churches across the diocese is: what is our greatest strength and how we can we preserve it, and what is one thing that is limiting what we do and what can we do to change it?
There are some aspects of the current strategic plan that are going quite well – recruitment is always a challenge, but in God’s kindness we have had some great additions to the diocese since last synod. Training is underway: a significant part of that is the development of support policies for paid clergy and church workers under our “ProDRAS” program of professional development, ministry reviews and professional supervision. Our church services are well thought out, carefully prepared and have many different people taking part in them. Evangelism is on our agenda, and I have heard a number of stories of people becoming Christians in the diocese in the last two years.
Other parts of the strategic plan challenge us towards further dreaming, planning and action. Two areas that might be in this category are innovation and “public Christianity”. There HAVE been significant initiatives in recent times: new congregations planted, new buildings, programs for connection with community, partner organisation conferences, ecumenical engagement opportunities; but there is room for further development. One huge dream which is represented in a motion coming before synod is to plant a second Anglican church in Palmerston. When St Luke’s began, Palmerston consisted of only four suburbs, and the population was less than 6,000. There are now twenty suburbs and the population is approaching 40,000. I have spoken with the St Luke’s churchwardens about this, and they can see the need. The question will be what steps are needed to bring this dream to reality, but it will not be the first time that an Anglican church has been planted in the Northern Territory! It can be done!
In terms of “public Christianity”, there have been big issues in public discussion in the last couple of years: the previous NT government’s push towards “Voluntary Assisted Dying”, the current government putting it back on the agenda, the terrible state of Territory prisons and related issues of the criminal justice system (such as people being remanded in custody sometimes for as many as 400 days before their court case is finally heard), racism in the police force according to the Kumanjayi Walker inquest, the return to public debate of the revisions to the Anti-Discrimination Act which the previous government legislated, and which the current government promised to repeal sections of, particularly regarding what are often regarded as religious freedoms, the ongoing disadvantage of Aboriginal Territorians and shocking rates of domestic violence. All of these issues, and others in the Territory and further away, get a lot of attention in the media. The question is whether regular sensible Christian commentary on some of them in our churches and from our churches might provide a good witness to the blessings that closer connection to God, and awareness of God’s pattern for human life, produce. If the answer to that question is yes (as I think it is), we need to think together about the best ways of doing that – which is not likely to be particularly easy in a community as polarised as the Western world seems to be at present.
The second objective of the strategic plan is to have effective systems supporting ministry. These include what happens in the diocesan office, our relationships with partner organisations, the need to grow sustainability (including financial sustainability) and finding more partners. Over the last two years, we have made progress in these areas, but there is always more to be done. There have been significant changes in the diocesan office and we are on the edge of more. Martha Stewart began as diocesan General Manager just before Synod 2023 and has been a great force for positive development, with her depth of experience in organisational leadership. Having separate positions for a finance manager and property manager seems so necessary that we might wonder how previous registrars managed without them. Lee Walton was able to bring to completion a massive improvement in remote properties, including church buildings and accommodation needed for church support workers (and where we have vacancies for workers which can be rented out). Randall Manoharan continues to come up with ways of improving our financial systems including providing support for parishes that need help with their money administration. We have been trying to recruit for many months an office manager but so far have been unsuccessful. On the ministry side, Archdeacon Simon Koefoed plays an important role in parish and clergy support, including through the ProDRAS program and overseeing safe ministry. The decision not to continue with a centralised children’s ministry officer was difficult, but in the four years that Naomi Ireland was in that role, many parishes made strides forward and no longer seemed to be looking for central support.
In the last year, there have been some significant donations to the diocese, including bequests from members of our churches or donations arising from bequests to members and other friends of the diocese. Parishes have also experienced generous gifts and funding support to enable infrastructural improvements, including the new building currently under construction at St James’ Sanderson to improve their capacity for the weekly subsidised grocery ministry, Food for Life, as well as being a space for other ministries, and repurposing of the Alice Springs rectory adjacent to the church and provision of accommodation for the rector outside of the town centre. We continue to benefit enormously from the provision of people as well as financial support, through the recruiting work of CMS and BCA. Earlier this year the diocese ran a conference for our ministry partners: organisations that provide us (or could provide us) with people or money. This was the third conference like this in the last ten years and was helpful in refreshing our partners’ (and potential partners’) vision of what is happening in the diocese and encouraging their ongoing collaboration with us and even with one another. We need to go a lot further in increasing the diocese’s capital in forms similar to the Bishopric Endowment Fund, to gain sustainability. (In that way, we are in the same boat as many regional dioceses.) I was encouraged by a recent example of the unlocking of funds in my father’s parish in Sydney (which is not that big and not that rich) where an appeal to raise $150,000 to fit out their new church building was more than fully subscribed in less than two weeks.
