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Arts, Media & Entertainment
Children Ministry
Church Growth & Resource
Devotion & Christian Maturity
Education, Bible Colleges & Bookstores
Ethics

Families
Healing & Addiction

Leadership
Missions & Evangelism

Politics & Law
Prayer & Intecession
Prison Ministry
Prophesy
Technology
Webcast -TV through Internet
Theology
Women, Men, Marriage, Sexuality
Workplace Ministry
Youth Ministry

Arts, Media & Entertainment
Assist News Service Aids to Special Saints in Strategic Times provides news coverage with journalistic commentary. ****
Australian Christian Channel website of the popular satellite channel beamed through Foxtel and broadcast simultaneously on this website.****
Disciple the Natoins - Resources for Christian musicians & artists, worship leaders, church planters, missionaries, missions, missions educators, pastors, missions committees, believers interested in missions, missionary training centers, etc.

Crosswalk Entertainment - This site offers Christian commentary and information on entertainment and media.
Faith Visual Database of Christian videos available for review & download (charges apply) ***
God TV 24/7 TV programs on the Net. ****
Godspeak one-liner statement for billboards and similar public advertising normally conducted by a group of churches. Love Singapore campaign had featured some of the one-liners in the past. ***
More Than Dreams picks up on the phenomenon of dreams amongst Muslims that brought them on their knees before Christ. Stories told through excellent video re-productions. **** .
SonshineFM Christian radio station seeking to communicate the good news of Jesus in culturally sensitive ways to the people of Western Australia (and the world via Internet).
StreamingFaith.com - "Doing church online. Select your celebrity speakers." to some. For some others that's the only way they can do church (in prisons, hospitals, etc.). There are gems in them even if are not in any of these groups. ***

World magazine - the only major weekly newsmagazine written from a Christian perspective.

Children Ministry
Beth Raham International - BRI is an Australian based non-profit organisation, bringing hope and love to the lives of children, including orphans, youth and families around the world.
Total Family Sunday School (TFSS) is an intergenerational small group system
designed to create a loving context around the content of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
kidsreach@bigpond.com - Childrens ministry bulletin
ww.j-e-s-u-s.net/jesus/kidz - A listing of sites and articles relevant to Christians.
Kids R Us is the Assembly of God's National Children's Ministry Movement. We have a passion to impact children, children's workers,churches and the community across Australia and beyond
Kids Reach - A Non - denominational Christian ministry with a mission to train,
resource, equip and encourage people with a ministry to children

Church Growth & Resource
Australian Evangelical Alliance is a national fellowship of individuals, churches and organisations committed to sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, and applying it to every part of life.
Barna Research Group is a full-service marketing research company located in Ventura, California. BRG has been providing information and analysis regarding cultural trends and the Christian Church since 1984. Founded by author George Barna, their research papers had been quoted often by Christian ministers in sermons and publications.

AcquireWisdom.com is committed to providing Christians throughout the world with proven and effective tools that help every believer apply Biblical wisdom in his or her daily life in a culturally relevant way. Our desire is to see every follower of Jesus bring glory to God by growing to be more Christ-like each day.
Alpha Australia Alpha is an opportunity to explore the validity and relevance of Christianity in the world today, in a friendly, informal, unpressured style ~ usually over a light meal. The basics of the Christian faith are explored with opportunities for discussion and debate on some of those tricky questions of life.
American Official Denomination Website links to all church groups.
Christian Management Association's mission is to 'maximise ministry effectiveness'.
Christian Resource Centre UK have a team of dedicated people, who share the vision of building up and supporting Christians of all denominations, and providing a way of reaching people for Christ over the Internet. The great commission tells us to" Go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28 v 19) and what better way to spread the "Good New" than over the internet
Church Resources Church Resources was launched in 1997 under the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference with the support of the leaders of Religious Orders. The aim was to form a voluntary buying cooperative for telecommunications products and services and other products. In 2001 the Uniting Church and the NSW School Bursars' Association became partners of Church Resources. Church Resources offers are available to all Church and non-profit organisations. ***
Ecclesia Project is committed to proclaiming Jesus Christ as head and
lord of the church, and to assist Christians in the discovery of their New Testament heritage and identity as the body and bride of Christ.

