Life isn't just about work and the pursuit of worldly wealth, and all their vanity of vanities ...
Since 2019, Linda and I, along with a team of 10 to 12 volunteers, have dedicated at least 40 hours each year from our time at Arc Australia Consulting to run Alpha at St Patrick's Church (Church Hill, Sydney).
What is Alpha?
Alpha is an 11-week interactive series that helps others explore life, faith, and meaning. Globally, Alpha has transformed many lives.
It's a 'prosperous' endeavour, dear friends!
In fact not only running Alpha, we continue sharing our gift of time and treasures of knowledge with our Alpha friends and team -- who represent the Australian society's rich tapestry of multi-cultural and -professional backgrounds as well as diverse generations. We develop and conduct inspirational workshops, retreats, and even watching movies -- not just for entertainment, but to nourish our hearts and minds.
We give the best that is in us: For it is in giving that we receive. We know not what we receive.
But like an arrow we shot or a song we breathed into the air, so swiftly, our sight could not follow its flight.Only long, long afterward, ... we found again ... as in Henry Longfellow's the Arrow and the Song:
Since 2019, Linda and I, along with a team of 10 to 12 volunteers, have dedicated at least 40 hours each year from our time at Arc Australia Consulting to run Alpha at St Patrick's Church (Church Hill, Sydney).
What is Alpha?
Alpha is an 11-week interactive series that helps others explore life, faith, and meaning. Globally, Alpha has transformed many lives.
It's a 'prosperous' endeavour, dear friends!
In fact not only running Alpha, we continue sharing our gift of time and treasures of knowledge with our Alpha friends and team -- who represent the Australian society's rich tapestry of multi-cultural and -professional backgrounds as well as diverse generations. We develop and conduct inspirational workshops, retreats, and even watching movies -- not just for entertainment, but to nourish our hearts and minds.
We give the best that is in us: For it is in giving that we receive. We know not what we receive.
But like an arrow we shot or a song we breathed into the air, so swiftly, our sight could not follow its flight.Only long, long afterward, ... we found again ... as in Henry Longfellow's the Arrow and the Song:
The Arrow and the Song
I shot an arrow into the air
It fell to earth, I know not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew knot where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from the beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend
I shot an arrow into the air
It fell to earth, I know not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew knot where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from the beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend
We give the best that is in us! For always ...  2024 Alpha Series: Behold! At last, we come to the final of the 11-week Alpha series. Fourteena (L) and Linda (R) of Arc Australia Consulting together with 10 to 12 volunteers run Alpha Series annually since 2019. |  Christmas 2024: Arc Australia Consulting continues to serve the Alpha Friends and Team all year round. |
No words can ever be expressed when the 11-week of our Alpha journey concludes: The immense joy we've given to one another. Only these flowers understand. (Fourteena and Sr Fidelis of St Patrick's Church, Church Hill, Sydney)
 Since 2019, and the Alpha Series continues on ... |  "Finding Purpose and Meaning": A retreat to help our Alpha friends find purpose and meaning by putting order in their lives. |
 LEADERSHIP: Based on a true story, we watch this movie to inspire our Alpha friends and teams develop their heroic leadership amid the rumbling sea of life ... |  REFLECTION: We watch the movie with the eyes of our hearts and reflect what's the most important thing in our lives and be courageous in following the path ... |
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