New Minister for St Ninian’s
St Ninian’s Uniting Church is getting a new minister, Rev Neil Millar, an
Anglican minister. He is known to the St Margaret’s congregation (having
preached for us) and has been Chris Lockley’s pastoral practitioner supervi-
sor. Neil started at St Ninian’s on 12 November providing long-term supply
ministry.
Neil has worked as a youth minister, parish priest, theological educator and
aged-care chaplain. A walker of ancient pilgrim paths, Neil relishes the feel of
pack and staff, and the road stretching ahead. Neil is co-founder of the Bene-
dictus community, a contemplative church, with his partner Sarah Bachelard.
Sarah is a theologian, retreat leader and priest in Anglican orders, and author
of Experiencing God in a time of Crisis (2012) and Resurrection and Moral
Imagination (2014). Sarah also founded and runs the Benedictus community,
a contemplative church currently meeting in the Holy Covenant Anglican
church at Cook. Having both Neil and Sarah in North Canberra will be good
assets in the inner north.
Congratulations Maddie
The 40 finalists for the prestigious National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019
have been announced - and your editor wasn’t amongst them!
However, the great news is that Madeline Bishop is one of the forty finalists,
who were chosen by the judges from 3,113 entries. The winner will be
announced at the launch of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on
22 February 2019. At the conclusion of the NPG exhibition the NPPP2019 will
head off on a national tour.
Congratulations to Maddie - and to her undoubtedly proud parents Mark (Well
done babe !! xxxx ) and Liz (Oh Maddy so thrilled for you xxxx), grandparents
Jeff and Marge, and all the rest of her family.
St Margaret’s News
11
November 2018