Full Gospel TV web telecast from David Yonggi Cho House Yoido Full Gospel Church.
House Church Central - House Church Central is dedicated to the growing house church movement and
endeavors to provide house churches with a channel for the interchange of ideas; A source for solid, Christian theology; A catalog of resources for the house church.

Kingdom Now - Kingdom Now is a free association of Christians who are organizing around Jesus's proclamation that "The Kingdom of God is at hand."
PastorNET is an Australian, christian resource network on the internet. We offer Sponsored Organisations free web publishing and also provide links to other christian organisations already established on the web.
The National Alliance of Christian Leaders is a facilitating organisation which is involved in networking amongst Christian Leaders in Australia. Those in Christian Ministry through networking, are encouraged, renewed and focused, as they share and hear from others also with the similar visions.
New Creation Teaching Ministry based in South Australia has a simple belief that as the Word of God is taught under the power of the Holy Spirit, then men and women will awaken to the nature of God, His Creation and the humanity He has created. Its teachers,are glad to proclaim the grace of God and His love. This has drawn them into the full materials of the Scriptures and so their Scripture knowledge has enlarged and their spiritual depth developed, and their love of 'the whole counsel of God' increased.

Pastors.com Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven© Life and The Purpose-Driven© Church, seeks to encourage pastors, ministers, and church leaders with tools and resources for growing healthy churches through this website and his e-newsletter. ****
RBC Ministries exists to teach the Word of God so as to lead people of all nations to personal faith and maturity in Christ.
Revival WebRing a collection of revival centred websites link page by Rev Stephen R Jones.
Zerubbabel Ministries - Our vision is to encourage every believer to become participating members within the body of Christ. Utilizing their God given gifts and talents for the glory of God and for the advancement of the
kingdom of God.

Devotion & Personal Growth
1way2god.net
aims to provide the message of the Bible in a simple manner to those who are searching for God, and to provide easy-to-understand, accurate and helpful resources to encourage Christians in their faith. It is a fine example of an individual who have found Christ and wants to share with the world the good news via the Internet. ****
AcquireWisdom.com is committed to providing Christians throughout the world with proven and effective tools that help every believer apply Biblical wisdom in his or her daily life in a culturally relevant way. Our desire is to see every follower of Jesus bring glory to God by growing to be more Christ-like each day.
Christianity101.com help seekers develop a vital and influential life of faith ***
Christianityworks.com aims to help people discover who God is and enable them to grow in their relationship with Him.
Henry Blackaby Ministries."Helping people experience God."
Probe's mission is to present the Gospel to communities, nationally and
internationally, by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love God with their minds and equipping the Church to engage the culture for Christ.
Rejesus has a single focus - it goes to the vary heart of Christian life and
faith - the person of Jesus Christ himself. Its aim is to reach people who have little previous knowledge of Jesus or the Christian faith and to encourage a step or two of faith.
You Are All Brothers details the works of Ian Vincent, an Australian missionary in India.

Education & Training
Australian Centre for Advanced Studies Its objectives are to conduct teaching and research in cross-cultural studies and related fields. It was established especially to provide academic support for evangelical missions.
edresearch.ed.ac.cowan.edu.au/paul/ - This is the home for C. Paul Newhouse, PhD. Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University. Paul is a committed Christian with interests in the impact of technology on
education and how new forms of communication relate to faith issues.
www.christianitytoday.com Leading Christian publication founded by Billy Graham.
www.christianschools.edu.au/new_index.htm - Christian Schools Australia (CSA) was formed to be an association of Australian Christian schools to provide fellowship, support and advocacy for member schools.
Institute of Christian Tertiary Education Ltd
Christian Community Schools Limited
The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)
Openbook Theology The Christian bookstore with a serious theology inclination. Register as a Theology Student with Openbook Theology to receive 8% rebate on all textbooks purchase & student promotion.
HarvestWest Bible College

Ethics
Life Ministries helping build the church featuring writings from Dwight Randall and Andrew Landsdown. Some excellent interviews and thoughtful articles pertaining to WA and Australia. ***
Salt Shakers is dedicated to helping Christians understand the times (2 Chr. 32) and equipping them to be Salt and Light in the community (Matt. 5:13-16) by upholding Biblical values and by being more aware of the ethical issues affecting today's society.

