Lifestyle medicine is an essential skill for Marty Thomson’s ministry in Kempsey. With the town “suffering under the burden of so many preventable diseases,” the key to connecting with the community is pastors working with doctors.

Jacarandas are flowering but will not frame photos of graduates this year as Avondale moves its ceremony away from December so more students can march.

You know those people you feel comfortable with straight away? The down-to-earth and genuine kind? That’s Lindy Jones. She’s also an integral part of a husband–wife ministry with a background in counselling and welfare, a teacher-in-training, and a mother of seven.