Need Help? Hope Shire: Your Guide to Local Community Services

I live in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney, Australia and have done so since I married over 60 years ago. I had a short stint in Melbourne, Victoria when I worked for the pharmaceutical company E.R. Squibb & Sons but came back to the Shire when I joined Abbott Laboratories.

It has always been known to be a “Bible belt” with many vibrant churches. So it was encouraging for me to find out that many of the churches are now working together to serve their community.

On the website http://www.hopeshire.org you will find a list of all the church-run community services available across the Sutherland Shire. You can get in touch with any of these services by utilising the contact details.

Sean Nolan tells the story of how this came about. It started with just two then three churches and now it is a wonderful story of many churches working together to serve the Sutherlans Shire