Families
Family World News - To produce a non-profit self-funding Christian newspaper, educating, reporting, religious instructing and alerting concerned citizens with a world wide coverage of events, trends and possible future impact of particular relevance to families, the God-given unit of society, as defined by marriage between a male and a female, blood-line or adoption, and to encourage its readers to participate in applying Biblical principles in all aspects of society, especially Government at all levels, Local, State and National.
Fatherhood Foundation The purpose of the Fatherhood Foundation is to encourage fathers, empower families and educate children
Focus on the Family Australia, the Australian branch of Dr Dobson's Focus on the Family.

Healing & Addiction
Crossroads Community -
Cross Roads Community is a Catholic community headed by Father Paul Baczynski with the objective of aiding people to overcome addictions through spiritual and physical healing, based on a Catholic spiritual framework.
Teen Challenge - Teen Challenge strives to help the 'whole person', not just the substance abuse. The teen Challenge approach is to teach a whole new way of living by addressing family realtionships, work attitudes, self image, peer pressure, temptation, community relationships and avariety of other life skills.
Spiritual Abuse.com - A site dedicated to help victims of spiritual abuse put up by Jeff VanVonderen.
http://soulhunter.net/smoke-1.htm Want to quit smoking? Know someone who would? No drugs involved just the mighty power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God bringing complete victory without side effects.

Leadership
National Alliance of Christian Leaders is a facilitating organisation which is involved in networking amongst Christian Leaders in Australia. Those in Christian Ministry through networking, are encouraged, renewed and focused, as they share and hear from others also with the similar visions.
Phil Baker Leadership Lines From the senior pastor of the leading church in Perth & Leadership Trainer whose seminars are growing in popularity across the business sphere. ****
Paul Borden's Leadership Lines
Marketplace Leader's purpose is to raise up and train men and women to fulfill their calling in and through the workplace and to view their work as their ministry.
www.pastors.com - To encourage pastors, ministers, and church leaders with tools and resources for growing healthy churches.
www.injoy.com - "Developing Leaders that Make a Difference"
John Mark Ministries, "Assisting churches, pastors, leaders and their spouses"

