Month: April 2018
Ahoy campers! New Cooroibah manager on deck
SU QLD’s beautiful Cooroibah Campsite on the Sunshine Coast has a new campsite supervisor who is looking forward to welcoming new school, community, and church groups to the 120 acre facility. Bill Howard, who was previously a school chaplain in Clermont and Capella in Central Queensland, took the reins in December and is already busy […]
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From the CEO
I hope you are all enjoying a great start to Term 2! Every school term is important – of course. But this term does take on some extra special significance. In the coming weeks we will learn whether Federal funding for school chaplaincy will continue beyond 2018. I am confident of a positive outcome – […]
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Friends unite for childrens’ wellbeing
The Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing Report found one in seven young Australians aged between 4 and 17 have a mental health condition. That’s 560,000 Australian children and teens. These are the children and young people in our schools, and according to Kids Matter, only one in four get the […]
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Things I Wish I Knew – Ian Kerr
A teacher for more than 35 years before putting down his chalk and duster in 2013, Sunshine Coast LCC chairman Ian Kerr knows firsthand the value of school chaplaincy. Still volunteering at Woombye State School and helping the school’s chaplain, Anne Wells, with a boys ‘shed group’, Ian’s passion for schools and their students inspired […]
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Mansfield SS smashes fundraising target
Mansfield State School’s LCC raised double their fundraising target simply by setting up a page in the Champion Your Chappy portal and sharing it in their network. With an original “ambitious” target of $4500 to build towards their yearly fundraising target for Chappy Verrity Smith at the rapidly growing school, the campaign, held throughout February, […]
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Director’s Update – the latest from Jenni Dobbin
Welcome back! In this edition of Chaplaincy Matters we’ve got lots of great stories, resources, and information for you to kick off Term 2 – plus some news about an exciting new partnership! On May 8, the Federal Government will release its Budget and we will learn then what the next four years of funding […]
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