The New Age

The Thompsons are a family of five, with Howard, Debra and their three children, Chelsea, Ben and Lance. They are from a part of Pennsylvania not that far from Bryn Athyn and the hub centre of the General Church, and this has significance. Howard was raised in the Episcopalian Church, equivalent to the Anglican Church, …

For the Hurstville Society the Rev Doug Taylor represents a significant part of their history. He shares the distinction of longest serving pastor with the inaugural Minister, Rev Richard Morse, of 17 years, the only difference being that Doug’s pastorate was broken up into several years at different times. He just kept coming back to …

Christopher Hasler was a New Church minister for over fifty years, serving mainly in Britain, but also elsewhere, and for four years between 1960 and 1964, in the Brisbane Society, and for some of those years he served as the President of the New Church in Australia. Older people in the New Church will remember …

Chris was a minister in the New Church in Australia, the first, I believe, to have that distinction of being trained and ordained here. While he was extremely serious about the place and purpose of ministry, he was unchanged by it and must rank as one of the most approachable and friendly people you would …

Les Sheppard passed into the spiritual world in early May this year, after coping with Parkinson’s Disease for many years. A celebration service was held at the Brisbane New Church on Sunday May 18th which Les had asked, whever it came, to be a happy party. So it was, with chips and lollies for the …