Missions & Evangelism
Antioch Missions/ Chinese Church Support Mission AM/CCSM was set up in 1986 by Ross Paterson to embrace all that God was calling to be done in China today 'since there is a partially open door into China today we need diligently to serve the Chinese Church whilst we can'. Excellent resource base for all are interested in China mission. ****
Advancing Native Missions (ANM) exists for one purpose: to help take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world’s remaining unreached peoples. ****
Alpha Australia Alpha is an opportunity to explore the validity and relevance of Christianity in the world today, in a friendly, informal, unpressured style ~ usually over a light meal. The basics of the Christian faith are explored with opportunities for discussion and debate on some of those tricky questions of life.
Asia Harvest formerly Asian Minorities Outreach is an inter-denominational Christian mission working among Asia's unreached people groups. We work with national believers throughout several countries of Asia, but especially in China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal and northern India. ***
Australian Centre for Advanced Studies Its objectives are to conduct teaching and research in cross-cultural studies and related fields. It was established especially to provide academic support for evangelical missions.
Banabas Fund The Barnabas Fund exists to encourage Christians suffering under pressure harassment
and persecution by encouraging Christians to support them through prayer.
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beliefnet extensive multifaith resource***
Best of the Christian Web For all things Christian on the Web.
Beth Raham International BRI is an Australian based non-profit organisation, bringing hope and love to the lives of children, including orphans, youth and families around the world.
Centre for Mission Direction World mission news and source for FridayFax.
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ChinaAid, Advocacy for Persecuted Christians in China aims explore the truth, to tell the truth and to preserve the truth on the issue of religious freedom in China, particularly focusing on the fate of the unofficial church.****
Christ For Your City - sets out to ‘develop practical ministry tools that can be used in the local church setting. These tools are designed for simple local implementation.
CommunityTransformation.org has been developed by Toowoomba City Church in conjunction with pandamedia to highlight what is going on around about Australia in regards to communities being transformed by God working through His people.
Compass Direct Christian news service dedicated to providing exclusive news, penetrating reports, moving interviews and insightful analyses of situations and events facing Christians persecuted for their faith.
Dick.Staub.com Broadcaster, writer and public speaker blog of practical wisdom***
Disciple the Nations Rsources for Christian musicians & artists, worship leaders, church planters, missionaries, missions, missions educators, pastors, missions committees, believers interested in missions, missionary training centers, etc.
Ethnic Harvest resources for multicultural ministry. Including downloadable Bibles in 140 languages and library resources. ****
Flame Ministries FMI is a Catholic charismatic group based in Perth with the mission to Preach, teach (the Gospel), evangelise, write and develop programmes and Biblical seminars. Write and publish books, magazines, brochures and Gospel tracts. Compose and publish music. Run conferences, rallies, parish and school missions, retreats, youth programmes and leadership training. Form, develop, and conduct Prayer (Praise) meetings and missionary outreaches both in the Catholic Church and to the wider Body of Christ throughout the world.
Global Opportunities Helping Tentmakers disciple the Nations. Christian professionals who work in secular jobs in order to reach another people with the gospel, by integrating work and witness.
Grace Ministries (Perth) To partner with indigenous North Indian ministries in the development of their pioneering works.
International Religious Freedom Report is a publication of US Dept of State compiled by hundreds of human-rights officers at embassies and consulates all over the world. ****
Jews for Jesus is an international organisation of Jewish people who believe that Jesus is the Messiah and Saviour of the world. We exist to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide.
Joshua Project is backed by the Lausanne Forum and loaded with mission related facts and figures. The mission and passion of Joshua Project is to identify and highlight the people groups of the world that have the least exposure to the Gospel and the least Christian presence in their midst. Joshua Project shares this information to encourage pioneer church-planting movements among every ethnic people group.
Link-Zone Australia promotes the work of Christian organisations, churches and individuals around this nation. This is done by providing a central web portal for the various groups as well as by creating websites for ministries and churches around the nation.
Ministryblue provides free, cheap or innovative resources for Australian Christian ministries. Fund raising is through seeking discounts or free things from organizations that are then passed onto the wider Christian community.
MISLINKS - A Web-based Missions Directory was initiated in 1997; it has been developed and maintained by Scott Moreau of Wheaton College and Mike O'Rear of Global Mapping, International. **
More Than Dreams picks up on the phenomenon of dreams amongst Muslims that brought them on their knees before Christ. ****
News.Daylightonline.com Updated local news on over 1000 of the largest cities of the world plus helpful statistics ***
NECF Malaysia - Official website of National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia. ***
Open Doors - Serving persecuted Christians worldwide
Perpectives Study Programme To bring vision for God's Mission into the churches of Australia
Transforming Melbourne is a joint mobement of God's people including Intercessors for Melbourne, Melbourne Pastors Netowkr, Awakening and Churches of many denominations to see our City Transformed and its people Reached for Jesus.
WayMakers helps people pray in the simple power of biblical hope for people throughout their communities, and even for peoples in distant places.
Worldwide Evangelization for Christ
Youth With A Mission Perth YWAM Perth's mission.

