Tasmania isn’t literally the end of the earth, but you can see it from here, and, like island communities everywhere, Tasmanians are fiercely independent and proud of where they live.
Jenny Cullen defines an island as ‘A place where people are usually nice to each other, nobody’s in a hurry, people stop and talk to each other on the street even in nasty weather, there are no secrets, and life just pretty much works the way it should most of the time. It’s not too complicated’. That’s what it’s like most of the time.
Vision 100
Hobart is Tasmania’s capital city and home to about 200,000 people. Vision 100 (http://www.vision100.org) came into existence in the year 2000. It began as a joint Presbyterian and Reformed ministry to reach the city of Hobart. The vision was to see 10% of the population under the gospel. We worked out that would require 100 new churches in Hobart. Since then the vision has spread to the rest of the state. It has evolved into a network of churches and para-church ministries co-operating together to reach Tasmania for Christ. What unites us is the conviction that the best way to evangelise Tasmania is to multiply churches and ministries. We are a diverse bunch of people. Just recently we have welcomed three new partners to our network:
