When I least expected it today, I was phoned by an official within the
Federal Dept. of Ed, Science & Training (DEST for short), with what I
thought was simple confirmation of our federal funding grant of $20,000 per year.
The call was for that reason, but also for another more urgent one: was I able
to meet with a Sun-Herald journalist, in an hour, to talk about Chaplaincy services
in our school?
Well, I guess if I shyed away from publicity, I wouldn't be posting blog entries.
So, the interview & photography was done today at 2pm, in a somewhat 'staged' photo
shoot... where 4 of my Christian leaders posed in an attempt at natural conversation with
me, sat on a wall. Don't know if there will be on anything significant on value of
pastoral ministry; probably just a short one about how National funding will
improve work that's already going on.
Feel free to look it up in this Sunday's Sun-Herald (Sun. 1st July). If the article
is worth re-publishing, I'll post it up here on Sunday night.
Al Hewy
A place to find up-to-the-minute updates on pastoral ministry developments, issues & resources - for people involved in Chaplaincy, Youth Work or supporting those who do... in Government high schools.
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Well if you did check the article, you'd also know why I will NOT be re-publishing it here.
The journalist- Hannah Edwards - after all the positivity and general comments about how the piece may go... wrote quite a different piece altogether!
Headline:
"NSW Schools say no to Chaplains."
Only consolation is that our ministry was not mentioned in any way. As for the content, it is essentially a re-hashing of opinions that have gone on public record several months ago, from the P & C association, and High School Principals Forum (i.e. lobby groups.)
Sorry to lead you this far, with no good outcome at the end. Ah well, that's using the media:
They hold all the cards.
Al
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