Politics, Law & the Community
Australian Christian Lobby is committed to creating an environment where the Christian vote is a highly sought after. ACL is committed to encouraging the 'silent majority' to be the major influence in bringing accountability to Australian politics through the power of their vote. Central to the vision is ensuring that Christians cast an informed vote in local, state and federal elections.
Christian Lawyers Society seeks to :-
1. to promote mutual encouragement and fellowship among Christians
2. engaged in the legal profession;
3. to promote and stimulate consideration of the gospel of Jesus Christ
within the legal profession;
4. to uphold Christian principles in the administration of the law.
infolink.liswa.wa.gov.au:81 - The Infolink Government and Community Information Database provides access to information about State Government and community organisations through-out Western Australia. The database includes comprehensive coverage of State Government agencies and their main regional offices and provides information about State Government programs and services with full contact details.****
Jesus Radicals - Jesus Radicals is a source of discipleship for Christians who know something
is wrong with the church, who are tired of playing power games practiced in the name of Jesus.
Catholic Worker Movement - The aim of the Catholic Worker movement is to live in accordance with the
jusice and charity of Jesus Christ.
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) offers an organized, nonviolent alternative
to war and other forms of lethal inter-group conflict.
Sojourners is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritualrenewal and social justice.
www.tear.org.au "To engage Australian Christians in God's work of justice and compassion whereby the gospel of Christ which is good news to the poor is proclaimed and demonstrated."
Zadok Institute for Christianity and Society is an independent Christian organisation whose mission is to promote informed theological reflection, especially by lay people, on contemporary issues in Australian society, and to bring Christian perspectives into public debate.
One Heart For the Nation Church unity and community transformation has long been on the Lord's agenda. Throughout Australia Christian leaders are responding to the Lord in united prayer and creative Kingdom-minded initiatives.
Christian Democratic Party in Western Australia is part of the nationwide Christian Democratic Party and works in close co-operation with branches established in all other Australian states. The purpose of the party is to bring about a society where ethics, families and children are protected and where Christian values are promoted.
International Reconciliation Coalition (John Dawson) If we have broken our covenants with God and violated our relationships with one another; the path to reconciliation must begin with individual acts of confession.


Prayer & Intercession
The Australian Prayer Network, believed to be the largest in Australia, is linked to the International Prayer Movement through the World Prayer Centre in Colorado Springs. In Australia we have more than 2,600 registered members representing Churches, prayer groups and individual intercessors all over the nation. This is continuing to grow rapidly. We believe the "hidden" membership, that is those who are members of the Churches and prayer groups represented in our network, runs into many thousands more.
Brisbane Spiritual Mapping Project -This spiritual map will be used by intercessors to sustain
widespread/interdenominational and long-term strategic prayer to transform Brisbane for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Catch the Fire Ministries
Christ For Your City sets out to ‘develop practical ministry tools that can be used in the local church setting. These tools are designed for simple local implementation.’

General of Intecession Mike & Cindy Jacobs co-founded Generals of Intercession in 1985 with a mission of developing intercessory prayer strategies to unlock the harvest throughout the nations of the world. Their ministry calling has literally taken the Jacobs’ around the globe as they share God’s love and power.
Joel News: The International Prayer and Revival Bulletin
Lighthouse of Prayer simply spend as little as 30 seconds a day talking to God about their neighbors.What they tell God is positive. The goal is to develop a lifestyle of daily blessing prayer.
National Association of Local Church Prayer Leaders (NAPLC) seeks to serve the local church prayer leader -- pastor or designate -- empowering him or her to initiate, strengthen, and expand the prayer ministries of that
congregation.
Parliamentary Prayer Network - Prayer for government and the Parliamentary process
Prayer Initiative - Site posts prayer alerts with relevant points of intercession. Sponsored by Charisma and Spirit Led Women magazines, both are publication of Strang Communications.
Sentinel Group is a Christian research and information agency dedicated to helping the Church pray knowledgably for end-time global evangelization and enabling communities to discover the pathway to genuine revival and societal transformation.
Transforming Melbourne is a joint mobement of God's people including Intercessors for Melbourne, Melbourne Pastors Netowkr, Awakening and Churches of many denominations to see our City Transformed and its people Reached for Jesus.
WayMakers helps people pray in the simple power of biblical hope for people throughout their communities, and even for peoples in distant places.

