RECONCILIATION NEWZ BUZZ
Oct 2026 no 1, Oct 6
Newsletter of Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace
"The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace."
Numbers 6:24-26.
Our heart and prayers go out to the Jewish community in Israel and worldwide on the anniversary of the Oct 7 massacre.
3RD ANNIVERSARY OF OCTOBER 7
On November 2025, Barbara and Norman sadly visited the Nova Sukkot music festival site in Israel where 378 young people, mostly civilians, were cruelly murdered, tortured and raped on October 7 2023. Also, 44 were taken hostage. Hamas, Palestinian Jihad and Gazan civilians videod themselves with glee on the killing spree. The families have put heart-rending memorials to their loved ones all over the site.
We travelled down route 232 which runs parallel to the Gaza Strip. It became the frontline during the Hamas attack with Israelis killed while fleeing. The bomb shelters along the road became scenes of death. We visited Be'eri and Kfar Aza kibbutz who were among the hardest hit communities with immense loss of life, kidnapping and destruction of buildings. Israelis expressed gratitude that we cared.
Overall, 1200 were killed - men, women, children, elderly, Holocaust survivors, mostly civilians and some foreign nationals. Gazans took captive 251 people, 87 of them returned deceased after living in horrible conditions of assault including rape, starvation and being shot. The final living hostages were released on 13 October 2025 and the last bodies returned on 26 January 2026. Israel has been falsely blamed for responding to this attack to rescue its citizens and prevent another massacre.
It his hard to understand how humans can do this to other humans. It is also hard to understand how many people around the world, including in Australia, celebrated this cult of death and still do.
Israel was fighting for its very survival against an enemy who wanted to entirely eliminate it and Jewish people from the face of the earth. But we know God's plan of redemption for the whole of humanity comes through the Jewish people He established as a nation to bring forth the scriptures, Messiah Jesus and the throne Jerusalem on which Jesus will return to sit and reign.
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NEW WEBSITE
We have a new website which we'd love you to check out. We also have a 30th birthday page which we urge you to check out for the video by Ruth Webb of Tabernacle of David Bendigo, and messages by Brian Pickering, National Coordinator of the Australian Prayer Network and Ps Ben Gray, Apostolic oversight and founder of the Australian Prayer Network. Thanks to Tim Jack for all his work on the website over the years and to Isaac who now looks after it.
Also there is a summary of our ministry and photos. You may see yourself there.See it here
NEW HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO FOR OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY
David Jack, who has videod many of our conferences, is putting together a video covering highlights of our 30 years which will premiere on Friday night 16 October so don't miss out. 17th Oct 4pm event will also be amazing.
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NEW SONG FOR OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Colleen Burfitt has written a new song especially for our 30th anniversary called Thirty Years of Grace and it will be released on 16 Oct so do tune into our celebration at 5.30pm Brisbane time in person or by zoom to be blessed by it as it carries a beautiful anointing.
Photo top Ps Shirley Miller, Ps Barbara and Ps Norman Miller. Bottom Colleen Burfitt and Thomas Miller, our musicians and anointed worshippers.
Pinnacle Pocket 100th anniversary
Ps Shirley Miller on the right cutting the 100th anniversary cake with elders at Pinnacle Pocket Bethel church 3.10.26. This is a church that came into revival when pastors from the Welch revival brought it with them in the 1920's. Indigenous pastors and evangelists came out of this revival and church and spread across Australia.
Norman's mother, Ps Shirley, remembers the tarry meetings, miracles and awesome spiritual atmosphere. Over 170, mostly Indigenous Christians, attended the gala lunch and 4 day meetings.
$30 x $30 PEOPLE
We would love to be able to livestream our Saturday services, have internet connection and replace our plastic chairs with sturdier ones. We would also love to be able to have airconditing in the tropics of Cairns with summer nearly upon us again after being in this location for 7 years. So if anyone can help, we would appreciate it. In prayer one day before church, it came to me to ask for 30 people to donate $30 each for our 30th birthday. It woudn't cover what we need but every bit helps. So if the Lord leads you to support what the Lord does through our ministy (thanks in advance)
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Call out to all who have been involved with our ministry for the past 30 years to join us to celebrate our 30th anniversary on 16 Oct 5.30-8.30pm Brisbane time.
Note you can attend in person in Cairns 33 Lake St on 16th and on 17th 4-6pm Brisbane time to celebrate with a wonderful program including a festive meal. Please send in your testimonies and photos of your time with us! Send them here
We are excited that David and Carol Jack from Melbourne will join us in Cairns for the premiere of a highlights video documentary David is making of our ministry.
We will have short messages from worldwide ministries such as Rev Dr George Annadorai from Singapore, Ps Joy & Abraham Tan from Malaysia, Ps Howard & Randi Bass from Beer Sheva Israel, Ps Shlomy & Miriam Abramov from Rishon LeZion Israel, Ps Avi & Chaya Mizrachi from Tel Aviv Israel, and Melodie Greyeyes from Canada.
Also from Australia - Ps Peter Walker, Ps Warwick Marsh, David & Carol Jack, Glen Sebasio, Ps Irwin Ross, Ps Carl Musch, Ps George Fattal,Lilian Schmid, Dianne Taylor, Misha Ricciardello & Jane Michail. Some of the speakers will share on Sat 17 Oct so don't miss out. One of these is Adel Moussa, currently in the Middle East who will share from there.