One of the key areas that has continued to increase the financial challenge for the diocese is redress for past abuse, including through the National Redress Scheme and settlement of civil litigation. We are not yet in the catastrophic situation of some other parts of the Anglican Church of Australia, especially the Diocese of North Queensland (where our former Dean, Keith Joseph is the bishop), but there is no end in sight to claims and we remain at risk. The sale of the St Mary’s Children’s Village site in Alice Springs (where so much of the abuse occurred) to the NT Government provided an injection of funds to be able to meet redress claims, but there are very limited prospects for further injections like that. The North Queensland situation has drawn the attention of the national church to the financial consequences for small regional dioceses of the current redress arrangements, but the solution is not yet apparent.
The recasting of a strategic plan for the years beyond 2026 will need to keep facing these and other challenges. And at the same time we trust that what we are doing is God’s work and that God will graciously and abundantly provide what we need to be partners in that work.
Anglican life beyond the Diocese
Matters outside the Diocese have an impact on us, sometimes in subtle ways such as the general public impressions of the Anglican Church as a whole, and sometimes through national decisions that affect our own business, including processes that derive from the Royal Commission into abuse and which required national standards across churches to advance the safety of children.
I am recording this address just days before the election of the new Anglican primate for Australia. Our outgoing primate has been the Archbishop of Adelaide, Geoff Smith, who will be concluding his ministry later this year. The primate has little actual authority in the national church, but serves a co-ordinating and unifying function, and in particular chairs the General Synod. General Synod meets only about every five years and is due to meet next in August 2026. The lack of unity across the national church that I referred to last synod remains apparent particularly in the area of how we understand human sexuality and what God says about it. The most recent national bishops meeting discussed what effect that lack of unity is having in each diocese, perhaps with the unspoken assumption that the underlying cause of the tension will never be resolved. The situation seems similar to that in the Church of England, except that the Church of England has had for the last few years a program to deliberately resource discussion about same-sex relationships. Even in the face of that program, it is clear that the situation there is deadlocked and great polarisation results.
On the more positive side, our Australian church facilitated and encouraged a national evangelism campaign between Easter and Pentecost this year, Hope25. Reports are still being compiled about how it went, but the fact that each diocese at least had evangelism on its agenda for that period is something to thank God for.
The national church has also been putting considerable effort and funding into resourcing improvements to how we confront domestic and family violence in church and wider society. Two representatives from the diocese attended the national Anglican DFV conference last year and the same will happen this year. Our own diocesan DFV committee continues to do its work raising our awareness of the problem and in increasing our resources to help, as we read in their synod report.
Aboriginal ministry
Our last synod was just before the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament. I said in my presidential address at that time that whatever the outcome of the referendum, the diocese was committed to listening deeply to the Aboriginal voices here. In the last two years, our WALK (Wed-Ayakwa-Lhaawu-Kunwok – the word for “word” or “story” in the four main Aboriginal languages of our remote parishes) gatherings have progressed usefully, meeting once electronically and once face-to-face each year. At the Zoom meetings in February about 30 people were able to join in and share what was happening in their churches and their perspectives about their needs and concerns. An important part of our diocesan synods is receiving reports from all our parishes, and because of the way communication works, it is the major way that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal churches hear from each other. This fortifies our ongoing prayers for each parish through the diocesan prayer cycle. Two constant themes that emerge through the WALK process are the goal of reaching more Aboriginal men with the gospel, and the complex issue related to how Christian faith and Aboriginal culture intersect.
Through a Christian philanthropic foundation’s grant, we have been able to support meetings for discussion and mutual encouragement of a group of four Aboriginal clergy: Darryn Farrell, James Woods, Craig Rogers and Edwin Bundurr Rami, which has been so helpful in developing a sense of close partnership among them. The success of that process led to a further grant to create a similar group for Aboriginal women developing as church leaders, including with the possibility of ordination. That work is being led by Ruth Walton, even now that she has finished as Dean of Anglican students at Nungalinya.
In January, seven of our Aboriginal church leaders and I were able to do presentations at four of the CMS state summer conferences, in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia. This provided the opportunity for sharing with several thousand people about some of the joys and challenges, aspirations and realities of church life in remote communities, and was well received. CMS followed up with an edition of their quarterly magazine Checkpoint devoted to stories about Aboriginal ministry in the Territory and the Kimberly. Similar presentations have been fruitful in the past in bringing people here for ministry and I hope that the same will be true this time. One young family are in the process of candidacy with CMS with a view to doing their CMS training in the first half of 2026 with the expectation of moving to the Territory in 2027.
