“The aim of Face to Face is really to tell people’s stories and to communicate the Gospel into the community through the media and through the medium of people’s stories. So what we seek to do is not so much have somebody on discussing a point of Christian belief or theology (but) to have people on who can tell their story...The key for me as host is that I’d rather have somebody who nobody knows but who’s got a story that just really shows God’s work in their life in a really special, personal way than a high profile person who is well known in the community but who doesn’t have a story at all.”

      Rev Karl Faase, 45, is the senior minister at the Gymea Baptist Church in Sydney and presenter of weekly national TV talk show Face to Face. He spoke with DAVID ADAMS...  | more...|

"Economic stewardship involves careful administration of all that is, including all who are entrusted to us. It implies social safety-nets, conservation and the avoidance of waste. Industry - companies and unions - must find co-operative ways to help protect the creation for the future. We need a new restrained sense of urgency. We need to learn how to rein in our material desires, to take steps backwards in order to be truly economic, in order to reduce our wastefulness...

     "(T)he judicial norm for economic development is addressed to all: both the powerful and the weak, the rich and poor. It is a living norm: 'Let justice roll down like waters as an overflowing stream', said Amos the prophet. He knew how to look after his herds and his sycamore trees in that parched land. Justice has to permeate the whole of society, and somehow those who are rich and those who are poor have to find their responsibilities for each other.”

   In part one of an interview first published in the Fiji Daily Post, Dr BRUCE C. WEARNE talks with Dutch Christian economist, Professor Bob Goudzwaard, about alternative approaches to world economics...  | more...|

   In part two of an interview first published in the Fiji Daily Post, Dr BRUCE C. WEARNE talks with Dutch Christian economist, Professor Bob Goudzwaard, about alternative approaches to world economics...  | more...|

"(Within the church) I don’t think there’s an apathy in trying to work hard or build something or make something work but I think that when it comes to really trusting Jesus, for some reason we have just kind of subtly fallen into the belief that Christ alone is not sufficient; that we need Christ plus other things to help us or we’re not going to get it done; that God alone is not going to be enough to reach this culture. I’m in my forties but I’m finding guys younger than me are really trying to find some kind of method or program or strategy that will help them become the next Hillsong or something like that. God’s not always trying to build a Hillsong or a Times Square church, sometimes He wants the church to be 200 people that are really serving the community faithfully and reaching prisoners or homeless kids. God is very creative and has different callings on different lives."

    Gary Wilkerson, 47, is the son of renowned evangelist David Wilkerson (co-author of The Cross and the Switchblade, founder of Teen Challenge, pastor of New York's Times Square Church - the list goes on). In Australia to preach at a series of conferences with his father, Gary spoke with DAVID ADAMS...  | more...|

“I’ve seen a very obvious trend (in China) and that is the house church movement moving from the semiliterate in the rural areas to the intelligencia - to the professors, to the teachers, to the lawyers, to the doctors, to the entrepreneurs, even to the (Communist) party members.

      "There is another trend and that is from persecution to persuasion - instead of a general attitude of persecution from the government, we are now seeing more and more government agencies almost fully engaging themselves in persuading the house church movement to register with the government. And I think that has to do a lot with the summer Olympics of 2008 and the World Expo of 2010 (to be held in Shanghai)...

      "I also see a coming together of the five major house church movements in China and the church moving from a receiving church to a returning church - that is, the Chinese church is no longer just at the receiving end of mission activities from the outside but are engaging themselves and are in training to bring the Gospel out -particularly to the Muslim world. I see the movement of the Holy Spirit is very, very obvious in China today.”

    Rev Dr David Wang, president of Christian mission organisation Asian Outreach, spoke with DAVID ADAMS during a recent visit to Australia... | more...|

“I have had the privilege of visiting a number of war sites while I’ve been over here in London. I’ve seen Auschwitz, Pozierres, Yper, the Somme and now Gallipoli. Every time they touch me at a very deep and real level. It always amazes me to see such beautiful places that seem so distant from war and bloodshed. And yet man is capable of such horrific violence against man. I’ve been able to see places where my grandfathers fought and were injured. That always trips me out a little. It’s amazing how emotional it can be to go to places like that even though I didn’t know either of them.”

    Ben Holt, 32, is an Australian living in London where he works as a conference organiser for health care professionals on the subject of diabetes. Among the thousands of Australians who recently attended the memorial services at Gallipoli on Anzac Day, he spoke with Sight's SALLY HOLT about his trip... | more...|

"I grew up in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and went to school around the Thomastown area and so I know what it’s like in struggling families. I grew up in an area like that and so I’m keen to help those people. I’ve got a passion for those social issues from there so it’s not just the moral issues that I’m focusing on - I’m certainly very keen to look after those that are struggling. Not only that, it’s to look at the issues of why they’re struggling...”

     Steve Fielding, a 44-year-old Victorian, is the first Senator-elect for federal political party, Family First. He spoke with DAVID ADAMS... | more...|

"It wasn’t as though at 12 years of age I knew I was going to start Oaktree. In fact when I was 12 I actually thought I’d have to be at least 50 years old before I could start something like Oaktree because everyone who I knew who was the leader of a big NGO was about 50 years old. I remember a speaker from World Vision came to my school and she spoke with such passion and conviction...She spoke with such truth and I just thought ‘Man, that’s something that I want to learn more about’. It was also about that time that I developed a faith in God and I guess it was also related to that. I felt, I guess, a real responsibility to also make a difference.”

     Twenty-one year old Melbourne university student Hugh Evans was recently awarded the title of Young Person of the World for 2004. Evans, the founder of youth-oriented humanitarian organisation the Oaktree Foundation, spoke with DAVID ADAMS... | more...|

    Amid news that Yasser Arafat lies gravely ill, DAVID ADAMS spoke with Dr R.T. Kendall, an American Christian writer and preacher who has been praying daily for the Palestinian leader since 1982... | more...|

At 49-years-old, he’s one of Australia’s most respected, not to mention most quoted, Christians. A former mayor, a minister, an anti-gambling crusader and, since March this year, chief executive of World Vision Australia. Named Victorian of the Year for 2004, he’s also the brother of the Federal Treasurer. DAVID ADAMS speaks with TIM COSTELLO, recently returned from a trip to Sudan... | more...|

DAVID ADAMS speaks with Nigel James, steering group chairman of 04theCity, a church-led Welsh group organising events celebrating the centenary of the Welsh Revival... | more...|

After several years out of the public eye, world-renowned songwriter Geoff Bullock, 48, has returned to the limelight and is rewriting many of his earlier works for a new album. He spoke with DAVID ADAMS and LLOYD HARKNESS... | more...|

Now his country’s foreign minister, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta spent more than 20 years travelling the world and urging nations to remember the plight of the Indonesian-occupied East Timor. Now, following formal independence in May 2002, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient is busy grappling with the challenges of rebuilding one of the poorest nations on earth. In Sydney recently to address a dinner hosted by Christian charity fundraising organisation, forceten, Dr Ramos-Horta spoke with DAVID ADAMS...| more...|

He was the first national director of Youth Alive and now lives in Copenhagen where he heads up a mission to Europe, described by Time magazine as “one of the darkest spiritual places on earth”. DAVID ADAMS  speaks with Mal Fletcher... | more... |

DAVID ADAMS speaks with Jim Wallace, a former brigadier in the Australian army and now the executive chairman of the Australian Christian Lobby...

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LLOYD HARKNESS speaks to professional surfer Glyndon Ringrose about Jesus, his family and, of course, surfing...
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