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NDIGENOUS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INTERNATIONAL ZOOM SEMINAR
TOPIC: What Would William Cooper Do Today Re Antisemitism?
This seminar has been timed because the anniversary of Kristallnacht 9-10 Nov is coming up and William Cooper's protest of Dec 6 is coming up. William Cooper and the Yorta Yorta people knew what discrimination was like and they had the moral clarity to call out antisemitism and stand up for Jewish people, just as many Indigenous people in Australia do today. What would he do if he lived today? And what should we do?
SPEAKER: John Briggs, a Yorta Yorta Aboriginal leader is the great nephew of William Cooper who led a protest against Kristallnacht, the start of the Holocaust in 1938. Cooper led the Australian Aborigines’ League to the German Consulate in Melbourne in protest. John has distinguished himself with being a key player in the formation of Intract Indigenous Contractors in 2010 of which he is director. He sits on the board of South Australian Native Title Services. And he is proud of his great uncle's legacy.
DATE AND TIME: Monday 26 October 6.30-8pm Brisbane or UTC + 10
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Sukkot: Restoration of the Throne and Tabernacle of David by Ps Barbara Miller
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L-R - Rev Dr George Annadorai, Singapore, Ps Joy & Abraham Tan, Malaysia, Ps Howard & Randi Bass & Ps Shlomy & Miriam Abramov, Israel, Ps Peter Walker & Glen Sebasio, David & Carol Jack, Australia & Melodie Greyeyes, First Nations, Canada, Ps Avi & Chaya Mizrachi, Israel & Ps Warwick Marsh, Australia, will speak briefly at our 30th birthday celebration 16 Oct 5.30-8.30pm Brisbane or UTC + 10.
Genocide in Israel? Dr Mike Kelly's Expert Response: IFII Seminar
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The Resilience Blueprint: A Guide for Jewish Parents Raising Confident, Resilient Children in the Face of Antisemitism
By Barbara Miller
If you have a Jewish friend looking for practical tools, encouragement, and a positive path forward for their family, this guide is for you. It will have some tips for other parents too re resilience.
Most importantly, this guide offers hope. It reminds parents and children alike that while antisemitism is real, it does not define who they are. Jewish identity is bigger than prejudice. Jewish history is richer than hatred. And resilience can be learned, strengthened, and passed on to the next generation.
The Four Pillars of Jewish Resilience: Community, Family, Faith & Culture, and Heritage & Contribution
When to seek additional support
Practical ways to build confidence and resilience
Strategies for handling online harassment
How to work effectively with schools
What to do when a child is targeted or excluded
Ways to build Jewish pride without creating fear
How to talk to children about antisemitism at different ages
Inside you'll discover:
Written by Barbara Miller, B.A. (Hons Psychology), Grad Dip Sociology, the guide combines insights from psychology, sociology, Holocaust education, and contemporary experience to help families respond constructively to antisemitism while strengthening resilience, identity, and wellbeing.
A free resource, the Resilience Blueprint provides practical, compassionate, and evidence-informed guidance for parents navigating these difficult questions.
Jewish parents today are facing challenges that many hoped belonged to the past. Children are encountering antisemitism at school, online, in sport, and sometimes even in places where they should feel safest. How do we protect them without frightening them? How do we build confidence instead of anxiety? How do we help them develop a strong Jewish identity in a world that can sometimes feel hostile?
Free download for members of the Antisemitism Support & Action Community.
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Antisemitism Support and Action
Barbara Miller is an author, historian, teacher, sociologist and former psychologist and has just founded a community on Skool.
After the Holocaust of 6 million Jews and others including gypsies, political opponents, homosexuals and the disabled, the world said “Never Again”. However we have seen it again on Oct 7 2023 where 1200 Isaelis were horrifically killed, at Bondi Beach Australia where 15 mostly Jews were massacred and incidents around the world with calls to Globalize the Intifada.
So we now have a situation where antisemitism has grown like a monster that is tearing apart the social fabric of many nations including Australia, destroying the multicultural dream with divisive rhetoric and hateful actions, challenging the values our peaceful democracies were built on and traumatising Jews in Israel and around the world who just want to live their lives in peace and contribute to a better world.
Not only that, antisemitism has morphed from the ancient fear of difference and envy and scapegoating of the Jews for the world’s problems to the race-based worldview of the Nazis during World War 2 that Jews were inferior to Aryans to the current variety.
We now have the shocking inversion of Jews being falsely accused as Nazis and antisemitism masquerading as acceptable, even proud antizionism or criticism of Israel’s policies and right to exist. Not content to genocide Jews they want to genocide Israel from the river to the sea. And globalize their war on Jews.
So now, instead of the Nazis, we have what has been called a “horseshoe” coalition of marxists on the left, fascists on the right and radical Islamists, with little in common except their hatred of Jews and their desire to brand and run the world in their image.
So I have developed this community to:
· Increase awareness and provide educational materials both historic and current
· Create a community where discussion and support can occur
· Provide comfort and support for the Jewish community and others who feel grief at the state of affairs we are in and
· Encourage and equip upstanders or people of principle who want to make a difference in dealing with this scourge of antisemitism. You can join HERE
You can also find a low cost well-researched course here on the Holocaust and Antisemitism. If you would like to know more, see HERE
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