September will see the celebration of the centenary of Gunbalanya/Oenpelli as a CMS mission. In 1925, the Commonwealth Government handed over to CMS the cattle station that they had acquired from Paddy Cahill some years earlier, for development as a mission. The history of the church there is strong, including Bible translation from as early as the 1930s, partnership with North Queensland through the provision of Aboriginal clergy in the 1980s, until the ordination of the first local clergy, Kenneth Mangiru and the late Peterson Nganjmirra in 1989. Lois Nadjamerrek has been the ordained leader of the parish since 2009. Partnership with other Christian organisations alongside CMS, including Bible Society, Mission Aviation Fellowship and SIL has also helped sustain the church. A highlight in the last decade was the dedication of the complete New Testament in Kunwinjku in 2018, the same year that the Pearson family arrived as church support workers with CMS. Sadly, there will not be representation from Emmanuel Church at synod this year because of funeral business for Lois’s sister who passed away earlier this year.
A matter relating to Aboriginal churches in the Diocese that has been a concern, perhaps even a scandal, for many years is payment for Aboriginal clergy. This matter was raised at our Ministry Partners Conference earlier this year. The New Testament teaches that church leaders should be paid (see, for example, 1 Corinthians 9:7-14 and Galatians 6:6), at the same time as warning against being greedy, or wanting to become a minister in order to get paid (eg as Peter says in 1 Peter 5:2, and as we read in Hebrews 13:5). It is in living memory (at least for the older people among us) that some Aboriginal clergy were receiving regular income from their parish’s giving, but it is quite a long time ago. I acknowledge that the situation is complicated. Our usual model in mainstream parishes is that ministry is supported primarily by the giving of the congregation, although there are other sources of income such as hiring out facilities. This model is underpinned by assumptions about the way the mainstream economy works, for example in terms of employment as the major generator of income, private and individual asset bases and so on. Not all of these assumptions are true for remote economies, where unemployment rates are high, and where much more property is communal. I want this to be a matter that WALK grapples with in the next few meetings.
Nungalinya College remains a key part of our Aboriginal ministry with many students coming from Anglican communities, and many Anglicans among the staff of the College. We welcomed a new principal in December 2024, Dr Yane Damanik, following Ben van Gelderen’s move south. Ben had a remarkable habit of successfully applying for grants and donations from a wide range of government and non-government agencies. Under his leadership, this led to big developments. The range of courses grew considerably, and the grounds of the campus at Casuarina have been transformed, including completing the replacement of most of the old asbestos-ridden accommodation cottages. Yane comes originally from Indonesia and has experience before coming to Australia in theological education in Indonesian Papua. She also has a background with Aboriginal people in the Territory and NSW through her ministry for many years with Australian Indigenous Ministries. Yane has come at a difficult time for the College with the tragic death in early November 2024 of Rev Dr Michelle Cook following a bizarre and unlikely accident at the edge of the campus. The impact on the College has been deep and longlasting, and a memorial has been erected where the accident occurred. Despite this sad beginning, Yane has made an excellent start to her work, displaying grace, compassion and wisdom. We look forward to hearing Nungalinya’s report at synod.
We welcome back to the Territory Josh and Steph Mackenzie with Ezekiel and Eleanor after their CMS Home Assignment in Victoria as they return to their church support work at Numbulwar.
Anglicare NT
We will also be hearing Anglicare NT’s report. Last Synod it wasn’t very long that Craig Kelly had been in the position of CEO, and we have had more time now to experience his enormous wisdom, ability to deal with difficult situations, deep insight into the workings of government and funders and clear strategic thinking. This year marked the tenth anniversary of Anglicare NT’s incorporation as an entity separate from the Diocese, although we remain linked as the only member of the Company Limited by Guarantee and through governance in that Board Directors must be approved by our Diocesan Council. We should not take for granted the strength of Anglicare’s current executive team, and Craig’s own position as a Christian leader in the organisation.
