RiseVibes: quick catch up with singer Silvie Paladino
Silvie Paladino is one of Australia’s most versatile and talented entertainers. Silvie has performed throughout Australia, Asia and London’s West End. She has toured extensively with her own show, most recently throughout China. She has sung with symphony orchestras around Australia, featured at major sporting events and performed with international singers and for celebrated theatre composers. She is also...
Encouraging the church to be a restoring and healing community
Article by Dr Allan Meyer. The Lifewell Conference is committed to encouraging the church to embrace its calling as a restoring and healing community. Careforce Lifekeys exists for the same purpose. We are committed to encouraging and strengthening the local church in its function of discipleship that restores. When people come to Christ they bring with them the wounds and collateral damage of life in a broken world. People need...
RiseVibes: quick catch-up with singer-song writer Dan White
Dan White is a self-taught singer-song writer from Adelaide and has been playing and developing his passion for music for 15 years. He crafts songs that tell stories from the heart, evoking deep emotion from those who hear them. His goal in life is to pursue the things that he loves and to encourage others along the way to truly see the beauty that lies within them both in his personal life and through his music. ...
I don’t want to be a “real man”
Article by Scott J Higgins. First published on scottjhiggins.com March 2018, used with permission. There was a great article about Tim Winton in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend magazine recently. Winton was just 5 years old when his father was badly injured in a motor vehicle accident. After he came home from hospital Winton’s father required many weeks of intensive assistance and emotional support. Tim’s mother, who...
Gardens that build communities
Horticultural expert Martin Crabb talks about the worldwide trend back to communal gardening, designing and building a community garden, and the many benefits that flow to those who get involved. It’s becoming difficult to connect with other people in a personal and meaningful way, when we have the advantage of a multitude of electronic social media options at our finger tips. But the humble vegetable patch seems to be providing the...
Authentic Living in an Imperfect World
With author and pastor Karen Wilson. Genuine, original, real, actual, not false, true (as in ‘true to oneself’): just a few of the definitions you’ll find when you look up the word ‘authentic’. Rise Magazine editor Wendy Rush asked Karen Wilson, author of ‘The Inside Story’, what is ‘authentic living’ and why it is important for us to live authentically? Karen explains, “there are many leaders who seem to be flourishing...