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A day trip to Gladstone: Australia 2016 (Nov. 11)

       For our first official day in Adelaide, we spent the day outside of Adelaide. Australia was kind enough to give Sharon permission to drive during our time here, and we had to take advantage of the chance to meet even more people!  Meeting members in Gladstone We drove through what a local described as South Australia’s serious farmland to a town called Gladstone. There, we met John Stead, bishop of the huge geographical district of Willochra (it’s approximately 90 percent of South Australia, to be exact). This diocese serves several rural communities in South Australia and heads up the coast from Gladstone in the general direction of the mammoth state that is Western Australia.  We returned to Adelaide in time for the opening of Churches of Christ annual conference. Paul and Sharon were interviewed as part of the general program of the evening, and all three spent the remainder of the evening making connections with local church leaders a...

Arriving in Adelaide: Australia 2016 (Nov. 10)

       We were on the road again today, this time by bus. After a conversation with the Horsham Church of Christ leadership team, Simon saw us off at the bus station for our five hour trip through the golden countryside. Sharon and Sarah were also pleased to see their first wild kangaroo through the bus window as we crossed the border between the states of Victoria and South Australia. Tomorrow starts our first official day in Adelaide, and we’ll be busier still this week!  Sharon and Paul walk through the Glenelg neighbourhood.