In the next couple of years, a number of Board Directors will reach the compulsory end of their term after many years of minimal turnover of Directors, including the Board Chair, Richard Giles. This presents an opportunity and challenge and I would value your prayers for succession planning. Anglicare NT is highly regarded by government, by the social services sector and in the community. Something like 10% of the Territory’s population are or have been clients of Anglicare. Anglicare’s work across a broad sweep of social services – support for youth, the homeless, the aged, families, people with disability, people in poverty, those in prison and recently released – all that work is done on our behalf as the Diocese, and demonstrates and embodies God’s care for those on the edge. Anglicare values its partnership with the Diocese, and it is part of Anglicare’s strategic plan to develop the partnership further, and I trust that all at synod value our partnership with Anglicare.
Decisions for synod to make
As usual there are decisions to make at synod which are set out in our synod papers. They may not seem very far-reaching, but they are significant nonetheless. In the structure of things, proposals come to synod for discussion and decision, but synod is not just a rubber stamp to approve what somebody else has already decided. I hope that you will give proper care and thought to the proposals.
As I said at the beginning, synod is now just part of the Anglican way of doing things, and so the way that synod is made up is important. We have a proposal to amend our diocesan constitution to change how many lay people represent each parish at synod. At present the number is one more than the number of licensed clergy in the parish. This builds into our decision-making system that decisions cannot be dominated by clergy. (By the way, for any synod decision, laypeople and clergy have a kind of veto power. If enough people call for a vote by Orders [sometimes called Houses other places] – that is the Order of Clergy and the Order of Laity, a majority must be reached in each House for a vote to pass. The bishop also holds veto power. This is Anglican democracy!) The new proposal would change the constitution so that each parish is entitled to send only two lay representatives. Further reasons for the proposal are in the synod papers. Because this would change the constitution, the proposal is only accepted if at least three-quarters of synod members in each Order vote for it.
Second, we have a relatively simple change to the words of the Parishes Ordinance to keep it up to date with other documented policies. I imagine that this proposal will not be controversial, but in a system that has agreed laws and policies, it is important to have accuracy.
Third is a proposal to change the Professional Standards Ordinance. The original ordinance followed a model provided by General Synod, which is now over 20 years old. Many other dioceses have already amended this model ordinance to make it more useful or relevant in their own context. Another proposal is flagged for our next synod to consider, probably in 2027, but for the moment the proposal coming to us would increase the power of the diocesan Professional Standards Committee to resolve matters coming to it without requiring an investigated matter automatically to be escalated to a Professional Standards Board. Other relevant reasons for making this change are set out in our synod papers.
There are also some non-legislative motions coming to us, to express our collective voice as the synod. I remind synod members that there is also the possibility of requesting synod to allow motions from the floor to be presented. Synod does not have to allow them, but can choose to if synod members feel that it would be helpful to discuss a further issue.
Changes of people in the diocese
Of course in the two-year period since the last synod, there have been many changes among the people in our churches. At the end of 2025, something like 30 people who had been regularly attending Alice Springs church moved away from the town. This is not unusual across all our Territory mainstream parishes. But it is usual in the presidential address to record changes in ministry staff and other key lay roles.
It is always exciting to have people come to the Territory for ministry, or people who are already here stepping into ministry posts. Since last synod we have welcomed
· Rev Phil Muston as short-term locum in 2023 at Tennant Creek – Phil was a former rector of Nightcliff
· Rev Daniel Gillis as army chaplain in Darwin from 2024 and also for just a few months in early 2024, Rev Wez Coffey as army chaplain in Darwin
· Rev John and Carol Jenner as locum at Katherine, March to May 2024
· Philip Gerber as diocesan Chancellor from March 2024
· Jo Vandersee as prison chaplain from the end of 2024
· Sam and Bec Gorfine, with Hudson, as CMS missionaries on Groote Eylandt at the beginning of 2025
· Maggie Crewes as CMS’s first appointment to Alice Springs at the beginning of 2025
· Dr David Pohlmann as Dean for Anglican students at Nungalinya (from January to July 2025 only)
· Zac and Jess Anderson with Zoe and Jude to Nightcliff where Zac is assistant minister from the beginning of 2025
· Rev Simon Hattrell as locum at Katherine, from May to July 2025
· Cherrian Luxton as editor of Top Centre, from just about now, following Mary Martin’s interim editorship for the last year.
And we will be welcoming Rev Pat O’Keeffe to become rector of Katherine, with his wife Issy from mid-October.
We celebrated:
· The ordination as deacon of James Woods at Urapunga and the ordination as priest of Edwin Bundurr Rami at Numbulwar in October 2023
· The ordinations as priests of Matt Goldman at the cathedral and Jesse Morrison at St Peter’s Nightcliff in the second half of 2024.
