This year was one in which we celebrated a significant milestone – twenty years of parish life in our church and purpose-built parish centre at West Gosford!  To our great joy, we began the year with our beautiful new iconostasis finally in place and newly consecrated.  Sadly, one of our earliest parishioners were laid to rest early in the year: Tatiana Johansson (+13 February 2024).  We had twelve baptisms – four of adults and teenagers, and the rest of children.  For the first time, we had no midnight Paschal service or early alternative – but a great many people came to Vespers on the morning of Pascha to celebrate then instead.  We continued to pray for an end to the fratricidal war in Ukraine and for peace in the much-suffering Holy Land. In August, on the day of commemoration of Saint Panteleimon, we welcomed Archbishop George to preside at Divine Liturgy – he tonsured Alexey Douriguine a reader, awarded Father James the jewelled pectoral cross, and presented a number of our parishioners and friends with beautiful Certificates of Appreciation.  All the news from 2024 can be read here.  Glory be to God for all things!