1996 – Canberra, ACT at Blackfriars Conference Centre, Watson
Common or garden variety readers, spotted at the 1996 Conference
article from Summer ARENA – December 1996
Rita remembers
Remember – A carload of eager friends, Joy, Ysbrand, Jessika & me, on a hot October spring day, joy, and how beautiful the country was we drove through, Macquarie Pass, Robertson – the first people we met outside Blackfriars – Christopher and Bridget, the greeting we got from Nigel, Vern and oh, Clyde ready with his first challenge. The pouring rain, just when we wanted to leave for dinner, and how Val and Jess directed us twice around the roundabout, and to the opposite end of Watson – in the darkest and wettest night.
The conference built on bonds of friendship, tolerance and a shared vision of brotherhood under the fatherhood of God made during the first South Pacific Conference.
Let’s start this quest for knowledge with first examining what Jesus was supposed to do, before we go on to consider what he actually did do, and how that affects us.
1992 – Elanora, NSW – 2-5 October 1992
Feedback from the October conference has been mostly favorable, providing Vern Verass and his Canberra Study Group with the requisite ‘warm inner glow’. We note that people came from Queensland, Victoria, New Zealand and Hawaii as well as from Canberra region, and together with the large Sydney contingent everyone guaranteed enough variety to keep things interesting. Thank you all for making our debut such a success.
Comments have been particularly favorable about Nigel Nunn’s presentation in which a high standard of clear thought was matched by imaginative presentation. Ken Glasziou’s impromptu scientific input seems, as usual, to have been very favorable received. And Vern’s own presentation struck exactly the right note.