Prison Ministries
Prison Fellowship Australia is a non-profit making volunteer-based organisation with one mission: to exhort, equip, and assis the Church in its ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families, and to promote Biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system.
International Network of Prision Ministries-To provide easy access for inmates and their families to get effective help from prison ministries which best serve their needs.

Prophecy
Consuming Fire -Consuming Fire Prophetic Network: host to North Americam prophetic voice Chad Taylor
The Quickened Word -This Website is an on-going collection of quickened Words birthed out of a
living communication with Jesus Christ. The sight attempts to offer positive Words (organized in themes) of comfort, exhortation, and edification to a hurting world. It also offers equipping and training for the body of Christ
Elijah List -Elijah List shares various prophetic words from the United States for prayer and testing.

Technology
Globalchange.com Official website of Europe foremost futurologist Dr Patrick Dixon. (Tedious website entry, otherwise excellent site with well written and presented articles)
ellul.org Jacques Ellul Society, critique of the technological civilisation

internetevangelismday.com to communicate the outreach potential of the Web
iscast.org.au The Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology, is a non-profit company (ABN 11 003 429 338) which studies issues related to Christianity and the scientific and technological thinking in our society. Their aim: To promote an understanding of science, technology and the Christian faith which is consistent with the Judaeo-Christian doctrine of Creation, with its emphasis on God as the God of nature. To promote scholarship, teaching and discussion in this area. To engage in debate on the public understanding of science, technological development and application, and religion in order to inform the Christian church, its members and associated organisations, and to bring informed opinion to the public arena - engaging in public debate in the media and in other secular institutions.
geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/1541/ - The purpose for this Web site is to network together with Christians interested in new technology in general and the Internet in particular and how it can be used to communicate the good news of the gospel. If you want to know more about missions and evangelism on the Net take a look at some of these pages.

Theology
Bible Studies Foundation-
The Biblical Studies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded for the
purpose of distributing sound, evangelical Bible study materials in electronic format so those with small personal libraries or without access to a local Bible college or seminary library, etc., may have access to sound
biblical studies from their home.
Catholic Encyclopedia - The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. Designed to present its readers with the full body of Catholic teaching, the Encyclopedia contains not only precise statements of what the Church as defined, but also an impartial record of different views of acknowledged authority on all disputed questions. In all things the object of the Encyclopedia is to give the whole truth without prejudice, national, political or factional. ****
Lee Strobel Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of nearly twenty books
Life Ministries exists to help Christians deal with difficult moral and theological issues from a biblical perspective. ***
Zerubbabel Ministries - Our vision is to encourage every believer to become participating members within the body of Christ. Utilizing their God given gifts and talents for the glory of God and for the advancement of the
kingdom of God.
Christian Word Ministries
Concerned Christians Growth Ministries Inc (A Christian Counter-cult Ministry) established since 1979 CCGM have been serving families, the church, and the community in relation to cults, extreme religious fringe groups and other contemporary religious movements. Founder and minister, Adrian Van Leen, is a much sort after speaker and commentator both in Australia and abroad.
http://www.pctii.org/index.html -
PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTERNATIONAL - resources on the history and theology of Pentecostalism
Bible Studies Foundation-
The Biblical Studies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded for the
purpose of distributing sound, evangelical Bible study materials in electronic format so those with small personal libraries or without access to a local Bible college or seminary library, etc., may have access to sound
biblical studies from their home.
Project Wittenberg -
Project Wittenberg is home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans.
e-Sword
An individual endeavor by Californian Rick Meyers to utilise the Internet to bless Christiandom with the knowledge of God much like the waters covering the seas. The hugh collection of no-fees based easily downloadable Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries and other time tested Christian literature makes this site a must-see. ****
www.opensourcetheology.net The site has two basic objectives: the first to explore and promote the idea of an open-source theology - is this a viable method for developing an applied, contextualized theology?; the second is to implement the open-source model as part of, and in support of, a renewed mission to the emerging culture.