We farewelled:
· Rev Glen Elsegood as army chaplain in Darwin at the end of 2023
· Natalie Watson from her position as Women’s Pastoral Support worker in early 2024
· Zoe Creelman from Ngukurr in January 2024 as a CMS church support worker
· Dr Mark Fowler as diocesan Chancellor in March 2024
· Anne Lim as editor of Top Centre in early 2024
· Matt and Emily Goldman, who departed from the Cathedral for ministry in Cairns at the end of 2024
· Christos Kastaniotis from the prison chaplaincy at the end of 2024 as he and Jazz returned to Melbourne
· Rev Ruth Walton as Dean of Anglican students at Nungalinya and Lee Walton as diocesan Property Manager at the end of 2024, noting also their huge commitment to looking after the church of St Francis’, Batchelor. Happily the Waltons are remaining in the Territory for a while longer and Ruth will continue to co-ordinate the Leadership Pathways portfolio. Lee has also been nominated for the position of diocesan Treasurer and we will vote on that at synod
· Rev Yulki Nunggumajbarr retired from ministry at Numbulwar in October 2023
· Rev Carol Robertson of Ngukurr who was called home to the Lord in December 2024
· Rev Naomi Ireland from her position as Diocesan Children’s Ministry Officer in January 2025
· Chris Nathanael who was called home to the Lord in May 2025. Chris had been a lay leader at Fred’s Pass for many years, had served as Diocesan Treasurer, member of the Property and Finance Committee, member of synod, member of Diocesan Council and was a lay canon of Christ Church Cathedral
· Rev Jesse and Amy Morrison from St Peter’s Nightcliff, were farewelled as they and their boys head to St Andrew’s Hall for training with a view to going with CMS to theological education in Zimbabwe
We will be farewelling:
· Rev Ken Taylor with Terri, after his ten years as priest-in-charge at St Luke’s Palmerston in September 2025
· From chaplaincy with the Royal Australian Navy, Rev Kelvin Harris OAM, who has also been so helpful at St Luke’s Palmerston when not away at sea. Kelvin and Cassie are anticipating remaining in the Top End.
· Rev Josh Kuswadi and Jo, and their children, after twelve and half years at St Peter’s Nightcliff in January 2026 as they relocate to Canberra where Josh will be the rector of St Matthew’s Waniassa
· And we farewell Alex Pullar who is concluding his service as diocesan Treasurer as he and the family move south.
We give God thanks for all of these people and their commitment of time, energy and skills to the life of the diocese.
Thanks
We also give thanks to God for those who have served on Diocesan Council and who must consider whether to stand for re-election: Rev Glenys Hannah, Dr Mick Tong and Samuel (Gnano) Kandiah.
Thank you too to the folk of St Luke’s Palmerston for hosting this synod, to those who have contributed to looking after synod reps visiting Darwin and to those who have catered with meals for our meeting.
A huge thanks to the diocesan staff who have made all the arrangements for synod, especially Martha Stewart, Marie Fitzgerald, Mary Martin and Simon Koefoed. If only synod reps knew how much work they have all put in.
Personal
One of the unusual events for Annette and me since the last synod was going on long service leave for ten weeks around October to November 2024. For most of that time we were embedded in a small countryside village parish in East Sussex south of London in England. I was able to preach, lead services and do some pastoral visiting, and we also both participated in schools ministry, evangelism groups and the church choir as well as visiting clergy in other parts of the country. It was a really enjoyable and refreshing experience. I am very grateful for our diocesan Administrator (and Archdeacon) Simon Koefoed for looking after the Diocese while we were away. From everything I hear, he did an outstanding job.
In the first half of last year I engaged in a 360 review of ministry, in which about 30 contributors participated. I found that to be a very helpful process. In almost every area, my own self-assessment closely aligned with the participants who were providing feedback. The process has laid out definite areas for growth, and I have been receiving coaching help in these, as well as my regular professional supervision.
It is important to record for synod some of my ministry commitments outside the diocese. Apart from speaking at the CMS summer conferences earlier this year as I mentioned, I am participating in the Sydney University Evangelical Union annual conference in July this year, as I did last year; I am on CMS’s Federal Council, the national Anglican Safe Ministry Commission, and am currently the president of the NT Council of Churches.
I continue to be so grateful for Annette’s support in all my ministries. She is even willing to provide feedback on my sermons when she gets to hear them.
Again, welcome to synod, when we reach it. In the meantime, I hope you will join me in prayer that God will continue to give us the privilege of serving him here in this beautiful Territory.
Greg Anderson
July 16, 2025
[*]In 2021 in the Territory, 16.9% said they were Catholic and 3.7% said Uniting Church.