Monday 28 February 2011

Gold Coast, NSW - Holly Smibert, Riley King and Cameron Munro were all smiles as applause and cheering rang out during the Robina High School 2010 end-of-year awards night at the Gold Coast Arts Centre. These students, youth from the Gold Coast Australia stake (diocese) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were awarded top honours.

Holly Smibert received the junior school dux award, Riley the senior school d...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

COFFS HARBOUR, NSW - What simply began as an idea to help some of the young men from this coastal surfing region prepare for their missions has now turned into a highly-anticipated annual event for the usually small branch of Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales Coast.

19th January 2011

BRISBANE, Queensland – Fourteen hundred youth from Queensland were supposed to be having a youth conference this week at the University of Queensland sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Instead, they have been cleaning and cooking, singing and dancing to make productive use of their time after the floods caused the cancellation of their event.

The university, situated alongside the Brisbane River at St...

20 January 2011

 In October 2009, the youth of the Adelaide Australia Firle Stake travelled to Calperum Station, approximately 280 kilometres north east of Adelaide, to re-enact a pioneer trek.

Calperum Station is a 282,000 hectare property, previously a sheep station, but now a nature reserve. The country is dominated by Mallee bushland (low lying, sparsely vegetated Eucalyptus and Acacia trees), sand and low-lying river valleys.