Tags: Global Care. Charity. Not for profit. Bribie Island. Moreton Bay. Brisbane.
According to Clara Thompson, PA to Senior Pastors of Awesome Church Bribie Island, Global Care Bribie Island is here to stay. “Global Care Bribie Island is a branch of Global Care Australia which is the Social Justice and Disaster Response arm of International Network of Churches: INC. Global Care Bribie Island commenced operations in 2011, the year of the Brisbane Floods,” Clara told The Bribie Islander recently.
“Teams of volunteers from Bribie attended the Lockyer Valley and inner city helping to clean up flooded areas. Since then we have become second responders to Bribie itself during emergency flooding and provide support backup to the SES and Fire Services. Also, we have supplied emergency supplies to North Qld following cyclonic damage and also flood-stricken Logan in 2017,” she said.
So you can see the organisation have already been heavily involved in the wider community. “Our Primary Goal is to continue to support individuals, families, and communities to thrive and assist in growing our island’s social, spiritual and economic health. Our shop is open from 11 am to 12.30pm or until sold out on Wednesdays. Eligible customers must have proof of low income.
The shop is signposted and is located in Toorbul Lane behind the Antique shop,” said Clara. She said a major impact within the community is via the school breakfasts they provide. “During the 2017 year, we served 27,200 nutritional breakfasts at the 3 local schools. We are enduring – this is our 7th year. We have seen our children graduate primary to senior school. Watched them grow.
Rebecca and Van 300(above)
Recent Bushfire feeding the emergency services HR(below)
A small community group like ours has the heart to beat in sync with its growing population and to monitor and guard the weak against social and economic predators,” she said. Clara says that last year they provided 1,178 food parcels, supplied 305 Christmas hampers and gifts, visited Aged Care residences 600 occasions and raised and donated $10,028.80 to local, national and international causes.
“Last year Global Care Bribie distributed gifts to local community agencies, emergency service personnel and members of the general public in appreciation of their contribution to the local community during National Others Week – which is about being kind and generous to people in our community,” she said. “Other organisations have tried and failed. Global Care Bribie Island is here to stay.
Such is our mandated commitment. Ever ready. Ever present. We are always looking for volunteers to help in the schools – must have a blue card or be able to get one.” If you are interested in volunteering to contact Clara Thompson on 3408 0429 or email [email protected]
They can also be found on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Global-Care-Bribie-Island-452294868230163/
We had the pleasure some years ago to be invited to the lunch in Sydney after the awards were made where we could taste all the single blue gold winners then sat down to lunch where the food presented was the same as the judging alongside the double blue gold medal-winning wines and what an eye opener this proved to be. At the other major shows the wines are divided into a number of sections, dry whites, dry reds, the age of the wines, fortified wines, sugar levels, etc.
If you are a buyer who likes to purchase wines with awards on the labels and get the real medal winning wine then if you look for a smaller producer and the chances are they have taken an unlabelled bottle out of stock before putting a show label on or in my case once I received a phone call from a supplier to soak the original label off and put the show label on then take the wine down to the show grounds and leave it there, and yes it won a gold medal!
And…… the nest was in the middle of an access path to the beach….. It would have been trampled over. Luckily it is not one of the most popular access routes. Shows how resilient this species can be and probably why marine turtles survived the dinosaur era. I often wonder if they will survive our era.”
When scientists talk about a further .4° increase in global temperatures, it’s not the local weather forecast – it’s a GLOBAL change, covering not just Australia, but the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas and the Russian tundras – so .4° is of major significance. The last five years have been the world’s hottest on record, and there’s more to come. Meanwhile, warming over the Arctic has pushed super-cold air south, leading to record-breaking winters in Europe and North America – it’s strange to see warming leading to freezing, but when long established conditions change over decades instead of thousands of years, the whole system is thrown violently out of kilter, like gently turning wind-chimes suddenly getting hit by a basketball (or Earth by a meteor, as the dinosaurs discovered).
‘Queensland Protective Cases at Brendale supplied us with these torches which are able to illuminate an object at two hundred metres,’ David said. ‘That will help them find us old people when we wander off without telling anyone,’ he quipped. In thanking the Wallum Action Group for their donation, Clint explained that as one of the tasks performed by the SES involves traffic control, the red or green wand feature of the torches would make them a valuable addition to their equipment. The Wallum Action Group Community Nursery on First Avenue in Bongaree next to the Orchid House is operated solely by volunteers and is open weekdays from 8 am until 11 am.
