Drew and Pippa: Tribunal hearing set down for 23 and 24 April 2015

Drew and Pippa: Tribunal hearing set down for 23 and 24 April 2015 By Louise Greentree Hullo Dear Readers and a Happy New Year to you all. A hearing date has been set. After the Deputy President of the Anglican Church Disciplinary Tribunal (Sydney diocese) had been forecasting a hearing of the case to be

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A letter to complainant 1: the death of effective youth ministry

A letter to complainant 1: the death of effective youth ministry By Louise Greentree Congratulations Complainant 1. You have achieved what Satan has been unable to achieve for some generations. You have been a cause of the destruction of opportunities for effective youth ministry in the Anglican Church Sydney diocese. As a youth minister in

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Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child Part 5

Dear readers I have given you four articles examining the proposal that Synod members in Sydney diocese will be asked to vote into ‘law’ the creation of a new ‘offence’ that is called ‘inappropriate pastoral conduct with a child’ with the explanation that the test of whether the pastoral conduct is inappropriate will be the

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Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 4

Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 4 By Louise Greentree Don’t let this happen if you do not want to be targeted by malicious and/or neurotic and/or incompetent parishioners and church workers In Part 1 of this series I wrote the following: If ever we, the supporters

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Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 3

Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 3 By Louise Greentree Don’t let this happen if you do not want to be targeted by malicious and/or neurotic and/or incompetent parishioners and church workers In Part 1 of this series I wrote the following: If ever we, the supporters

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Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 2

Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 2 By Louise Greentree Don’t let this happen if you do not want to be targeted by malicious and/or neurotic and/or incompetent parishioners and church workers ‘If ever we, the supporters and advisers of Drew and Pippa, ever needed confirmation that

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Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod?

  Inappropriate pastoral conduct involving a child – a new ‘offence’ courtesy 2014 Synod? Part 1 By Louise Greentree Don’t let this happen if you do not want to be targeted by malicious and/or neurotic and/or incompetent parishioners and church workers If ever we, the supporters and advisers of Drew and Pippa, ever needed confirmation

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Drew & Pippa: What happened at the directions hearing on 18 September 2014?

What happened at the directions hearing on 18 September 2014? by Louise Greentree Well, after the last directions hearing (see my previous post about this), we had a lot of people praying hard for a calm, competent, professional and appropriate directions hearing this time around. Our prayers were answered – praise and thank God. Our

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About Figtree Anglican Church: This is the House that Rod Built Part 1

    About Figtree Anglican Church This is the House that Rod Built Part 1 ‘Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain’                                                                                          Psalm 127:1 (TNIV) Introduction This is the first of a short series of articles about Figtree Anglican Church, which is located in Figtree, a suburb of Wollongong, just

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What is happening now in the case of the Sydney PSU v Drew & Pippa?

What is happening now in the case of the Sydney PSU v Drew & Pippa? By Louise Greentree It is timely to inform you, dear Readers, where things now stand in relation to the unjustified pursuit of Drew and Pippa by the Professional Standards Unit (PSU) of the Sydney Anglican Church based on the complaints

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