How many Brisbane Christians do we have in this forum?

I'm in Logan which is not that far from you. Not sure how much use I'd be to you, but if you want to converse by email that's fine by me. For the record I grew up in Newmarket (long time ago now - by the photo you've still got most of your hair!), and I'm familiar with Kedron generally, but not the Catholic Church location, although I've probably passed it at some point.

I think God's got a soft spot for the Salvos incidentally, and maybe the Irish as well, although they're losing it now. They were instrumental in taking the Gospel to much of Europe in the early medieval church, and they took the church with them wherever they went in later centuries, due to English persecution and / or economic hardship.

I'm Catholic, ex Protestant (went to the Wilston Presbyterian Church some years ago - the old pastor was a spiritual father figure to me - it's just down the road from St. Columba's at the top of Kedron Brook Road), married (my wife is Baptist - we were both Protestant when we married), no kids, one dog, hard of hearing, involved with the local St. Vincent de Paul conference, and dabble in the guitar ("dabble" is the correct word - being hard of hearing doesn't help).

I've been members of the Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist Churches (most of the Presbyterian crowd I knew years ago now go to the Wesleyan Church on Queens Road at Everton Hills), and my wife is Baptist as stated, so I have some idea how Protestants think. No real Orthodox "sense" though unfortunately.

Anyway I'll wait till I hear from you if you're still interested in keeping up contact.