Pooja Popat
Apr 18, 2024
Pooja led a team of Salvos on a trip to Chicago in 2017 and the Lovely Sue and I went along and found her to be a delightful person to work with and then to travel with as a friend. Originally from Mumbai, she is now a community fundraising specialist with the Salvos based in Melbourne. It's hard not to smile along with...
Time Away from Busy Work
Apr 14, 2024
It's useful to carve out time to reflect and assess what we do and the ways we have before us to innovate and change, but it can be confronting, as we are often comfortable and set in our ways. Kodak didn't do this and lost an opportunity to go digital, but the early church leaders considered carefully how the ways of...
Annie Stonehouse
Apr 11, 2024
Annie Stonehouse is the wonderful president of my local Rotary club and has an inspiring story with amazing achievements and contributions along with significant heartache and struggle. She shares with delightful candour and vulnerability and it will do your heart good to know there are people like Annie in the...
Social work 101
Apr 7, 2024
Old man Shanindar had healed broken bones indicating he was
cared for by his community - the first ever record of social
work.
The early followers of Jesus also set aside resources and manpower
to care for widows, care like this is a hallmark of Christian
faith.
Mark Everitt
Apr 4, 2024
Mark Everitt came to Salvo leadership in his late thirties. He wanted to be a pilot - ended up in pathology work and now heads up the Salvos in Queensland. He is married to Fran and has two children and now lives in a house with a view of the hospital in which he was born!