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From the Regional Director - Oceania

Fr Brian Vale SSC

Columban Fr Brian Vale SSC

Fr Brian Vale was elected Regional Director of St Columbans Mission Society for Australia and New Zealand on 23 November 2017. Previously he has been working in Japan and New Zealand and more recently has spent the last 8 years in Christian - Muslim Relations in our Columban Mission Institute in Sydney.

  From the Director - Acculturation

Sep 12, 2018
It is often in times of transition that we are opened to discovering new insights into who God is and a mentor can also learn much from the dialogue and conversations with new missionaries.
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  From the Director - Let your life speak

Aug 06, 2018
By trusting your unknowing, your old standards of progress dissolve and you become eligible to be chosen by new, larger standards, those that come not from your mind or old story or other people, but from the depths of your soul.
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  From the Director - The biggest changes are ahead of us

Jan 25, 2018
It may be a little scary but there is a sense that the biggest changes for our Church and for St Columbans Mission Society are ahead of us. Yet we are all still called to dream and not stay in the security of our enclosures.
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  From the Director - On the move again

Nov 23, 2017
Moving into new surroundings, transitioning into new cultures and taking up new roles are a regular dimension of a missionary’s lifestyle.
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