Christian Theological Research Fellowship - The CTRF is a distinctively Christian research organization in systematic and moral theology, and related disciplines. The society exists to promote and sustain fellowship and truth-seeking (fides quaerens intellectum) in theological reflection upon the Christian faith, within the mainstream of the Christian tradition. We see ourselves as a spiritual fellowship in
service to the Church of Messiah Jesus.
www.perichoresis.org/ - (1) To work out a fresh, clear and liveable Christian theology that is
faithful to the cardinal doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, is most real and practical, and is accessible to the average person.(2) To the share the truth in Jesus Christ with the widest possible audience, through friendships, publications, bible studies, conferences, ministry to ministers and theological education.
www.newcreation.org.au NCTM (based in South Australia)has a simple belief that as the Word of God is taught under the power of the Holy Spirit, then men and women will awaken to the nature of God, His Creation and the humanity He has created. Its teachers,are glad to proclaim the grace of God and His love. This has drawn them into the full materials of the Scriptures and so their Scripture knowledge has enlarged and their spiritual depth developed, and their love of 'the whole counsel of God' increased.
Qur'an - Full translation in English.
Scripture Union, a long-time favourite book and resource centre for Christians. These days SU is placing greater emphasis on training, in particular, amongst the younger people.
Theology Today, a quarterly ecumenical journal of theology, publishes articles on a wide range of classical and contemporary theological issues by many of the finest theologians working today. (Editor's note: from a range of perspectives.)
Christ In You Ministries is a teaching ministry dedicated to explaining to the Christian community the full implications of the reality of the dynamic of the life of the risen Lord Jesus within the Christian.
Godspeak - The youth site of the Bible Society in Australia.
Bible Society in Australia.
BibleGateway.com is a free service for reading and researching scripture online, with advanced searching capapbilities and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible.
www.ethnologue.com - Database of languages spoken throughout the world including information on the number of people speaking the language and Bible translation work done.

Webcast -TV on the Internet
ACCTV -Australian Christian Channel with continuous webcasting

Women & Men Issues
http://www.abuseofwomen.org - Christian women have formed a taskforce against the abuse of women.
The Australian Men's Network exists to: Inspire all men to rise to a greater standard of Christian manhood. Encouraging men to excel in their roles as leaders, husbands, fathers and friends. Challenge men to be outstanding contributors to society by setting an example based upon a value system that will benefit this generation and lay a solid foundation for the next.
Traditional Values Coalition promotes traditional family and marriage values. ***

Workplace Ministry
Beyond the Church developed around John Thwaites's book, The Church beyond the Congregation. The site is closely linked to NewLandscape. *
Christian Jobs Looking for a job? Or if you are an employer are you looking for someone to fill in a vacancy? This site seeks to bridge the potential employees to employers and vice-versa. Though not limited to Christians individuals or organisation the site is promoted amongst Christian oganisation nation wide. Free advertising available till end of January 2003. **
Faith & Workplace Resources
e-commerce website for faith and work resources including books and audio training.
Harvest Evangelism Founded by Ed Silvoso, a worldwide ministry with its beginning in Argentina. Also author of bestseller, "Anointed for Business".***
International Coalition of Workplace Ministries
exists to help you transform your workplace for Jesus Christ and to provide resources, information and networking to other organizations that will help you fulfill your calling in the workplace.****
NewLandscape defines church as the way people live and work rather than one defined simply by the weekly gathering. *

Youth
Godspeak
The youth site of the Bible Society in Australia.
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Perth
Youth Alive WA The headquarters of Youth Alive WA.
Youth Ministries Australia was founded in 1979 by Bill and Faye Hodgson as the youth ministry arm of Campus Crusade for Christ Australia. From the beginning they have served the local church in equipping those with a ministry amongst youth in building Jesus-style church and schools based.
www.phuture.org/about.asp - We acknowledge that a new generation is emerging with a set of values far
different from those who went before. We exist to provoke thought and provide resources for those involved in Christian mission to this emerging generation
.