All tagged Manning Valley

Up From The Ashes, Hope Will Arise

Radio silence alerted RHEMA FM Manning-Great Lakes station manager, Mark Spencer to the devastating impact of bushfires in Killabakh in November 2019. With the transmitter hut melted, Mark reveals that it was song lyrics which comforted him during the challenging seven weeks to get back on air.

Creativity Key to Connection

Listening to people wrestle with the enormity of their losses in the 2019 bushfires impacted Jenny Hanslow. The crisis compelled her to creatively process her emotions with art, and it is a choice the Zenos Media co-founder hopes to encourage in our community.

A Time Of Grace

Father Peter and Fiona Tinney rallied to comfort people in the aftermath of the devastating 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. Ten years on as bushfires on the Mid North Coast razed homes to the ground, and forced people to flee their properties, they again rallied to team with other organisations to set up Taree Evacuation Centre.

Gifting a Hand Up, Not a Hand Out

The Vinnies cap sits comfortably on Vince Ryan. The Regional President for Vinnies is intimately involved in helping the growing number of people in the Manning and Great Lakes who need a hand up, not a hand out, to pay their bills, put food on the table, and feel a sense of hope.