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Bishop-in-Council to talk about the drought | 18/10/2006
Our Bishop in Council meets today and we have a number of important issues to discuss. The first one is the drought. I doubt whether we have faced a challenge more shaping of the diocese than the drought. It has been going on for a decade now and many of our faith communities are nearing the limits of their ability to manage. The real challenge for us is to accept that the drought is the concern of all of us. It may be a remote community in the north west that is battling with drought but they are all a part of our single diocesan family. That truly is the meaning of Church. If we do not feel pain when they hurt then we have failed in our call to live out the gospel and we cannot claim to be disciples.