Australia: Fresh offensive as Anglicans fail on conversions
Linda Morris Religious Affairs Reporter
September 18, 2007

THE great mission of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, to convert 10 per cent of Sydneysiders to its "Bible-based" churches has fallen short of its target and only recruited 5000 adult converts in the past five years.

Far from being discouraged, the Archbishop has announced a fresh $1.8-million offensive to stir the spirit of the city's unchurched, including gospel giveaways, a meet-and-greet campaign in supermarkets, shopping centres, clubs and prisons, and support for a television campaign to promote Jesus to Australians.

In his annual address to the synod, Dr Jensen conceded, at the midpoint of the diocese's 10-year mission to get Sydneysiders to church, that the church was about to ascend a "mountain". the rest